June 2010 Blog Posts (210)

I couldn't put this book down and stayed up way to late reading. I would highly recommend this author and book. Enjoy! Christina

The Deadfall Project - A White-Knuckled Ride of a Novel

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lauren_S._Smith]Lauren S. Smith

Brett James' debut novel, The Deadfall Project, takes you on a…

When it comes to novels you want to read, what is it you are looking for: fast paced action, good characters you can identify with and get emotionally invested in, maybe a good mystery with a few plot twists and turns,

a good romance story thrown in, humor, a really good ending? Well I must say

that the third and final installment to the Heroes of Quantico trilogy has that

and much more.

Am I bummed that the series is wrapped…

Our adventures in San Diego started off with a long flight and a never-ending stand in the line for the rental car. Amy was lucky enough to see a guy attempt to spit tobacco in a bottle that had a cap on it but it was all good when Johnny, a rental car place employee, told me I looked 26 and upgraded us to a 2011 Mustang Convertible. There was no way after that the day could end bad. So even though by the time we got…

Paris, Moi and the Gang: A Memoir…of Sorts

Frances Gendlin…

I saw a post on another blog earlier today that made me consider -- once again -- the importance of a narrator to audiobooks. I have been listening to audiobooks for probably 10-plus years, lured by the idea of taking my mind off the treadmill while I was actually ON the treadmill. It was a fluke, really, that I started with a book I'd already read in print form, "The Crocodile on the…

The typical image of a working author is a slightly deranged person hunched over a keyboard in a lonesome

subterranean room, his haggard face lit only by the cold azure glow

of an unsympathetic computer screen. Between intermittent flashes

of madcap productivity, when characters laugh and cry and cheat and

lie and thrive and die through the mystic conduit between the author’s

fevered mind and the plastic lettered keys his…

Listen to Chapter 1, as read by Michelle Antoine, then post a comment to this blog on what you read to enter a give-a-way to win a $20 Visa gift card. Drawing to be held July 31st, 2010.

Click here to listen to Chapter 1 and leave your…