Game Giveaway – Rowboat

by Carol24 Comments
A week or two ago, I talked about a fun new card game, Rowboat. I am so happy to announce that, thanks to Moostache Games, I'm giving away one copy. What makes Rowboat so unique? Every hand is different and trump changes at every turn! If you like spades you will LOVE Rowboat! David and I have enjoyed playing it. It's a quick game to learn, especially if you're familiar with other card games, but there is a lot of strategy involved. And aren't the cards pretty? It's for 2-4 players, ages 13 and up. Want to win a copy? I have one copy to giveaway. To enter just leave a comment below by October 19. The random winner will be announced on the 20th. Open to US addresses only. For an extra entry follow @MoosetacheGames on twitter and let me know. Sharing about this giveaway somewhere will also get you an extra entry, just make sure to come back and tell me. Someone asked if...
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Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

by Carol7 Comments
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth Why did I love this book? Not the plot which was, even I have to admit, over the top. A vampire has sworn to protect and follow the orders of the President, this time fighting a modern Dr. Frankentstein type character, who at one point in his long life was an evil Nazi. Was it the characters? Not really. Cade's a vampire fighting against becoming a monster, his new side-kick Zach Barrows is a young political whiz kid who has no idea what he's getting himself into. Both good characters and Zach does show some growth through the novel, but neither are really unique. Is it the lack of a love interest for the sexy vampire? I had hope, really. "I thought vampires were all sex gods with the ladies." Cade looked at him. "What gave you that idea?" "Uh . . . late-night TV, mostly . . ." "Humans are our food. Do you want to have sex with...
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“It may interest you gentlemen to know”

by Carol13 Comments
"It may interest you gentlemen to know," said Foley, speaking with the ponderous dignity of one who is trying to conceal his emotions, "that the object of her affections, the man who has supplanted me in her life, is none other than the gentleman who lived next door—our esteemed contemporary, Mr. Arthur Cartright, the man who made all of the hullabaloo about the howling dog, in order to get me before the police authorities, so that he could carry out his scheme of running away with my wife." Perry Mason said in an undertone to Pemberton: "Well, that shows the man isn't crazy; he's crazy like a fox." (pg. 44, The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner) I actually wasn't planning on reading this one yet, but when I finished Bayou Vol 1 by Jeremy Love last night while waiting for Amber to be done with her piano lesson, this was the only other book I had in my...
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Nobody Has Time for Me by Vladimr Skutina

by Carol2 Comments
Nobody Has Time for Me by Vladimír Škutina, illustrated by Marie-José Sacré, translated by Dagmar Herrmann (Suggested reading level: Kindergarten- Grade 2) Skutina called his story a modern fairy tale, a comment on our hurried lives. Karin is a sad little girl. No one in her family has time to play with her or talk to her. So she heads out into the snowy late afternoon to find Time on her own, sure he must live in the clock tower. She bravely enters the tower through the heavy wooden doors and climbs the old winding stairway. At the top she meets Father Time, actually the clockmaker, who explains that while time never stops, people can make time. When she hurries home right at curfew, her parents ask where she's been and she responds, "In a fairy tale." When Karin was almost ready for bed, her parents asked to hear the fairy tale. "It's about Time," Karin said, "and I'll tell you ... if you...
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