Why, you ask? Well, I had every intention of doing on this week. I had plans to do one this week, even if I hadn't come up with a topic this week. What I did have was an unread copy of Twilight Fall. Which I read. All Last Night. And Most of this morning. And I'm still not finished. 20 pages. With luck I'll be able to finish and eat supper. Then again there's always tonight. :)
P.S. Yes, it's that good. :)
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
#19!
Twilight Fall is #19 on this week's New York Times Bestseller List for Mass Market Paperbacks, and Lynn aka Paperback Writer can now add NYT Bestselling Author to her list of well-deserved accomplishments. What a birthday present, wouldn't you say?
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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Okay, I admit it- I totally stole this idea from Susan at West of Mars. But I figured our lists would probably end up being completely different, and this way I can support my peeps without having to write 13 book reviews (this week at least- maybe next week). No links, just covers. Go forth and support your local bookstore (Indies are best). And I would just like to add (apropos of nothing except my feelings of impending doom)that Bertha is once again a 2 (just sayin'). 1) Lover Enshrined- J.R. Ward- as if anyone who reads this blog doesn’t know who J.R. Ward is, or haven’t read the series. Seriously though, haven’t read the book yet, but love the series.  2)Undead and Unworthy- MaryJanice Davidson- I must confess, I haven’t read this one, and I do have some catching up to do, but I do enjoy this series. I love reading about Betsy the Vampire Queen and her shoes (even if I don't share the obsession).  3)Murder on Bank Street- Victoria Thompson- Awesome series- set in New York in the late 1800s (when Teddy Roosevelt was Commissioner of the Police).  4)Where Memories Lie- Deborah Crombie- I didn’t even know this one was out, but want to read it (she’s on my autobuy list). A fascinating series of police procedurals set in London, with lots of messy life and relationships included.  5)Nightkeepers- Jessica Andersen- So… book 2 comes out when? And can I get an ARC? I’d say I would trade my cat for one, but psycho might object. *g*  6)Pleasure Unbound- Larissa Ione- Great Book- another book I finished and immediately wanted the next book in the series. And I’m not just saying it because the author gave me a signed arc or because we’re friends.  7)Seduce by the Storm- Sydney Croft- Comes out the end of this month- another great book (I think this is the best of the three- as it should be *g*).  8)Twilight Fall- Lynn Viehl- I haven’t read this yet, but am looking forward to it. I love this series.  9)Omega Games- S.L. Viehl- Comes out in August, but I won a galley copy in a contest on the author’s blog. Great story, great characters. The only bad thing about galleys and arc, you have to wait even longer for the next book.  10)Wicked Hot- Charlene Teglia- Comes out later this month, and by that time I’ll have read it and will post a more in depth review. (Did I mention that Charli sent me an ARC?) *g*  11)Acheron- Sherrilyn Kenyon- comes out in August- I must confess I haven’t been keeping up with the series (I ran out of steam after book 8), but I want this book. Acheron is the reason to keep reading all of the books. The glimpses into his story are just as important as the main story lines, and are a thread through the whole series.  12)Don’t Hex with Texas- Shanna Swendson- OMG- I love this series, I didn’t even know this was out until I was looking for two more books for this list. I guess there’s a trip to the bookstore in my future (big surprise, I know).  13) From Dead to Worse- Charlaine Harris- Another book I missed in my wandering around the bookstore. I love this series. Sookie is the bomb.  The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted! View More Thursday Thirteen Participants |
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Memed
I've been a bad blogger, but actually there hasn't been much to report. The dayjob is driving me nuts (it's a short trip), the Dismal Swamp is still burning and when the wind is blowing our way we get the smoke from the peat fires (Larissa thought I was joking until the winds shifted and blew it all her way), the afternoon heat index was 106. On the plus side, I've been getting caught up on my reading.
The writing retreat was a blast, I didn't get a lot done, but it did get me started writing again, and made me want to write (which is half the battle).
Anyway, I saw this meme at Gabriele's blog and thought I'd give it a shot. Let me know if you do it, too, I'm always interested to see what other people have read.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read six and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (loved this book growing up- reread it regularly)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles– Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving (the only one I haven't read-I think)
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (I prefer the Moonstone)
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (read all six and took them right back to the bookstore)
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – A.S. Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (read it in 4 days- say the musical twice)
The writing retreat was a blast, I didn't get a lot done, but it did get me started writing again, and made me want to write (which is half the battle).
Anyway, I saw this meme at Gabriele's blog and thought I'd give it a shot. Let me know if you do it, too, I'm always interested to see what other people have read.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read six and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (loved this book growing up- reread it regularly)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles– Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving (the only one I haven't read-I think)
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (I prefer the Moonstone)
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (read all six and took them right back to the bookstore)
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – A.S. Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (read it in 4 days- say the musical twice)
Monday, June 30, 2008
I'm Back! (Sort of)
Hey all, I'm back. I spent the weekend at a writer's retreat, and just got back yesterday. The Internet is still on the fritz at home, the Dismal Swamp is still burning and sending it's smoke my way, and the plumbing hasn't been fixed (I'd say it still smells like a barn but I'm rather congested at the moment). But I don't care. It was nice just to be able to sleep in my own comfy bed with my cat sleeping at my feet. I'll try and get my bloody internet back up when I get home from work today, but for now I just wanted to tell you something really wierd that happened. I drove up to Williamsburg and spent the day with friends and then drove on to the retreat. When I unpacked my stuff from the trunk of my car, I noticed that my deoderant had melted. Yup. Pretty bizarre isn't it? I'll talk to you all later. Have a great day and keep cool.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Monday's Poetry Train- in Pictures
Sorry I'm posting so late. I've been rather busy lately. I'm working on revising my second book so I can send it out into the world. I did set up my very own flickr account lately and uploaded some of the pictures from my trip home. I took quite a few pictures at the Biltmore Estate (and think I did a pretty good job) and have posted them here. Hope you like them.
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