Month: September 2015

Top Ten Tuesday – Top 10 Techno-thrillers

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every Tuesday they post a new Top Ten list prompt. This week’s list is a Freebie – whatever list you want! Because today is also the first ever National IT Professionals Day (and I just happen to BE an IT professional), I decided to use technology as the inspiration for my list. Here it is – my Top Ten Techno-thrillers. Some feature modern-day, “we’re-almost-there” technology, and a few are set farther into the future, but all are fast-moving, technology driven stories that I’ve enjoyed. Don’t forget to leave a link to your own post in the comments!

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Feature and Follow Friday 9/11/15

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Book Blogger HopFeature and Follow Friday is hosted by fellow bloggers Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Every Friday they feature one or two bloggers and pose a question for other participating bloggers to answer. It’s a chance to find some new blogs to visit, and gain some new followers in return.

This week’s featured blogs are Romance Dreamland Book Corner and My Random Book Thoughts – be sure to visit them and check out the features on the hosts’ pages.

Now for the Question of the Week:  (Suggested by Becky’s Barmy Book Blog)
Undiscovered talent – tell us about a book you loved but no one else seems to have heard of. It can be new or old, any genre. Let’s spread the love. 

My Answer – Absolutely anything by Fredric Brown! My Dad introduced me to his short stories in The Best of Fredric Brown years ago, and I was hooked. I love his pulp mysteries and his unexpected twist endings. He may not be as eloquent as some writers, but he can sure tell a good story.
The Best of Fredric Brown

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The Importance of Writing Letters – from Blackberry Morning

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lettersHappy Thursday everyone! Today I’d like to share a post from my cousin Sarah’s blog with you. She blogs about living a creative and inspired life, and this post on hand-written letters really made me stop and think. I remember the thrill of getting a letter in the mail when I was younger, and that’s something my two girls don’t experience very often. I think we may make letter writing a family project…. Continue reading →

What are you reading Wednesday – Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

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What are you reading Wednesday – 9/9/15

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by It’s A Reading Thing. To participate, open the book you are currently reading to page 34 (or 34% in your ebook) and answer these three questions.

The Questions are:
1. What’s the name of your current read?

2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a complete sentence. (or two!)

3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

Now for my answers this week…

1. I’m reading book #2 in the Grisha series – Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm (The Grisha, #2)

2. I snatched at the Darkling’s sleeve. “We had a deal. I haven’t done anything. You said – ”
The Darkling looked at me with cool quartz eyes, and the words died on my lips.

3. I have mixed feelings about this one. I would not want to live under the Darkling’s power, but there are places in this world that might offer a peaceful, comfortable life if you could do without the modern conveniences we are used to.

Your turn! Now tell me what you are reading this week, or leave a link back to your post in the comments.

Review – Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

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Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone (The Grisha, #1)Description from Goodreads:

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

The Grisha Series, #1

Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: **** (4 of 5 stars)

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Top Ten Tuesday – Finished Series That I Have Yet To Finish

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every Tuesday they post a new Top Ten list prompt. This week’s list is Top Ten Finished Series I Have YET to Finish. There are a some ongoing series that I’m not caught up with, but this list is those series that are written, I just haven’t finished reading them! Let me know if you see one I should really go back and finish, or leave a link to your own post in the comments.

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Audiobook Review – Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark

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Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark
Narrated by Pyper Down
Palmetto Poison
Carolina Slade #3

Genre: Mystery
Rating **** (4 of 5 stars)

After the Governor’s brother-in-law is charged with possessing and distrusting prescription medications illegally, Slade’s boss asks her to look into the matter. As soon as she starts investigating though, people start dying, and no one seems to want to cooperate with her investigation.

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Cozy Review – Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier

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Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier
Candy Corn Murder (Lucy Stone Mystery, #22)
Lucy Stone Mystery #23

Genre: Cozy Mystery
Rating: *** (3 of 5 stars)

Description from Goodreads: Halloween is coming to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and local reporter Lucy Stone is covering the town’s annual Giant Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There’s the pumpkin-boat regatta, the children’s Halloween party, the pumpkin weigh-in…even a contest where home-built catapults hurl pumpkins at an old Dodge! But not everything goes quite as planned…

This is the 23rd Lucy Stone mystery, but it works fine as a standalone story. You don’t need to have read any of the previous books to enjoy this one.

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Friday Feature and Follow 9/4/15

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Book Blogger HopFeature and Follow Friday is hosted by fellow bloggers Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Every Friday they feature one or two bloggers and pose a question for other participating bloggers to answer. It’s a chance to find some new blogs to visit, and gain some new followers in return.

This week’s featured blog is Newbie Librarians – be sure to visit them and check out the feature on the hosts’ pages.

Now for the Question of the Week: Name a movie you would have loved to read as a book ( That is not a book already obviously) – Suggested by Go Book Yourself.

I would like to have read Jupiter Ascending. I was disappointed in the movie. It wasn’t bad, but I felt like it was lacking in detail and so I tried to find the novel afterwards, thinking it would have more depth. I learned that the movie was not based on a book!

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