Bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright covets the rare edition of
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND owned by one of her
fellow shop owners. She visits the book daily, never
expecting the book to become such a contentious item
between the two owners of Brothers Bookshop, Eddie Cox
and his brother-in-law Read more...
Charli Rae Warren doesn't know what to make of it when
she arrives at her father's home early one morning to
find Ava James leaving. Ava is collaborating with the
Book Barn for a literacy drive for the foster care
program, but now Charli suspects her father may Read more...
Eight minutes on a Friday night in July was all it took
to change the lives of a whole community. No one expected
the three teenagers to open fire in the local mall, and
certainly not in the movie theater. Now, the lives of the
survivors are permanently altered as Read more...
If you haven't read the first two books in the Themis
Files series, stop what you are doing and read them
first. ONLY HUMAN is the third book in the Read more...
Asti and Verci Rynax have kicked their life of thievery
to the curb and gone straight. They have their own
business to run and Verci has a wife and child to
support. Unfortunately, all that changes when Holver
Alley burns, destroying almost every business in the area
and leaving them Read more...
Kate Fordham is living a lie. She's taken on an assumed
name in the city of Granada where she lives in fear of
her past finding her. A tiny scrap of paper catches her
eye while she's visiting the Alhambra palaces and she
takes it, intrigued by what Read more...
What does it take to find and kill monsters lurking our
world? A secretive agency has a plan for the tasks, as it
reanimates various individuals who are forced to hunt and
destroy monsters. Saelig Zilch is one of those hunters
and this time he's assigned to the swamps Read more...
Vicki DeVine didn't realize her lodger was one of the
Others until the day she finds Aggie Crowe about to heat
up an eyeball. Unfortunately, the eyeball is the least of
her worries as Vicki has a dead man on her property.
Vicki has been trying to settle in Read more...
The story of the ill-fated travels of the Donner Party
attempting to cross into California in 1846 is one of the
tales that haunt the imagination. Alma Katsu
reimagines this piece of history from a new perspective.
The wagon train sets off smoothly, but soon multiple
misfortunes and mistakes Read more...
Nick Beron isn't initially happy when his girlfriend
suggests they need a change. Hannah Rempe is captivated
by a potential job offer in Hibernia, NY, offering her a
chance to oversee the Edmund Wright Historical House.
Nick has become complacent with their current lifestyle,
but he soon recognizes that Read more...
Charlie St. Clair is pregnant and unwed at the age of
nineteen in 1947. Her parents are horrified and
infuriated, sending her with her mother to have an
abortion overseas. However, Charlie can't stop thinking
about her cousin, Rose, who has been missing in the
aftermath of World War Read more...
The Special Crimes Unit (SCU) is accustomed to unusual
cases but they've never experienced a summoning like
this. Something is calling various psychics to the town
of Prosperity, NC, where their psychic abilities will be
put to perhaps the strongest test of their lives. The SCU
wasn't specifically Read more...
Joe Hill always takes me on strange journeys with
unexpected and sometimes downright disturbing scenarios.
STRANGE WEATHER is no exception as Joe Hill entertains us
with four intriguing new short stories that just might
have you think twice about the events surrounding you.
From a story featuring a magical camera Read more...
Tiger has helped take down two out of the three people
responsible for the plot to kidnap children and test them
with unapproved and generally dangerous drugs in hopes of
giving vampires and wraiths immunity to daylight. Only
one person still remains, Ciara Dream. Unfortunately,
Ciara is aware Tiger is Read more...
Antimony "Annie" Price needs a bit of luck. Fleeing from
the Covenant of St. George after her undercover
assignment took an unexpected turn, she abandons her
family, friends, her boyfriend, and even the Aeslin mice
in hopes to avoid capture. Using an old identity, Melody
West, she applies for a Read more...
What if a house could hold memories of the past? China
Bayles runs the Thyme and Seasons shop in Pecan Springs,
Texas. As a former lawyer, she's enjoying the serenity of
her life outside the courtroom, where she specializes in
herbal lore. She's explored the history of her Read more...
I started reading THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. LONDON with no
knowledge of the real-life characters other than Jack
London wrote THE CALL OF THE WILD and Harry Houdini
performed magic. One of my favorite English literature
teachers taught me to love learning about the authors
behind their great Read more...
The neutrality of the Library is at stake as Librarians
Irene and Kai find themselves smack in the midst of things.
The Queen of the Southern Lands is forced to
quickly find a suitable dragon to replace her deceased
Minister and her challenge for the candidates has the
potential to Read more...
The iconic shower scene in the movie Psycho sends shivers
down the spines of most viewers, but now it's been used as
a cover for murder. A young actress is killed while viewing
the classic movie with a friend and Lieutenant Eve Dallas is
determined to find the murderer Read more...
THE WIFE BETWEEN US is hard to describe without giving
massive spoilers. We have potentially unreliable
narrators describing both the end and the beginning of
marriage to one man, Richard. The point of view switches
between the female characters, all offering their
perspective on Richard and the dissolution of one Read more...
When I was a kid, my brother and I were riding in the back of a pickup truck (this was back in the days when that was considered okay!). My parents were in the truck driving us along a dark, forested area on some small road in the middle of nowhere, SC. My brother and I have overactive imaginations and swore we saw "tree people" staring at us and banged loudly on the window and demanded we all squeeze inside the truck so we'd be safe from the "tree people". We still laugh about it to this day!
I love to travel! My favorite place to travel is somewhere new. This summer we explored Las Vegas and went to the Grand Canyon. I also went on my first ghost tour in Savannah, GA.
Love love LOVE Castiel! In fact, I love just about anyone on Supernatural as that still ranks as one of the best tv shows in that genre imo. And Hellboy... who can't help but love Hellboy just cause!
Those 5 things are so very, very true!! I'm so sorry you couldn't find a way to put the Dooziers on a cruise- even the thought has me laughing like a loon. As for your question, I try to avoid hobby groups other than book clubs but yes, I've been in a book club with an individual that should be thankful the members didn't read a lot of mystery novels or I'm sure they'd have figured out a way to dispose of her permanently LOL!!!
I love vampires, shifters, and all sorts of other supernatural creatures... but a zombie? Oh this is one story I MUST read! Love your first paragraph of this blog as it hooked me.
Why do I read? That's almost like asking me why do I breathe?? I've been reading for as long as I can remember. My parents made sure I developed a love of reading. Anyone else old enough to remember the records that accompanied the children's books?? I had my own little record player and I played all of those little 45s and 33s to death!
I usually try to read a book before seeing the movie. There are a few authors I prefer the movies to the books though, and John Grisham is one of those actually.
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