Archive for July, 2010
Adventures on a Road Trip
So, Janis and I headed out Monday morning around 9:30, aiming to get to St. Augustine not too long after 10:30 or so. Wrong. Along about milepost 143 in North Carolina, a very nice Good Samaritan started waving at Janis in the shotgun seat and shouted that we had a tire going flat. Not too [...]
July 21, 2010
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In the Moment
Suzanne Adair writes a mystery/suspense series set during the Southern theater of the Revolutionary War. Her first book, Paper Woman, won the 2007 Patrick D. Smith Literature Award from the Florida Historical Society. In 2009, Camp Follower was a finalist for both the Daphne du Maurier Excellence in Historical Mystery/Suspense Award and the Sir Walter [...]
July 20, 2010
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A New Beginning for Annie
Today, we leave for St. Augustine to move Annie into her new apartment and her new life. Our friend Janis, who’s handy with fixing and hanging and lifting, etc., is riding down with me and we’ll stay till Saturday. We’re staying at the Holiday Inn, right on the beach on Anastasia Island, a one-time splurge [...]
July 19, 2010
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Book Review: Tomb with a View by Casey Daniels
Tomb with a View Casey Daniels Berkley Prime Crime, July 2010 ISBN 0425235513 Mass Market Paperback Pepper Martin does not want her current assignment. It’s the 179th birthday of President James A. Garfield; there is a Garfield memorial at Cleveland’s Garden View Cemetery. Of course, there will be some celebration of this anniversary. Unfortunately for [...]
July 18, 2010
Tags: Berkley, dark fantasy, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
A Grab Bag of Arcs–Ta Da!!
And the winners are— Lynn Barker Steinmayer—Claire de Lune by Christine Johnson (Young Adult, May 2010)—Claire is having the perfect sixteenth birthday. Her pool party is a big success, and gorgeous Matthew keeps chatting and flirting with her as if she’s the only girl there. But that night, she discovers something that takes away all [...]
July 17, 2010
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Einstein’s Tongue–Verse 3 of 1,000,000.
Poetry is great. That’s a little sentence saying just about the same length of meaning. What is so great about it, I’m sad to say, most teenage writers – I partially include myself at times, though not so much today – fail to recognize or have no intention to recognize exactly what it can bring [...]
July 16, 2010
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Book Review: Death Stalks the Khmer by Patricia Harrington
Death Stalks the Khmer Patricia Harrington PublishAmerica, 2001 ISBN 1588513505 Trade Paperback A double killing has taken place in the Cambodian community of a town in Washington. Gathering evidence and information from the community is going to be very difficult, given the reluctance of the Cambodians to talk to the police, so Bridget O’Hern is [...]
July 15, 2010
Tags: foreign culture, mystery, PublishAmerica Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World Vicki Myron with Bret Witter Grand Central Publishing, 2008 ISBN 0446407410 Hardcover Trade Paperback to be released October 2010 Of course, it had been the coldest night of the year when librarian Vicki Myron opened the book depository one morning to find a kitten shivering inside. [...]
July 14, 2010
Tags: animal, Grand Central, library cat, nonfiction Posted in: Full Reviews 2 Comments
Weighing Up Traditional Publishing & Ebook Publishing
Robert W. Walker is a graduate of Chicago’s Wells High School, Northwestern University, and the NU’s Graduate Masters in English Education program. Â Rob has taught writing in all its permutations (“All writing is creative writing but not all writing sings,” he says.) from composition and developmental to a study of the literary masters to creative [...]
July 13, 2010
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Book Review: Murder in Vein by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Murder in Vein Sue Ann Jaffarian Midnight Ink, September 2010 ISBN 0738723118 Trade Paperback Somehow, helping vampires catch a rogue of their own isn’t quite what Madison Rose had in mind when she left Boise for L.A.  Apparently, there is a lot more going on in L.A. than most people realize.  The vampire culture is [...]
July 12, 2010
Tags: dark fantasy, Midnight Ink, mystery, vampire Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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