Friday Quotes

This week I actually manged to read two books, Shades of Grey and Magic Bleeds, and to start on another book, The City & the City by China Mieville, which makes for a very successful reading week. Though I'm wondering if anyone else who has read City & the City was bothered by the overly complex sentences that Mieville seems fond of and which often require me to reread the same sentence several times. I've never seen this mentioned in any of the reviews of the book.I also started listening to the second Dresden File book by Jim Butcher,...

Favorite Fictional Character: Colonel John Casey

Favorite Fictional CharacterHosted by Ryan at WordsmithoniaI don't watch that much TV, and in fact, I don't even own one, but occasionally I'll get wind of a show that sounds interesting and out of curiosity I'll check it out. Sometimes this will leads to a new addiction that will have me glued to my computer screen for a half an hour each week. Such is the case with one of my current favorite shows, Chuck.Chuck has a number of great characters,...

Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, Bk 4) by Ilona Andrews

If you read Magic Strikes then you are likely to have also read the sneak peek of Magic Bleeds offered in the back, which describes a scene in which Kate Daniels stands in her kitchen surrounded by a sumptuous feast she has prepared for Curran, only to realize that she has been stood up. And if you read this heartbreaking scene, then you have probably been anxiously awaiting to get a hold of the complete book to find out what happens next.After apparently...

Contest Winners

My Urban Fantasy Giveaway has come to a close and I hope that those of you who found your way to my blog through this contest have discovered other attractions here to bring you back again ;)So without any further ado, the contest winners....Angie Dubisher has won A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. HamiltonStella Balogh has won Heart of Stone by C.E MurphyDenise Smythe won the Blood Lines trilogy by Maria LimaCasey Blackwell won Hell Fire by Ann AguirreCongratulations to all of the winners and I hope you enjoy your new boo...

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

If you were able to only see one color, which color would you choose? Perhaps green, so that you can enjoy the crisp freshness of the grass or maybe blue, so that the vivid hue of the sky will always be visible to you. Or you may be unfortunate enough to only see gray and to forever live in a world with no color at all.Edward Russett lives in a world where each person’s vision is limited to a single color and an individual’s social status is determined...

New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of June 1st

Here is this week's selection of new releases, though I can't say that there are too many of them that really catch my eye. My Name is Memory, by Ann Brashares, looks like it could be a really good book - and in fact - it reminds me a lot of my favorite episode of Blood Ties. I've never given Rob Thurman much of a chance, but her newest book, Chimera, looks kind of interesting, and I might want to give that want a try.How about you?Are there any...