About the Book Underemployed by day. Undead by night. Underachieving film theory graduate and vampire Fortitude Scott may be waiting tables at a snooty restaurant run by a tyrannical chef who hates him, but the other parts of his life finally seem to be stabilizing. He’s learning how to rule the Scott family territory, hanging…
Continue ReadingAlright, folks… here’s the deal. I’ve been working part time at a place for a while. Twenty hours a week. It’s been extra income and a chance for this mama to get out of the house. It has also been a good opportunity for me to get used to functioning in society again after my…
Continue ReadingApparently this is the day for lists. I figured I’d post my resolutions for this blog and at the end of the year I’ll see how well I measured up. — 1. Read 150 books. in 2013 I read 178 books. My mental goal is 200, but I’d like to get to 150. We shall…
Continue ReadingI can hear you, my dear reader, saying, “Sarah, I’m not sure if you are drunk or stupid, or maybe both, but this is a BOOK WEBSITE…. and not only that, but a Speculative Fiction BOOK WEBSITE. What’s with the TV?” Honestly, there’s no real agenda here. I don’t watch much TV and usually the…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book It is the dawn of a new age… The Industrial Revolution has begun, factories are springing up across the country, and new technologies are transforming in the cities. But the old ways do not die easy. “I was not a bard or a djeli or an historian or a scribe and I…
Continue ReadingAlright, time to try (again) to catch up on my backlog of books that need to be reviewed. Today I will do two short reviews of some Tor books that have been patiently waiting (for a few months) for some much needed love and attention. Both books are the second installments of fairly popular series….
Continue ReadingIt is December 30, and I doubt I will finish another book before 2014 so I figured I would bite the bullet and post my Best Books of 2013 list. These books are listed in no particular order. I ended up reading 177 books this year, which far surpassed my goal of 100 books. I’m…
Continue ReadingThis year has been a big one, and one full of extremes in many senses of the words. While most of it has been very good, there’s a good chunk of it that has sucked. That’s okay, though, because the good stuff so surpasses the bad that the bad is bearable. In January of this…
Continue ReadingThis week the holidays have swept me up and I really haven’t had the time to sit down and write a review, which is aggravating since I am SO BEHIND on my reviews. I should get a few more up on Thursday and Friday, but still… Anyway, I was thinking. The holidays make me kind…
Continue ReadingOne of the reasons why I love reading is because the experience and interpretation of the books we read is different to everyone who reads them. We may read the same words, but we will feel differently about them. It is based on the human experience. We are all different people, so of course we…
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