Winner!

by Carol2 Comments
Congrats to the winner of  India Black by Carol K. Carr. Natasha J I'll be e-mailing you shortly. I just need your mailing address to pass on to the author. I hope you enjoy the book. For those of you who didn't win, you can always buy it at Amazon, an Indie bookstore, or The Book Depository....
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Looking forward to…

by Carol18 Comments
I am looking forward to actually going on vacation this summer. It's been a couple of years since we've taken off a whole week and gone away. The plan is to head for the Outer Banks in North Carolina, hopefully around Hatteras, but we haven't booked anything yet. The three of us are going down with my mom, my brother and his family. It should be a nice time. Relaxing on the beach, site-seeing, bird-watching, eating, shopping, fishing, kayaking. Any suggestions of things we should do, places we should visit while we're there?...
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Teaser from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

by Carol13 Comments
CeeCee sat down across the table from Tim. It was an incongruous scene, she thought. Formal dining room, crystal chandelier, heavy gold jacquard draperies that  must have cost a fortune, eating pizza on paper plates, planning a kidnapping. (13%, The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain) I'm not to this point in the book yet, but I can still picture the scene. Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers. Purchase at Amazon, an Indie bookstore, or The Book Depository. I purchased my copy and the above is my honest opinion.....
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Wishing for snow.

by Carol11 Comments
  Okay, I'm not really wishing for snow, although it looks like it's in the forecast here for the next few days. I wish I could be snowed in, not have to take Amber to school, not go to work. That won't happen. We'll get a few inches, maybe a two-hour delay and that's about it, but I can dream. If I were snowed in, what could I do. Well, there's plenty of stuff to do around the house: the never-ending dishes and laundry, finish cleaning out the storage room, dusting and vacuuming. But I'd rather do something fun. I could read all day, watch a movie with Amber. Alpha and Omega, which she's wanted to see since before it was in the theaters, is on-demand. Yes, she still loves wolves. I could play the piano. Oh, and I forgot to mention one of the most important things - sleep in. Now, I'm afraid I'm going to regret "wishing for snow." Maybe I...
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The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

by Carol21 Comments
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith All I can say is read this one, but read it all the way through. It's the end that makes it outstanding. Set in Tokyo, the book starts out with a woman, Yasuko, killing her ex-husband to protect her daughter, so we know who the killer is, who was killed and why. Her neighbor, Ishigami, a brilliant mathematician, decides to help her cover up the murder, so we know who her accomplice is but not why he goes to such extremes to protect her. I have to protect them, thought Ishigami. He would never be this close to so beautiful a woman ever again in his life. He was sure of that. He had to summon every last bit of his strength and knowlege to prevent any calamity from happening to her. (pg. 36, ARC) Enter the detectives, a pair of good guys trying to figure out what happened. If it...
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