Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Animals take center stage in these titles, new on bookstore shelves. "Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats" by Bradley Trevor Greive, with photos by Rachel Hale (Andrews McMeel, $19.99, 224 pages): This teaming of clever text with wonderful photos will make dog lovers happy – cat lovers maybe not so much. Backpedaling a bit, Greive "clarifies" that he is "pro-dog, not anti-cat."...
Diary of a Home Executive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Saga, is in my opinion a genius and an inspiration to all new authors. I bet all those agents and publishers who turned her down initially, are now jumping up and down in frustration at their lack of insight and their ignorance of public demand. My favourite authors are Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Michael Crichton, and admittedly I always reach for them first,...
Standing on My Head (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
I got to know Anne Rice through a long email interview with her for the St Austin Review. She was very friendly, and spoke at length about her return to the Catholic faith of her childhood. I first began to read her Christ the Lord series of books, and after our correspondence she kindly sent me Called out of Darkness --her memoir and 'reversion' story. Now she has sent me he latest novel, Angel Time....
Unhyphenated American (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Read so far: 1. The Warrior's Apprentice by LM Bujold 2. Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card [x] [L] 3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (audio) 4. A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt 5. Persuasion by Jane Austen [x] 6. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke [x] 7. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen (audio) 8. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman [x] 9. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Attempt after distracting attempt to move beyond mere entertainment in Dean Koontz's Velocity Dean Koontz - Velocity - United States - Presidential - Government
Unhyphenated American (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
- Do laundry - Read new Dean Koontz book - Make V icons (ABC you still suck) - Pity those working retail
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Koontz's new book dealing with the creation of a new species doesn't quite manifest a miracle. Author - Little Jean - Arts - Literature - Kids and Teens
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Black Friday Cometh, as does... Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Lisa Scottoline, Joseph Wambaugh, J.M. Coetzee, Jim Butcher, Al Roker; Howie Mandel, Phish, Jazz Loft Project... Dean Koontz - Howie Mandel - Al Roker - United States - Shopping
Baby Blue Spider (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
NaBloPoMo Topic #24: "My favorite author(s) is (are)... " Oh, how do I follow up my list of favorite books? I suppose the easy way out of this one would be to simply list the authors I mentioned there because it goes without saying that my favorite authors wrote my favorite books. I could also take the narcissistic way out and simply list all my own titles. Or, I guess I could just name one...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Cubby Greenwich's scathing review of his newest book was only the beginning of the horror. Dean Koontz - Arts - Literature - Horror - Movies
Engadget (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
We have to hand it to Juicy Couture -- a company which we would have thought could never, ever crank out anything that made us think, "hey, that's pretty nice!" Regardless, here it is in the flesh: Juicy Couture's own take on the digital photo frame , and not a glitter or spangle in sight. In fact, we're really digging the gaudy, old-timey gold resin frame, which measures 6.5 by 8-inches,...
The Sci-Fi Gene (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
If you are a Freudian psychoanalyst STOP READING THIS NOW. You have been warned. I’ve just started a new Peter F. Hamilton brick, The Temporal Void. I’ve also just finished a Dean Koontz novel, False Memory, of similar proportions – more about both novels will follow in future posts. I came across an astute comment by fanzine editor Claire Briarley (I can’t link to it! It’s...
Home (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Today, Sam Sifton dumps a single star on Aureole. Make no mistake about it: this is a pan, even though there are many dishes he likes—especially in the more casual front room: Mr. Palmer is a big-business restaurateur, a best seller, the Dean Koontz of the sauté and oven set. It wasn’t always so. In 1988, he was just a brash young chef who had cooked at the River Café, who...
I.E. Lester (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Two more of my reviews are now live on nossa morte. The reviews are a book review of Dean Koontz's Relentless (at http://nossamorte.com/nov09issue/relentless.html ) and a film review of Dead Girl (at http://nossamorte.com/nov09issue/deadgirl.html ) It keeps up my run with the magazine. I've had at least one review in every single issue of this magazine since it started two years ago.
Musings of a Bookish Kitty (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
It is my husband's fault. Or maybe that woman's at the office. Whomever it was, I ended up sick in bed most of last week. I imagine my workmates who suffered me all Monday appreciated my thoughtfulness, however belated. You would think that would be the perfect opportunity to escape into a book. Not me though. I ended up sleeping most of the time, a blob under the blankets with my two cats and dog...
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