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Heads or Tails: Tails-Write a Scary Story

judythomas — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:53:08 +0000

I stumbled, bleary-eyed, to my coffeemaker this morning, thanking God for automatic timers. I’m not sure how I would function without that feature. I’m sure not away enough in the morning to actually MAKE coffee! My vision cleared as I sat at the sink sipping that first cup of ambrosia, gazing out the window into the backyard, and I saw a brilliantly colored cardinel light on the edge of the bird bath. All way right with the world…or so I, in my ignorance, thought. I finished that first cup, then poured me another while my brain cleared enough so I could remember my schedule for that day.

Ah, yes. Today was the day I had set aside to spend with An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray, in preparation for the new book I was starting. It was a new reference book for me and I was looking forward to delving into it.

I walked into my office and stopped short–stunned. Nothing was the way it was the night before. Oh, yes, my desk was still there and my laptop, but where were the piles of books stacked on the ends of my desk? Pristine, virgin surfaces met my eye. My bookshelves, normally packed to overflowing were tastefully decorated with figurines.

I rushed through the house….not a book to be found anywhere. I Googled the word “book”….and an error message came up “word not known.” Finally, I had to face the horrible truth… I had woken up in a world without books.

Friday Fun

judythomas — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:52:49 +0000

When I was growing up, books were some of my best friends. We lived out in the country, and while I had friends at school once I got home it was just me and my younger sister. We played a lot, but at other times I found my companionship in books.

I don’t remember ever learning to read. I don’t remember ever not knowing how to read. I’m sure both were true, but reading has been so much a part of my life that it’s just always been there. And, I remember some “kids” books, but the books I remember most were longer books.

I was also a fast reader. One of my first memories of learning that perhaps this was not considered normal for children was in the fifth grade. We had a small library in our classroom, and we could read books when we were finished our work. I remember we had to sign on the bookmark the day and pages we had read. This particular book I had chosen was The Lute Player, by Norah Lofts. Thinking back, it was probably one of the very first historical novels I’d read. And I devoured it. My teacher, Mrs. Purser, could not believe I’d finished it as quickly as I did…until I told her the story.

Our school librarian would let me check out books at an early age she normally reserved for the older kids. And, at home, there was no limit on what I could read. (One time, Mama did suggest that perhaps From Here to Eternity was a little advanced for me, but when I told her it was the second time reading it…. well, I’m pretty sure the “more advanced” part went over my head.

What are some of the books you remember reading?

Thursday Thirteen: Books and Cats

judythomas — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:07 +0000

Today is National Feral Cat Day and you can find out ways you can help the feral cat population in your community, just click the link. But, this is also Booking It!, so I would like to bring you thirteen books with “cat” in the title.

1. Dewey, the Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron: How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can’t even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.

Dewey’s story starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility, (for a cat) and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most.

As his fame grew from town to town, then state to state, and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend; he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming town pulling its way slowly back from the greatest crisis in its long history.

2.All Cats Have Asperger’s Syndrome, by Kathy Hoopman: All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome takes a playful look at Asperger Syndrome (AS), drawing inspiration from the feline world in a way that will strike a chord with all those who are familiar with AS.

Delightful color photographs of cats bring to life familiar characteristics such as sensitive hearing, scampering at the first sign of being stroked and particular eating habits.

Touching, humorous and insightful, this book evokes the difficulties and joys of raising a child who is different and leaves the reader with a sense of the dignity, individuality and potential of people with AS.

This engaging book is an ideal, gentle introduction to the world of AS.

3. Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties and Cats Gone Bad by Jim Edgar:Not since Kliban has there been a cat book this edgy. Edgy as in Bosco, the demonic Siamese with the out-of-focus eyes, razor-sharp fangs, and his own idea of Feng Shui. Or the half-shaved freak named Mr. Fliegel, who looks like a cross between a poodle and a lion. Mr. Fliegel shrugs and says, “Chicks dig me.” Or Kato, resplendent in his Three Musketeers outfit: “One for all, blah blah blah . . . now just get me out of this @#%&ing costume!” Or Clark, whose hobby is eating other cats’ food. Tina, who somehow always just misses the litter box . . . sucker. And the guilty-looking Clarence, caught with a Barbie doll in flagrante delicto. Clarence’s defiant defense: “She was naked when I came in. . . .”

Just as Kliban got us to think about the cat as something far more interesting than an innocuous house pet, and Suzy Becker taught us that cats possess a Buddha-like wisdom (together Cat and All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat have more than 2.6 million copies in print), Jim Edgar reveals yet another facet of the ever-mesmerizing animal. Brooding, deranged, antisocial, these are kitties with attitude and borderline personality problems–ah, but what hilarious fun it is to read about them. All 244 photographed in terrifying full color in their most unflattering moments, with a quote plus vital stats: name, breed, age, and hobby. Get to know them. Then see if you can ever forget them.

4. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut: One of Vonnegut’s major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet’s ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.

5. Hate That Cat: A Novel by Sharon Creech:
Jack

Room 204—Miss Stretchberry

February 25

Today the fat black cat
up in the tree by the bus stop
dropped a nut on my head
thunk
and when I yelled at it
that fat black cat said
Murr-mee-urrr
in a
nasty
spiteful
way.

I hate that cat.

This is the story of
Jack
words
sounds
silence
teacher
and cat.

6. I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun by Professor Happycat: www.icanhascheezburger.com was founded in January 2007 as a place to collect “LOLcats”—pictures of cats with funny captions. It has gone on to become a singular sensation, captivating millions and becoming one of the most visited blogs on the internet. For the book, the founders of the site have selected 200 of their favorite LOLcats from their archive of nearly one million, all of which are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud or wonder WTF?

7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams: Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.

8. Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle: A little boy’s cat is missing, and he embarks on a fantastic round-the-world quest to find his lost pet. Along the way, he meets lots of interesting people and sees many beautiful members of the cat family, including lions and tigers and panthers. But over and over again he has to say “This is not my cat!” until at last he finds the cat he’s looking for — who has a delightful surprise for him.

9. The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers by Lilian Jackson Braun: Polly Duncan is off to Paris, temporarily leaving Jim Qwilleran without his lady companion. Good thing there’s lots to keep Jim busy. Like a mysterious death from a bee sting that leaves everyone but Koko the Siamese in a state of confusion. If only the kitty with sixty whiskers would stop pussyfooting around and let Jim in on the deadly secret

10. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Illustrated Edition by T.S. Eliot:Eliot’s famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.

11. Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey:Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success she’s been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit—a far more threatening one—and the young dancer must once again turn to her mysteriously powerful four-legged furry friend.

12. Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett and Joliffe Gray:The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they’ve been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on Christmas cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away . . .

13. Cat and Mouse by James Patterson:That monstrous villain Gary Soneji is back in Cat & Mouse, the fourthbook in James Patterson’s series about Alex Cross, a police forensic psychologist, buthe’s not alone. In seeming support of the premise that you can never have too much of abad thing, Patterson has thrown a second serial killer into the mix: Mr. Smith, amysterious killer terrorizing Europe while Soneji practices his own brand of evil alongthe Eastern Seaboard. With two killers to track, Cross has his hands full–andPatterson has another hit.

Heads or Tails: The Letter “G”

judythomas — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:13:55 +0000

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Today’s Heads or Tails is brought to you by the letter “G”……. and what could be a better post for Booking It than “Good” Books? If you Google “good books” or “great books” there is a plethora of information out there. And, there is no true consensus on what makes a good or even great book.

However, The College Board has come up with a list. Just for entertainment, I’m going to put in bold the books I have read. I’d love to know which ones YOU have read.

– Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua– Things Fall Apart
Agee, James — A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane– Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James — Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel– Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul– The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte — Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily– Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert –The Stranger
Cather, Willa –Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey– The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton– The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate– The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph– Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore– The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen– The Red Badge of Courage
Dante– Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel –Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel– Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles– A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor –Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick –Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore– An American Tragedy
Dumas, –The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George –The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph– Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo– Selected Essays
Faulkner, William– As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William– The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry– Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott– The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave– Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox– The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann– Wolfgang von Faust
Golding, William– Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas –Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel –The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph –Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest– A Farewell to Arms
Homer– The Iliad
Homer– The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor– The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale –Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous –Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik –A Doll’s House
James, Henry– The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry– The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James –A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz– The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong –The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper– To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair– Babbitt
London, Jack– The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas –The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García== One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman– Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman– Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur– The Crucible
Morrison, Toni –Beloved
O’Connor, Flannery –A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene– Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George– Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris– Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia– The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan– Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel –Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas– The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria –All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond– Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry– Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D.– The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William– Hamlet
Shakespeare, William– Macbeth
Shakespeare, William– A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, William –Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard– Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary –Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon– Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles– Antigone
Sophocles– Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John– The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis– Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher– Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan– Gulliver’s Travels
Thackeray, William –Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David –Walden
Tolstoy, Leo –War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan– Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark– The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire– Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.– Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice– The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith –The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora –Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt– Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar –The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee– The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia –To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard– Native Son

Best Sellers of 1783

judythomas — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:17:59 +0000

My husband was reading a list of the best-selling books of 1783 the other day. Being the blonde that I am, I was like “oh…this is interesting. I didn’t realize they kept records like that back then.” So….even though some of the names of the books were a little….ummmm….. different, I said, “Send that to me. It’s something I can share on Booking It!”

Okay… so I’m a blonde, right? And gullible. He sends me this link. Yes, it’s from The Onion. Now, if you aren’t familiar with this publication, they touted themselves as being “America’s Finest News Source.” And… I have to admit… The Onion is indeed entertaining to read.

Bob’s favorite book on the “best sellers of 1783″ is The Lever and Fulcrum for Village Idiots…must have been the ancestor of the famous “Dummies” book. My personal favorite is The Diary of a Woman Who Knew How to Write. What’s yours? Curious minds want to know.

Thursday Thirteen: Books on My TBR Shelf

judythomas — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:41:22 +0000

In no particular order, here are thirteen books on my TBR shelf.

1. Highland Wishes by Leanne Burroughs: With the Scottish War for Independence raging, a young laird heads to the Scottish/English border to avenge his father’s brutal murder. After kidnapping his enemy’s daughter, he whisks her away to his Highland castle, where they wage their own war - of strong wills and growing emotions - as strife intensifies between their countries. Seemingly doomed by their differences, can two people find happiness in each other’s arms with such enormous odds stacked against them - or is theirs a love to last through the ages?

2. Servant: The Awakening by L.L. Foster: Gabrielle Cody has the ability to see the demons among us as they really are-and the responsibility to destroy them. She can’t allow anyone to get in her way, even the magnetic Detective Luther Cross. Sensing a malevolent presence watching and stalking her, Gaby is drawn again and again to an abandoned hospital surrounded by an aura of sickness and suffering-and unimaginable evil.

3. Leading Her to Heaven by Kayleigh Jamison: As the eldest daughter of an English earl, Lady Susanna Cavendish has led a sheltered life of privilege and leisure. Notorious warrior Blair Ruthven is laird of the fiercest clan in Scotland. Forced into marriage by feuding kings to forge a political union between their countries, Blair and Susanna must find peace between themselves as they battle ages-old prejudices - and vie for one another’s hearts.

4. The Dead Room by Heather Graham: At the start of this chilling paranormal thriller from bestseller Graham (Kiss of Darkness), anthropologist Leslie MacIntyre eagerly accepts an invitation to work on an archeological dig near New York City’s Hastings House, a historic building that survived the explosion which a year earlier seriously injured her and killed her fiancé, Matt Connolly. As a temporary resident of Hastings House, Leslie, who has developed the ability to communicate with ghosts, sees Matt in her dreams, complete with convincing erotic love scenes. A secondary plot adds to the intrigue as Matt’s cousin, PI Joe Connolly, searches for a missing social worker, whose disappearance may be linked to that of local prostitutes. Leslie’s paranormal powers lead her to not only important archeological discoveries but also grave personal danger.

5. Dakota Home by Debbie Macomber: Buffalo Valley has found new life. People have started moving to this town—people like Lindsay Snyder, who came as a teacher and stayed, marrying local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay’s best friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of satisfaction. And the same kind of love…
Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a solitary man who’s learned to endure. Maddy—unafraid and openhearted—is drawn to Jeb, but he rejects her overtures. Until one of North Dakota’s deadly storms throws them together…

Those few days and nights bring unexpected consequences for Maddy and Jeb. Consequences that, one way or another, affect everyone in Buffalo Valley.

6. The Ring on Her Finger by Elizabeth Bevarly: Heiress Lucinda Hollander decides to get engaged — to a man who thrusts a rock on her finger and promptly disappears — leaving Lucinda to take the rap for a crime she didn’t commit.

Lucinda goes on the lam, and even though she’s never held — or used — a dust mop she goes “underground” as a housekeeper on a large estate. After all, she knows her way around big houses, and making floors sparkle is a whole lot better than making license plates.

She quickly figures there’s something suspicious going on in the servants’ quarters — especially with Max Hogan, “the car guy.” He’s strong, sexy — and sure knows how to work with his hands. But he’s more than a little silent about his past, which makes Lucinda wonder what he’s up to … and what will happen when her secret comes out. Still, she hopes they can have a future together …

If only she could get that darn ring off her finger.

8. Lady Sophia’s Lover by Lisa Kleypas: Why is Lady Sophia looking for a lover?
And
could she seduce the most marriageable man in London?

Lady Sophia Sydney would do anything to ensnare the unattainable Sir Ross Cannon. Her goal—to ruin his reputation and cause a scandal that would be the talk of all London. So she insinuates herself into his life by gaining his trust and living in his house.

Every morning, her lush presence tempts him beyond all reason…the way she bends over the table to serve him the meals she has prepared…the way her hands oh, so gently—yet sensuously—brush against him. Every night, she promises with her eyes—and her body— that the hours before dawn could be spent in unbridled passion instead of restless sleep—if only he’d let her share his bed.

She knows he is falling more in love with her each day. But she never counted on falling in love with him. And she never dreamed he might very respectably ask for her hand in marriage…

9. Shadow Magic by Karen Whiddon: It was said that when her people danced, powerful things happened. Thus, when the golden stranger appeared before her, demanding that which he believed she’d stolen, Dierdre was not afraid. She had spent many nights dreaming of this man on his white charger, this errant Faerie prince. He was everything she was not: light where she was dark. He burend like the fiery sun she was forbidden to see, that she longed to fell on her skin, and she wanted him in the same way. Would his touch be like flame, searing her instantly into dusty ash– or more of a benevolent caress, sensual like sunrays warming the morning star?

Yet Deirdre know true joy did not come just from emerging from the darkness to feel the sun. There was more. Like love and passion, light and darkness were two halves of a whole. In their joining was the magic she sought.

10. The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt: Wealthy Lady Georgina Maitland doesn’t want a husband, though she could use a good steward to run her estates. One look at Harry Pye, and Georgina knows she’s not just dealing with a servant, but a man. Harry has known many aristocrats-including one particular nobleman who is his sworn enemy. But Harry has never met a beautiful lady so independent, uninhibited, and eager to be in his arms. Still, it’s impossible to conduct a discreet liaison when poisoned sheep, murdered villagers, and an enraged magistrate have the county in an uproar.

11. The Waterlord by Dawn Thompson: Lady Rebecca’s life changed forever in the blink of an eye. One moment she was fleeing her father across a storm-swept Bodmin Moor, in the next, her carriage overturned on a steep gorge. But she did not die. Somehow, she was pulled clear. There was an eerie luminosity about her savior, a fluid silver aura like the lightning filling the night sky. And while his voice was deep, mellow—comforting, like the music of the waterfall he haunted, it, too, held a hint of the Otherworldly. Who was this strange savior, this displaced foreign nobleman? Everything about the Count was an enigma. Becca had heard myths of the Fossegrim: creatures that traveled between the astral and the physical planes through waterfalls, driven to find ecstasy with human women then vanish forever. From their world, humans never returned. This man, Becca was willing to follow.

12. Winter Woman by Jenna Kernan: Her Prayer Was Simple: “Dear God, Let Me Die!”

But Cordelia Channing - preacher’s wife, preacher’s widow - lived and was born anew as Winter Woman, a woman of power who’d survived the deadliest season in the mountains alone.

She knew she could never do it again. Though perhaps there is no need, for Providence had sent her Thomas Nash, an enigmatic Mountain Man who stirred the deep places in her questing soul.

Nash had come west to lose himself, to rail at the fates that seemed ready to destroy his life at every turn. But somehow those same fates now saw fit to put Delia in his care… And though he was fighting it at every turn, Delia was transforming his life in ways he’d thought forever lost…!

13. 50 Harbor Street by Debbie Macomber: Dear Reader,

Considering that I’m married to Cedar Cove’s private investigator, you might think I enjoy mysteries. But I don’t — especially when they involve us! Roy and I have been receiving anonymous postcards and messages asking if we “regret the past.” We don’t know what they mean . . .

On a more positive note, we’re both delighted that our daughter, Linette, has moved to Cedar Cove to work at the new medical clinic. A while ago I attended the humane society’s “Dog and Bachelor Auction,” where I bought her a date with Cal Washburn, who works at Cliff Harding’s horse farm. Unfortunately Linette is less enthusiastic about this date than I am.

Speaking of Cliff, the romance between him and Grace Sherman is back on. But that’s only one of the many interesting stories here in Cedar Cove. So why don’t you drop by for a coffee at my husband’s office on Main Street or our House on Harbor and I’ll tell you everything that’s new!

Corrie

So… there you have it… which of these thirteen books do YOU think I should read next?

Review: Souvenir by Therese Fowler

judythomas — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:39:36 +0000

Souvenir by Therese Fowler

It’s not often that a book touches me in such a deep way. Therese Fowler has reached out and touched the deepest chords in a woman’s heart…those chords that are entwined with the love for our mother, our child, and our man. This is a beautifully written book as well. Therese takes words and makes them lyrical.

The characters are richly drawn and, as a mom, I found myself aching for Meg…and hoping against hope there would be some miracle at the end. However, it wasn’t to be and Therese doesn’t take the easy way out. She confronts tough issues in this book …controversial issues…and doesn’t shy away from them at all.

If you are a fan of Jodi Picoult or Nicholas Sparks, I encourage you to get this book.

Hello world!

judythomas — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:18:34 +0000

Welcome to Today.com and Book It! I am a reader, a writer, an editor, and I just love books. I hope to introduce you to some authors you may not have heard of and some authors you may already know. It is my dream that I can share the joy of reading some of my favorites with you and, in return, learn of some of your favorites.

I am also co-owner of The Long and the Short of It, a romance review site, but here we will talk about all kinds of books. Romance, certainly, but some other genres I really enjoy: horror, suspense, mystery, historical. And, I will be also running contests from time to time by giving away books I love to people who, I hope, will come to love them as well.

So, buckle up…come and Book It with me!