Favorite Things of 2009 (Part One) Apologies to all my blog readers for nearly two months of absence. Life swamped me and completely overwhelmed me, restricting my internet activity to answering the most basic emails. For my first post of the new year, I’ve decided to provide a litany of my favorite books,movies,music and television…

CSFF Blog Tour: Haunt of Jackals Review Sypnosis: A decade earlier, Jerusalem’s Undead escaped their tombs in the Field of Blood. One of their group was missing, and he will return with a vengeance, fighting his fellow Collectors for control of a vile book–a blueprint that exploits “six things, no, seven, that the Lord hates,”…

Day one of the “Goth Girl Rising” Blog Tour: Plot Summarry: Time is a funny thing in the hospital. In the mental ward. You lose track of it easily. After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she’s about to find out that while she…

Catching Fire Review. Sypnosis: Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life…

Max Lucado’s Fearless Sypnosis:Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. They’re talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. Fear, it seems, has taken up…

Bran Hambric Review About the Author: Kaleb Nation On the third night of the third month in 2003, KALEB NATION, age 14, suddenly imagined a boy and a banker on a roof, waiting for a burglar to come. From that original idea was born the story of Bran Hambric. The first novel (BRAN HAMBRIC: THE…

It’s Monday And What are you reading this week?is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra. I’ve decided to partake within this event as it illustrates the number of books I’m either reading at…

“Magic Study” Review I apologize to all my subscribers and other committed readers for not fulfilling my aforementioned promise of having this review posted either two weeks ago or this past Wednesday. But I’ve finally come around to finishing the entire book and reviewing it. Sypnosis: Yelena is on her way to be reunited with…

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…

“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…

Well wall constructing is a favorite pastime for some Christians. Take some bricks and resume the precarious operation of piling them around oneself, till one’s completely isolated from other person(s) of the world and the only other presence is oneself. Where’s the aim for this sort of behavior? The fear of ourselves or the corruption…