Month: April 2014

Review of William Peter Blatty’s The Ninth Configuration

Amazon (Kindle Edition)/ Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo Review Written by: Jonathan E. Written by: William Peter Blatty Published by:Tor Books   For those of you unfamiliar with or distanced enough to forget this particular scene in the groundbreaking 1973 horror film The Exorcist, the “up there” to which Regan is referring is the moon. …

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Review of Kate Morton’s House at Riverton

Amazon.com (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo Published by Atria Books-Imprint of Simon Schuster    Book Recommended particularly to fans of rapturous, dangerously compelling BBC dramas- like much the recent series The Paradise or Mr. Selfridge    As I read this book, I kept going back to this fantastic rendition of a song  from the classic British series, Upstairs and…

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“A Bibliophile’s Reverie” Invades Youtube!

After reading yesterday’s rather dense, though hopefully Lestat Book Coven newsletter, you are all now well aware of A Bibliophile’s Reverie‘s recent extension to Youtube. Of course, there are a few other tidbits of information to divulge to you, so that you are not just informed, but have a very lucid idea of exactly what will…

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Lestat Book Coven Newsletter for Week#7

   Unabashedly (or abashedly, depending entirely on my mood) I created a short, somewhat amateurish video to give all my blog readers a glimpse of things to come not just for the Lestat Book Coven, but also for my blog as a whole! Watch the above video, and enjoy my nerdy awkwardness and ineptitude put out on full display….

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Dani Hoots’ Review of The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir

The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir   Amazon (Kindle Edition)/ Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo Book Published by Random House Review Written by: Dani Hoots   The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir follows a man by the name of Mark Watney who has been abandoned on Mars and tries all that he can…

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Review of The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas LLosa

Review written by Jonathan E. Amazon.com (Kindle Edition)/ Barnes and Nobles(Nook Edition)/Kobo Book Published by: Picador Books One of my favorite paradoxes that exists between literature and its readers is literature’s ability  to compel its readers to want to go places to which they don’t really want to go. When I open my brand new…

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Lestat Book Coven Discussion Post #6

Song of the Week: GIF image of the Week: UPDATE FOR LESTAT FANS!!!!: Tonight is our first Live Chat, as a coven, at 8:30 pm. Eastern. Access the chat by clicking here!!! Can’t wait to see you all!  Let’s make Lestat know that we are a serious vampire coven!!! Right now, I am a little bit backlogged,in terms…

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Lestat Book Coven Newsletter Week #6-Assignment Details and Questions

Hi Coven Members- Thank you again for all your unwavering support of this coven. We are now entering the zone of becoming a serious vampire coven, as we enter our sixth week here. One of the things that greatly impressed me was the greater quantity of your thoughts about last week’s discussion questions. In order…

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Review of “The Mapmaker’s War,” by:Ronlyn Domingue

Amazon (Kindle Edition)/ Barnes & Nobles (Nook Edition)/ Kobo  Disclaimer: Atria Books kindly offered me a complementary review copy, in exchange for a fair, substantive review of this story. My own perception of my reading was not influenced in any way, and I am thankful, as always, for Atria Book’s amazing PR work, and the…

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Find the Quirk Books Easter Eggs & Win Free Prizes

Disclaimer: Click the image of the monstrous, cannibalistic rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail GIF  above, if you want to do the Easter Egg Hunt the honest way. For those unwilling to decipher the clues and make logical deductions about where each of the elusive eggs are hidden on the Quirk Books Website, I have quickly…

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