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Comics: Irredeemable written by Mark Waid and Peter Krause (Illustrator)
Apr 17th
IRREDEEMABLE (BOOM! Studios 2009) written by Mark Waid and illustrated by Peter Krause with the afterword provided by Grant Morrison. I am posting about the digital edition of this comic book. If you have an iPhone or better yet, an iPad, you can download the first 9 issues via Comixology app (link is to iTunes). The cost
Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson Series), Patricia Briggs
Apr 12th
SILVER BORNE (Ace 2010) written by Patricia Briggs, hardcover list price of $24.99 and is apart of the Agency 5 (links to Diesel ebooks article). SILVER BORNE is the fifth book in an ongoing series featuring coyote shape-shifter and mechanic Mercy Thompson.
The series is told from Mercy’s perspective and is set in the Tri-Cities.
The Darkest Room: A Novel, Johan Theorin
Apr 1st
THE DARKEST ROOM: A NOVEL (Delta 2009) written by Johan Theorin and translated by Marlaine Delargy is the second crime fiction novel that is apart of a loosely connected quartet of books set on the island of Öland. The Swedish title is Nattfåk which translates to “night blizzard.”
Theorin’s first novel, ECHOES FROM THE DEAD (Delta 2008), Swedish
Scandalizing the Ton, Diane Gaston {Guest Review}
Mar 17th
This month, I chose Scandalizing the Ton by Diana Gaston, an author I have read and enjoyed before. Events from a previous book, The Vanishing Viscountess set up the plot, but it’s not necessary to have read it as an early explanation is made.
Lydia, Lady Wexin is very recently widowed and due to the scandalous circumstances surrounding her
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games Trilogy)
Mar 17th
THE HUNGER GAMES (2008 Scholastic) by Suzanne Collins is a YA novel, available in hardcover for list price of $17.99. There are two digital copies available from B&N (Nook) and Amazon (Kindle) for $9.00 at the time of this writing.
THE HUNGER GAMES is the first book in the Hunger Games Trilogy. The story centers around a futuristic
Shift, Rachel Vincent {Guest Review}
Mar 11th
Shift is the penultimate book in the Shifter series by Rachel Vincent. The action picks up shortly after the events of the previous book; the Sanders Pride is still banged up from and in mourning from the attack and its aftermath.
Pride council member Paul Blackwell has arrived to ask that the Pride
The Little Death, P.J. Parrish
Mar 2nd
The Little Death [2010] by PJ Parrish is apart of an ongoing mystery series featuring private detective Louis Kincaid and the story is set in Florida. Out of maybe 8 or 9 titles by the writing team that make up the PJ Parrish pseudonym of Kristy Montee and Kelly Nichol there are only three titles available digitally.
The Black Duke’s Prize, Suzanne Enoch
Feb 24th
Many readers have probably never even heard of this hard to find, out of print title, THE BLACK DUKE’S PRIZE by Suzanne Enoch. You can read the first chapter here.
THE BLACK DUKE’S PRIZE is a slim regency paperback dated 1995 with a teasing excerpt that I read online many years ago that made me go hunt for
Ain’t Misbehaving, Jeanne Grant
Feb 17th
Contemporary romance writer, Jennifer Greene, who currently writes for Harlequin (last I checked), wrote quite a few category romances under the pen name of Jeanne Grant for two now defunct lines: To Have and To Hold which explored life past the marital vows and Second Chance At Love which is self-explanatory.
On the back of each category
The Wrong Man For Her, Kathryn Shay [Guest Review]
Feb 17th
This review is apart of the TBR Challenge 2010 that was established to help readers focus on those buried treasure reads that they’ve yet to discover from their massive tbr piles. The following review was submitted by fellow reader, Senetra. Please, make sure to visit the other participants in the challenge.
Kathryn Shay’s The Wrong Man
I Know It’s Over, C. K. Kelly Martin
Feb 16th
I Know It’s Over by C. K. Kelly Martin (Random House 2008), listed $7.99 for paperback with 272 pages, and is currently available as an ebook with the lowest price of $6.39 at both Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes and Noble (Nook). This was yet another impulsive purchase that I actually finished this time.
I Know It’s Over is
The Plague, Joanne Dahme
Feb 11th
The Plague (Running Press 2009) by Joanne Dahme is a historical fiction, young adult novel. The hardcover contains 272 pages and has a list price of $16.95 with the cheapest ebook price I’ve seen of $9.99 at Amazon (Kindle) and B&N (Nook).
The purchase of this ebook was an impulsive one. I’d read a positive review of it somewhere
The Next Best Thing, Kristan Higgins [Guest Review]
Feb 9th
The Next Best Thing by Kristan Higgins (HQN 2010) is a paperback, 400 pages, contemporary romance. This review was written by fellow reader, Senetra.
*****
Kristan Higgins’ The Next Best Thing features pastry chef Lucy Lang Mirabelli, who has been widowed for almost five years. Her husband Jimmy, also a chef, died in a single-car accident following a trade show, and she
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson [Millennium Trilogy]
Feb 2nd
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage 2009) by Stieg Larsson (author) and Reg Keeland (translator) is the first book in the Millennium Trilogy, set in Sweden.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was the biggest bestseller last year. The original, Swedish title was “Män som hatar kvinnor” which translates to “Men That Hate
Mission Flats, William Landay {Guest Review}
Jan 29th
Mission Flats (Dell 2003) by William Landay is a crime fiction novel that I read and enjoyed several years ago. I recommended this book to Maili some time back and asked her if she read it, would she mind doing a review for me? So, here we are…enjoy.
Missions Flats opens with the narrator’s vivid description of a pregnant woman
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