Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Book Details Paperback, 340 pages 2000, St. Martin's Paperbacks ISBN: 0312971346 Synopsis Fans of Evanovich's tales of the adventures of Stephanie Plum (Four to Score, etc.), Jersey girl and bounty hunter extraordinaire, have been eagerly anticipating this next installment in the popular series. The good news is that the novel is just as wacky and over the top as its predecessors, and that the disaster-prone...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010 Hosted by Book Chick City Timeline: 01 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010 Rules: To read TWELVE (12) thrillers in 2010 Details: You don't have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront then you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go....
A Book A Week (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Popular fiction is a genre that is distinct from literary fiction, though the boundaries are fluid. I like to think of these categories as either ends of a ruler, with most books falling somewhere between the two ends. A lot of the books I read fall right around the middle of the continuum between popular and literary fiction. For example I put authors like Kate Atkinson, Diane Johnson, and Elinor...
Iron Caisson (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
I am all for spreading the good word about Great Books by Women that Publisher's Weekly Missed in 2009 , but for some reason Guerrilla Girls on Tour (not to be confused with Guerrilla Girls ) published the open-edit WILLA wiki list as their own. And sans link, so readers don't know they can add their own titles. W-e-i-r-d. They tell us they'll give WILLA a shout out tomorrow, but in the meantime, I...
An Arizona Cheesehead's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich My rating: 2 of 5 stars An enjoyable read but I have to admit I want some resolution with the Stephanie/Ranger/Joe thing. In this book, Stephanie and Joe are off so she hangs with Ranger. It just feels like an unending loop - Joe then Ranger then Joe then Ranger... Other repetitive themes - Stephanie's car gets destroyed, Ranger's car gets destroyed after Stephanie...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week Seven Up by Janet Evanovich N or M? by Agatha Christie The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (Review Coming Soon) Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Books I Am Currently Reading Dune by Frank Herbert...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Original TBR Challenge Hosted by MizB's Reading Challenges ** Pick 12 books – one for each month of the year - that you’ve been wanting to read ( that have been on your “ T o B e R ead” list ) for 6 months or longer, but haven’t gotten around to. ** OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 “Alternates” ( books you could substitute for your challenge books, given that...
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...
G D Townshende (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In this post, I talked a little about Janet Evanovich's method of creating characters and also made reference to Robert J. Sawyer's method of creating characters (which he discusses here). Here's what Sawyer said:Psst! Wanna hear a secret? The people in most stories aren't really humans — they're robots!Real people are quite accidental, the result of a random jumbling of genes and a chaotic life....
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Book Details Paperback, 304 pages 1994, HarperTorch ISBN: 0061009059 Synopsis First novels this funny and self-assured come along rarely; dialogue this astute and raunchy is equally unusual. The gutsy heroine introduced here is Stephanie Plum of Trenton, N.J., a recently laid-off lingerie buyer who has no job, no car and no furniture. She does have a hamster, a deranged grandmother, two caring parents...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CLEVELAND, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading global distributor of audiobooks, eBooks, and more to libraries, today announced the 'Most Downloaded Books from the Library' for October 2009. For complete lists, visit www.overdrive.com/mostdownloaded. For the second consecutive month, Dan Brown's international bestseller "The Lost Symbol" was the most downloaded...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Monthly Mixer Mele Hosted by Jen's Book Talk All you have to do is read a book that begins with a letter of each month or read a book that begins with the authors name (first or last name, doesn’t matter). There are 74 letters so you will have to have 74 different books to complete the challenge. Books can however be used to complete other challenges. You don’t have to do the months in...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Book Details Paperback, 352 pages 2000, St. Martin's Publishers ISBN: 0312980140 Synopsis Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's got a lot on her mind. How does cigarette smuggler Eddie DeChooch, a fugitive so geriatric that even the hot-to-trot Grandma Mazur won't go out with him a third time, keep giving her the slip? How did a woman who died of a heart attack end up in DeChooch's garden shed with five...
Grow Wings -- the Journal of Laini Taylor (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
So, how I said there are a lot of great quotes that are unsuitable for Laini's Ladies? Here are a few. Enjoy! "Is that a bullet-proof vest? See, now, that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head." - Janet Evanovich "God created war so that Americans would learn geography." - Mark Twain "Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week The Manufactured Identity by Heath Sommer Storm Front by Jim Butcher Judge & Jury by James Patterson Bled Dry by Erin McCarthy (Review coming) Books I Am Currently Reading Dune by Frank Herbert...
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