Quick Updates I apologize in advance for all my readers who looking forward to this week’s review of “Magic Study.” For the past few days, my entire schedule has been largely occupied by college orientation and socializing with friends. Before they themselves head back to college. Septembers sorta like an avalanche of events for me…
Month: August 2009
“OffWorld” Giveaway Results and “Within Temptation” Before I begin my blog post about one of my favorite musical acts (from Holland); let me first announce the winner of this week’s giveaway,which was a free copy of “Offworld” by Robin Parrish. In order to certify a completely fair, unbiased results; I utilized a freeware program called…
There’s a certain combination of elements within a novel that readily intrigues me. That specialized combination’s one of Gothic romance and horror. A Certain Slant of Light begins amazingly, as it pulls us into a story featuring a rogue soul whose psychologically never accepted the idea of death. Due in part to a lingering loneliness…
This month’s CSFF Blog Tour Book:Offworld by: Robin Parrish (Giveaway details below) Christopher Burke and his crew of NASA astronauts are the first human beings to walk on the surface of Mars. Their return to Earth was supposed to be a momentous day. But a surprise is waiting for them there that’s beyond imagining. Safe…
Sypnosis:About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered a reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace, and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s…
Sypnosis:As far as Gabriel Bleak is concerned, talking to the dead is just another way of making a living. It gives him the competitive edge to survive as a bounty hunter, or “skip tracer,” in the psychic minefield known as New York City. Unfortunately, his gift also makes him a prime target. A top-secret division…
HEAR THE CALLING.No one would guess by looking at Tom Nash that he’s extraordinary, and that’s just fine with him. A tall, broad-shouldered jack-of-all-trades from Sawyer, Pennsylvania, Tom has a knack for fixing things. He also hides a secret talent: he hears people’s prayers. Stranger still, he answers them. Maybe it’s because he’s a handyman,…
Today’s one of my “update” posts that details future happenings upon this fairly meager blog. Right now I’m attempting to create a good layout for my blog. Seeing as the hues of black and red might be an immediate detractor for many readers of this blog. If anyone (who even visits this page,) happens upon…
“It Happen In Italy,” provides an interesting array of accounts of how the Italian population defied the horrors of the Holocaust, by not allowing members of the Jewish population to be taken captive by the Nazi’s. Usually when we read of Holocaust accounts, we are bombarded with the evil’s of human beings instead of the…
With the buzz surrounding “Twilight,” as of recent all due to the movie adaptations, it’s quite easy to ignore her other book “The Host.” Truthfully, I once was a Twilight addict, only to be freed by “Breaking Dawn.” For that book made me realize the lack of character development and plot throughout the series. But…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 