Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Opposites Attract Challenge Hosted by: Jen's Book Talk To play just read books that have at least one word in the title opposite to another book title's word. You can only use a book once though; not in 2 different sets. And be sure to use some of these with your other challenges if you can! There are many possibilities and combinations to come up with! Also if you have to; use the authors name as...
May Contain Nuts (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
- Love sucks, says the wee fella as he surfs through the music channels. - Sorry? I look up from my book. - All this music. Why do all these people sing about nothing except love? - Don’t know - I say - It makes the world go round? - That’s ...eh...money. Or sex – he says this word with what he thinks is a leer. Looks more like a pantomime bad guy. - You’re too young to be obsessed...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Harper launches crime website 07.10.09 Graeme Neill writing in The Bookseller HarperCollins has launched a new website for crime fans, offering them exclusive content and news. Killerreads.com officially launched yesterday (6th October) with an extract of Jillianne Hoffman's new novel, Pretty Little Things , which isn't published until February 2010. It also features extracts from Jack Higgins' Sean...
Knitting on the Green (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Long time, no blog. Hoping to catch up a bit this evening, so here's a book review post which has been hanging around forever... A lot of Michael Connolly in this bunch: I think I've read more or less everything he's written now though... Thank you for the days : a boy's own adventures in radio and beyond, by Mark Radcliffe. London: Simon and Schuster, 2009. I loved this book. I'm a fan of Mark Radcliffe...
Katie the Scrapbook Lady (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Some months I get my roundup done early and other months it is more of a challenge. I'm always glad when I get it done though because I know I've done something important that helps me keep better records and that helps me be a better memory keeper. What books and/or magazines did I read this month? I have a HUGE pile of books to read on my nightstand. I spent the month drowning in homeschool reading....
Tote Bags 'n' Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
I own a lot of books. A lot. I don't know how many exactly, but the number runs into the hundreds. It could be the thousands. And most of these are books I've never read. I rarely keep ones I have. I have a small keeper shelf (and only for sentimental value) because I don't reread. I know. Heresy. But once I know how a story plays out and there's no longer any surprise, I don't want to revisit the...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Mississippi novelist Greg Iles brings back Penn Cage, who appeared in two previous novels, for his latest knockout thriller. Iles has a true gift for making his Southern setting into a crucial character in his storytelling. His depiction of Natchez, which is older than New Orleans, rings true: a Southern belle of a city, justifiably proud of its antebellum mansions and Civil War past but struggling...
FOCUS ON BOOKS (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Harper; First Edition first Printing edition (June 9, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0061735868 ISBN-13: 978-0061735868 About the book: Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be....
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
I'm going to a book launch party tomorrow night, and you're invited! Of course, I received my invitation personally from Brent Ghelfi, but he said I could invite anyone I wanted. So, I'm inviting all of you to the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix for the book launch for Brent's new book, The Venona Cable . Here's the invitation, as written by The Poisoned Pen Bookstore. "The Poisoned Pen and Brent...
Want to be a Free Thinker (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Wonderful afternoon. We drove my son Mikey to Harrow School in London for his piano academy, promising to return when his lessons were over to see Vladimir Ashkenzy award their diplomas. On the way up, I obsessively read the Greg Iles thriller I'd started last night, even though reading in the car gives me a terrible headache. Background on Harrow School: Harrow is famous for its many traditions and...
Flesh is Grass (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
I haven’t found a book on the train since the wisely-abandoned Pilger, but as I walked up to my carriage today looking for news I spotted Black Cross, a 1995 novel by Greg Iles, lying on a seat. It wasn’t a book-cross – no serial number. The back cover read: “In January 1944, four people hold the fate [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Hardcover fiction 1. The Defector by Daniel Silva. When a Russian defector disappears, Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, attempts to rescue him. (1 week on list) 2. Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner. Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when the popular one needs the mousy one's help. (2) 3. Swimsuit by James Patterson...
The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Genre fiction - as opposed to nonfiction, graphic novels and picture books - lends itself to enjoyable Kindle reading because when you pick up a book of fiction you don't necessarily expect it to be illustrated. Authors of mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, romance novels and westerns paint word pictures and their readers use their own imagination to picture the scene of the crime or the stare of...
English Reading Material (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
English 5MB Html, Word, Pdf Archive Contents: * Spandau Phoenix (1993) * Black Cross (1995) * Mortal Fear (1997) * The Quiet Game (1999) * 24 Hours (2000) * Dead Sleep (2001) * Sleep No More (2002) * The Footprints of God (2003) * Blood Memory (2005) * Turning Angel (2005) * True Evil (2006) * Third Degree (2007) * The Devil's Punchbowl (2009) Greg Iles first novel, Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
The Devil's Punchbowl, by Greg Iles, $26.99. Best seller Iles' stellar third suspense novel to feature Penn Cage finds the former prosecutor and best-selling novelist serving as the mayor of Natchez, Miss., his hometown. Iles brilliantly creates opportunities for his characters to demonstrate principle and courage, both on a large and small scale, making this much more than just an exciting read. Publishers...
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