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December 2006

Off for the Holidays

by Avid Reader on December 22, 2006

I’m not blogging anymore until after New Years. It’s as good a time as any for a break. With that, I will wish you all a good holiday. Travel safely to wherever it is you are going. Have fun. Make memories. Whatever makes you happy. It was crazy busy at work today and I was lucky to make it out alive. Cheers!
  

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Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman. Where does one even begin? I was curious about Mr. Gaiman’s Sandman series as I’m told repeatedly, that’s it’s popular. I had bought  Endless Nights not realizing that it was not the first volume in the series. I rushed back to the store and got a copy of Preludes […]

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Y: The Last Man: Unmanned Vol.1 by Brian Vaughan, Pia Guerra and Jose Marazan, Jr is a rather interesting series. I picked up it on chance. The premise is thus: Yorick Brown is an amateur escape artist and son of a United States congresswoman. His girlfriend is currently traveling in Australia when the world […]

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Man Love. My first. Maybe my last. I just know that I couldn’t have a surfeit of these types of books on a daily basis. Or any erotica that’s m/m,m/f, f/f or whatever. If it entertains, I’ll read it but erotica these days, compose very little of my reading diet. Moving on. I bought this book because the buzz surrounding […]

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I really don’t know what I was smoking to have bought this book when the buzz surrounding it’s release was not good. However, I like to read things for myself and make up my own mind. Yes, readers can think for themselves. I thought: how bad can this book be, I wonder? 

Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann is […]

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Crime novelist, Karin Slaughter, has five books available in her Grant County series, a fictional town set outside  Atlanta, Georgia. The series features Dr. Sara Linton who is the town’s pediatrician and part-time medical examiner. Her ex-husband, Jeffrey Tolliver is the county’s police chief. Jeffrey is an ex-jock and the main attraction to the series for […]

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