Book Reviews and a Little More…
Book #99 was Night Embrace, Sherrilyn Kenyon’s 4th Dark-Hunter novel. The back of the book reads: Dear Reader, Life is great for me. I have my chicory coffee, my warm beignets, and my best friend on the cell phone. Once the sun goes down, I am the baddest thing prowling the night: I command the elements, and I know no fear. For centuries, I’ve protected
Read moreBook #98 was A Game of Thrones, the first book in George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. The back of the book reads: Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes
Read moreBook #97 was Three Act Tragedy, the 10th of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot books. The back of the book reads: A cocktail party ends in murder, but who did it? Why? And for that matter, how? No real cause of death has been established. It’s a real baffler and it’s prompting Hercule Poirot to ask another question…who’s next? I found this to be a sub-par
Read moreBook #96 was World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. The back of the book reads: “The end was near.†—Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of
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