Review: Hot Six

As previously mentioned, the fifth book in this series ends with such a cliff-hanger I couldn’t not start the sixth book right away… And was told who it was, but also that it happened five months ago, and things really haven’t changed since then. It was a bit of a hair-pulling moment. Still. Evanovich managed Review: Hot Six

Review: High Five

After a bit of a breather on the Stephanie Plum novels, last night I needed to uncramp my brain after a taxing week, and I knew Evanovich’s fare would be just the right kind of brain candy: humor without much meat, and just what I needed for something that wouldn’t keep me up all night. Review: High Five

Review: Journey Across the Four Seas

This is the second Veronica Li book I’ve been asked to review, and it fulfilled all the promise her first title. She describes this as a memoir dictated by her mother and transcribed and translated by herself. Li explains in the prologue that the genesis of the idea came from childhood: One of my fondest Review: Journey Across the Four Seas

Author Interview – Kait Nolan

I’ve discovered an ever-expanding circle of professional authors on Twitter, so when I saw @kaitnolan announcing the release of her latest opus in August, I had to jump on the opportunity to ask a few questions. Without further ado: 1. You blog regularly about your “evil day job”; how did you get sucked into that Author Interview – Kait Nolan

Review: Nightfall in Mogadishu

This comprises the fourth book I’ve been requested to review in the past few months. The author sent a lovely request to review both of her books, and based on details about her journalistic background on her author’s website, I had high hopes for a well-crafted story. Her blurb gives a particularly focused reference on Review: Nightfall in Mogadishu

Review: Red

I first “met” Kait Nolan on Twitter, where she shares wry and self-deprecating tales of home and work life as well as gluten-free cooking experiments under her @kaitonlan handle. Based on reading her blogs, I had to assume she was at least a decent writer, but just hadn’t gotten around to reading one of her Review: Red

Expect the Unexpected

It’s been almost exactly a week now since an eventful family celebration culminated in tragedy: My husband snapped his radius at the Whispering Straits PGA golf course as we took a breather from his niece’s wedding celebration. It’s one of those experiences that’s scary while it’s happening and silly in the retelling: He was walking Expect the Unexpected

Blog Hop

I’ve been discovering that there is a whole, wide world of book bloggers out there in the past few months. This is pretty exciting to me, since typically my reading has been something done in solitude, and only rarely shared. Now I’ve discovered a blogger (hi, Parajunkee!) who is using a “Linky” tool to allow Blog Hop