Sunday Greetings and my plans for the week

Good week everyone! (Hmm.. that sounds a lot better in Hebrew) Last week I did pretty well in the reading department, finishing off a few books and listening to one audio book. This was actually my first experience with an audio book and it made me wonder if listening to a book actually counts as having read it, since the experience is so different. But I will talk about this more in a later post. The book I listened to was Storm Front, the first...

Friday Quotes

Harry Dresden, Storm Front (Jim Butcher)I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.Two wizards at the University, Equal Rites (Terry Pratchett)- "While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe." Treatle nodded. "I hadn't looked at it like that," he said, "But you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance."- They both savored...

Favorite Fictional Character: Henry Fitzroy

Favorite Fictional CharacterHosted by Ryan at Wordsmithonia I never had any interest in vampires, or any of the various vampire related books, shows or movies, until I came across Blood Ties, a couple of years ago, which features vampire Henry Fitzroy- and I was hooked. Henry, played by Kyle Schmidt, is the bastard son of Henry VIII, and in the present day works as a graphic novel artist in Toronto. He teams up with Private Eye, Vicki Nelson ...

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

The dying wizard, Drum Billet, travels to the town of Bad Ass in order to pass on his powers to a baby who is just being born; an eighth son of an eighth son. But, too late, it is discovered that the baby is actually a girl, and everyone knows that girls can't be wizards.Esk is raised in ignorance of the wizarding powers that have been granted to her, in hopes that these powers will never actually manifest. When Esk begins expressing an interest...

Book Giveaway: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K Jemisin

I admit to being baffled by all of the rave reviews of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, a book that I enjoyed but didn't think was particularly remarkable (see review below). And so I've decided to pass on the book to someone who may appreciate it more then I did (which seems to be everyone).If you would like the opportunity to provide a new home for my copy of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, please leave me your email address below. And to make me feel better for going against the majority opinion, tell me about a book that you didn't like but everyone...

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K Jemisin

After finishing a book, I often like to see what other book reviews have to say about it and how their impressions compare to my own. I usually end up finding a mix of reviews, some of whose opinions agree with my own and some of which don’t. And so I was surprised to find nothing but rave reviews for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, a book that I had rather enjoyed but I didn't think was particularly remarkable.Shortly after the mysterious death of...