Archive for May, 2010

Book Review: Maximum Ride #1: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Maximum Ride #1: The Angel Experiment James Patterson Read by Evan Rachel Wood Hachette Audio, 2008 ISBN 160024226X Abridged Audio Book The Flock is a group of six kids who were an experiment from before birth, genetically engineered to have wings.  Led by Max, a fourteen-year-old girl, the six have escaped but are being pursued [...]

May 31, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Our Animal Pals

Nothing more needs to be said… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So, this has to be one of the funniest pictures around—a baby Eastern Screech Owl.  Would you just look at the feet on this critter?  He looks like he could stomp his prey flat in no time, doesn’t he?  And those beady eyes could bore a hole right [...]

May 30, 2010   Posted in: Tales of a Bookseller  2 Comments

Love Lost Twixt Authors and Bookstores

There is a lot of discussion going on these days about the effect ebooks are having on the print book industry and nobody really has any good ideas yet for melding the two all the way down the distribution chain.  The whole ebook thing is still so new and evolving that the print side on [...]

May 28, 2010   Posted in: Tales of a Bookseller  2 Comments

Book Review: Icebound by Dean Koontz

Icebound Dean Koontz Read by Paul Michael Random House Audio, 2007 ISBN 0739341413 Unabridged Audio Book A scientific team in the Arctic icefield is conducting an experiment and has just finished laying sixty explosive charges, scheduled to detonate at midnight, when a completely unexpected tidal wave hits and breaks off a huge piece of ice.  [...]

May 27, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

A Personal Best

Returning guest blogger, Kathleen Delaney, talks about reaching a goal she thought was beyond her and how she’s going to apply the lessons learned to writing. I’m not much for team sports. For whatever reason, football, baseball, all those kinds of sports have never grabbed me. Perhaps it’s because when I was young I went [...]

May 25, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  3 Comments

A Freebie for Three

Apparently, the winners of these older ARCs didn’t want them after all so, if you have an interest, leave a comment with the name of the one you want by May 26th.  I’ll send them to the first commenter for each title. The Unscratchables by Cornelius Kane, July 2009 Crusher McNash is the police force’s [...]

May 24, 2010   Posted in: Tales of a Bookseller  7 Comments

Book Review: To the Bright and Shining Sun

To the Bright and Shining Sun James Lee Burke Hyperion, October 2000. Originally published by Scribner’s, 1970. 9780786889686 Mass Market For a moment he thought of forgetting the bus depot. He had almost fifty dollars in his wallet, and that would be enough until he could find some type of job. [...] There was no [...]

May 23, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

I Am Greying Woman, See Me Read

The other day, the National Post published an essay written by Canadian author Katherine Govier.  I’ve never read any of Ms. Govier’s work—they don’t “fit” my personal preferences—but, in checking her out, it’s clear she is a very highly respected writer. Anyway, the gist of her piece is that older women are readers with a [...]

May 22, 2010   Posted in: Tales of a Bookseller  No Comments

Need a Good Book? Winners Part Two

For reasons unknown to me, some of the ARC winners I announced last Saturday never responded so, as promised, here are the new winners— Jody—Wings by Aprilynne Pike, May 2009 Theresa de Valence—The Unscratchables by Cornelius Kane, July 2009 Darden North—Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater, October 2009 Lillian Porter—The Telltale Turtle by Joyce & Jim Lavene, [...]

May 20, 2010   Posted in: Contests/Giveaways  No Comments

Book Review: Greyhound by Steffan Piper

Greyhound Steffan Piper AmazonEncore, April 2010 ISBN 0982555091 Trade Paperback “Greyhound” opens in the darkest hours of the night. Sebastien can’t sleep and soon, he’ll be leaving. His Mother’s getting married for the umpteenth time and he’s not even invited to this ceremony. Dick, the groom du jour, doesn’t like kids and it’s apparent from [...]

May 19, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  2 Comments