Reader’s Corner: The L Word

by Avid Reader on 07.03.2009

I love you

Does it matter to you if the hero or hero­ine ever say I love you? In Iris Johansen’s REAP THE WIND, the hero never once utters the words but there is no mis­tak­ing that he does. But then I under­stood why he didn’t. He’d just suf­fered major loss and didn’t want to be hurt again.

REAP THE WIND (the orig­i­nal ver­sion and not the rewrit­ten ver­sion) was a fab­u­lous book, btw and I don’t think that it took any­thing away from the rela­tion­ship that he didn’t say the L word. His actions spoke more than any words ever could have done. So, what say you? As a reader, must the hero whis­per the words “I love you” for com­ple­tion or is the phrase highly over­rated? And not the tacked on kind where the hero/heroine say I love you and you’re left trying to figure when that actu­ally happened.

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Remember Theresa Weir, the romance writer? Who wrote some of my favorite sto­ries like Amazon Lilly, Amer­i­can Dreamer and Cool Shade? She also writes very good sus­pense under the name of Anne Frasier, too (Play Dead, Sleep Tight, Pale Immortal).

The Replacement by Anne Frasier: Paranormal Short Story

the replacement by anne fraiserI recently read THE REPLACE­MENT (Kindle ver­sion, $1.00 and Scribd). As short as this story is and accord­ing to the page count on my Kindle app - 22 pages, this was seri­ously good but short. Too short. [click to continue…]

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The Pusher by Ed McBainThe Pusher by Ed McBain (who also wrote as Evan Hunter) is the third book in the 87th Precinct series. The series is told in third person and has a large cast and diverse set of char­ac­ters. In the after­word, the author sums up the premise of the series saying it is about the “con­glom­er­ate hero in a myth­i­cal city.”

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There are, to be truth­ful, a lot of trou­bles with murder — but there’s one in particular.

It gets to be a habit.”

The Pusher” like the others in this series, is set in the fic­tional city of Isola. A high rank­ing cop learns an ugly truth about his son and finds him­self com­pro­mis­ing his job and his prin­ci­ples to pro­tect him.

Detec­tive Lieu­tenant Peter Byrnes gets a call from an anony­mous stranger who tells him that his son is a junkie. Like most hard­work­ing cops, Byrnes hasn’t been around his family much. His wife Har­riet has always under­stood the demands of his job and knows that she is a cop’s wife. [click to continue…]

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Via MangaBlog, the New York Times has posted it’s best­selling graphic novels for the week of June 20th. Not a whole lot of sur­prises there but I am very inter­ested in Grant Morrison’s work. I enjoyed his breath­ing new life into Super­man in “All-​Star Super­man” but haven’t tried any­more of his work. Will have to rec­tify that as his latest from DC Comics, “Final Crisis” sits at the top of the best­seller list for hard­cov­ers. Other titles not men­tioned in the arti­cle but are worth read­ing: Vam­pire Knight, Real, Blood Alone, Vagabond and Mon­ster, to name a few.

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I’d recently read Gear Diary’s arti­cle titled, DRM Rears It’s Ugly Head and It is Ugly which serves to remind us all that as con­sumers we are cut off at the knees when it comes to deal­ing with DRM. I’ve run into it myself and from my expe­ri­ence with it, DRM leaves read­ers feel­ing shafted. It sucks.

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The only way to work around deal­ing with DRM is to buy non-​secured ebooks or break the law and strip it off your­self. Google is your friend. But remem­ber, most of your favorite authors rarely, if ever, release new ebooks in a non-​secure format. [click to continue…]

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REVIEW: Blood Work by Michael Connelly

by Avid Reader on 06.22.2009

Blood WorkRan across Blood Work yes­ter­day after­noon and started reread­ing it after I went look­ing for another book in my library. I just started flip­ping through pages and decided to do a quick reread. I’d read BLOOD WORK a few years ago and enjoyed it fully. In fact, this is _the_ novel that got me hooked on Michael Connelly’s work. [click to continue…]

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This is Senetra’s TBR chal­lenge review. I was remiss in post­ing it on Wednes­day due to real life events monop­o­liz­ing my time but here it is folks.

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my one and only loveThe book I pulled out of my TBR pile for this month is , one of my favorite Kimani authors. It’s an Arabesque novel, a line that was first pub­lished by Kens­ing­ton, then bought by BET, then sold to Har­le­quin and now pub­lished under Kimani Press.

I men­tion this because this book is one of a con­nected series that has been been con­tin­ued through all the sales of the line, and might have dif­fer­ent pub­lish­ers listed. The fam­i­lies involved are the Dev­er­auxs, Cochrans, and maybe some Argonnes, but I can’t say for cer­tain because I haven’t read all the books yet. That said, there are A LOT of people in and out of the story. Some had their sto­ries pre­vi­ously, some will have their sto­ries, and since I’ve read out of order, I’m not always sure who is who, when, or where. [click to continue…]

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iphone 002I am trying to make the effort to post some­thing new every­day or every other day. Just don’t hold me to it if I happen to lapse a bit, ok? Anyway, as I was sit­ting at my desk, brain­storm­ing for a new topic, I found myself star­ing at my Sony Reader and saw that it hadn’t been charged in more than a month. The bat­tery was dead of course from non-​usage.

Today, I charged her up because I remem­bered that I had a book I needed to read on that thing. But you know some­thing? I haven’t been read­ing on my Sony lately. Why? My cell­phone is just so much more con­ve­nient. [click to continue…]

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