Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday...
Top Ten Sequels I’m Dying to Read
Actually, this was a hard top ten list to make. Lately I've started several series, but just haven't kept caught up with them. Most of the books on my list have been out for several years, I just haven't gotten around to reading them. I'm waiting for a few to be published though.
Here they are, in no particular order.
A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Gamache 4) by Louise Penny
India Black and the Widow of Windsor (India Black 2) by Carol K. Carr
Hell and Gone (Charlie Hardie 2) by Duane Swierczynski
Ashes of a Black Frost (Iron Elves 3) by Chris Evans
Black Butterfly (Lucifer Box 3) by Mark Gatiss
Desire Me (Legend Hunters 2) by Robyn DeHart
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) by Tana French
For the Defense (Barbara Holloway 3) by Kate Wilhelm
The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies 2) by Pittacus Lore
Weight of Stone (Vineart War 2) by Laura Gilman
I just started using FictFact to keep track of the series I'm reading- really...
Review: “A Bridge Under Water” by Tom Bissell
I don't know how I feel about "A Bridge Under Water" by Tom Bissell. The writing is descriptive and just captures the newlywed couple in the story perfectly.
The man loved games of all kinds. Obscure board games, video games manufactured prior to 1990, any and all word games, but he also enjoyed purely biophysical games such as rock, paper, scissors—the "essential fairness" of which he claimed to particularly admire. He was , however, miserably bad at rock, paper, scissors, the reason being that he almost always took paper.
Neither the man or the woman is particularly likeable, however. I admire that they are trying, but both seem selfish at heart, and I can't really identify with either. They are on their honeymoon, married after only knowing each other for about four months. They got married because she is pregnant, although that won't admit that's the reason. Bissell portrays the tension in the relationship well. The argument is oer religion, even though neither is...
A Lazy Monday
It's been a lazy Labor Day Monday. I actually slept until like 11:30, decided that lunch was going to be catch as catch can. We did go grocery shoping but I think that's all I've done, well, and dye my hair. We had our cook-out yesterday, although it turned into more of a cook on the grill then eat inside event. It was too drizzly all day, but we had good food and played some board games. It was a nice day.
I haven't done any reading today either, but I did post some things last week.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.
Reviews:
“Housewifely Arts” by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Nekane, the Lamina & the Bear by Frank P. Araujo
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
Other posts:
"Beyond the Peaks" - original flash fiction
I joined the RIP VI challenge
I shared a couple of photos, Wednesday and Saturday
Currently, I’m reading/listening to:
Belladonna in Hollywood by Alex Severin
Spinsters in...
Review: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny is a well-done mystery, plenty of suspects, plot twists, even a traditional denouement, but it's more than that. It's about friendships and envy, about love and jealousy. It's about the characters for me, the mystery is almost secondary.
We're back in fictional Three Pines, an idyllic Canadian city that happily sees more than its share of murder. Really, why do people continue to live in these towns, like Cabot Cove and St. Mary Mead? Luckily for us they do.
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
(T. S. Eliott, The Waste Land)
It's spring, and amid the Easter celebrations, a psychic arrives, a Wiccan actually, and the townsfolk convince her to hold a séance with them in the old Hadley house to rid the town of its evil. Bad idea, obviously. A local,...
RIP VI
It's that time of year again. The leaves are starting to change, the weather's getting cooler. Time to curl up on the couch under an afghan with a cup of coffee and a good book. To quote Carl at Stainless Steel Dropppings, "it is once again time to revel in things ghostly and ghastly, in stories of things that go bump in the night. It is time to trail our favorite detectives as they relentlessly chase down their prey, to go down that dark path into the woods, to follow flights of fantasy and fairytale that have a darker heart than their spring time brethren. To confront gothic, creepy, horror stories in all their chilling delight."
Yes, folks, it's time again for the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Challenge, which runs September 1st through October 31st. It 's a celebration of some of my favorite genres and a couple I don't read often.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Dark Fantasy.
Gothic.
Horror.
Supernatural.
I'm signing up for Peril the First, with the goal of...