Tuesday Teaser – Break No Bones
I found this idea over at Alice Aubrey’s blog Alice’s Restaurant. Alice has a book coming out tomorrow called Moving In. Alice is an excellent writer, so be sure to check it out. I am looking forward to it. I have been following her story, Suzie’s House on her blog.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly book [...]
Book Review #5 – Merle’s Door
Merle’s Door
By Ted Kerasote
Pub. Date: July 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 9781615535170
Hardcover, 416pp
From the author’s website: “Merle and Ted found each other in the Utah desert. Merle was about ten months old, surviving on his own, and looking for a human to hang his [...]
Book Review #4 – Drood
DROOD
By Dan Simmons
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date: February 2009
ISBN-13: 9780316007023
784pp
From the author’s website: “Drood, in the tradition of The Terror, is a unique mix of history, biography, and dark fantasy, but where The Terror dealt with an actual doomed Arctic expedition in 1848, Drood looks at the lives and secrets of Charles Dickens and [...]
Bookreview #2 – Fool
Fool: A Novel
by Christopher Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date: February 2009
ISBN-13: 9780060590314
336pp
From the author’s website: “This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank . . . If [...]
Book Review #1 – Warbreaker
Warbreaker
by Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Pub. Date: June 2009
ISBN-13: 9780765320308
592pp
From the author’s website: “…I’ve always kind of wished that I could write a book that actually focused on what it was LIKE to have to live with all of the expectations of being transformed into a deity. How would that affect a person? What [...]
I’m a Big Chicken Wuss Wuss
The gift from my daughter pictured in the previous post is a pen which makes Doug the winner on the plane of reality but you are all winners for your most creative guesses. The pen is designed so you put your index finger through the vee thus aiding the proper holding of the writing instrument.
If [...]