• Not entirely a book review, but it is

    I just finished the third book in Lisa Shearin’s SPI files. They are so fun. I read the first one, The Grendel Affair, when it first came out. I bought the second, The Dragon Conspiracy, and then somehow forgot about…

  • Book Review: Four Weddings and a White Christmas

    I received this book from NetGalley. I’ve been in the mood for some light romance and some Christmas reading. I don’t know why. It’s not even Halloween. Maybe it’s because of the recent shooting here in Oregon, and I just…

  • Book Review: Kill Box

    I received this book from NetGalley. Kill Box is a Thriller by Nichole Christoff. Today we’re starting with the description: Hardworking Jamie Sinclair can’t wait for the weekend. She plans to be off the clock and on the road to…

  • Book review: Shadow Fall

    I’m way behind on book reviews. Way behind. I counted. I have at least nine books that I’ve read and haven’t yet written my reviews. Some of the books were really good, some less so, some really less so. I’ll…

  • Book review: Jane Casey’s Hide and Seek

    I received this book from Net Galley. After reading Jane Casey’s The Kill, I was curious about Hide and Seek. I wondered how her writing skills would translate into writing YA, so I was eager to read this book, and…

  • Naomi Novik, Uprooted review

    received this book from NetGalley. And while I’ve seen it referred to as a Temeraire book, it’s not. It comes out May 19th, I think. Uprooted  is a total keeper. It reminds me of books by Patricia McKillip and Robin…

  • Book Review: Alive by Scott Sigler

    First, the caveat. I got this book from Netgalley as an advanced reader copy. This is one of those books that makes you think. It makes you consider what you’d do in the same situation, and it makes you consider…

  • John Hartness is raising hell in the new year

    Hi folks! Happy first day of 2015!! I want to introduce you to someone. Everyone, this is John Hartness. John, this is everyone: John is a writer. A good one. An entertaining one. I downloaded his recent The Black Knight…

  • Saturday, in the park, and also in Costco

    I slept late today. Totally lazy. Let the kids sleep in. Let the dogs sleep in. All were happy. Also, Voodoo managed to eat all his brother’s dinner tonight, for no good reason. There had to be a Costco run…

  • news of one sort or another

    I made it home from Colorado. The teaching was a lot of fun, but exhausting with all that was going on. Sadly, a good friend died on the same day I came home. She’d been fighting cancer for some time,…