August 2011

Giveaway Hop, Book Giveaway & Review: The Stranger You Seek

Events
The Stranger You Seek

As we said on our Welcome Page updates for this week, we’re participating in our first ever Book Blog Hop. This one is a Back to the Books Giveaway Hop with about 300 other book blogs, each hosting a giveaway of a book or a book-related product. I’ll explain more about the rules for our [...]

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The Black Stiletto: Righting Wrongs in Her Own Way

Fiction
The Black Stiletto

Raymond Benson has written six original James Bond 007 novels and two anthologies on Bond, as well as other novelizations and short stories, so he is well versed in suspense and spy novels. That background has served him well in writing The Black Stiletto, a completely believable suspense novel about a teenager in the 1950’s [...]

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Android Free Fall: Crime is Still Crime, Even in the Future

Fiction
Android Free Fall

I hadn’t read much science fiction lately, and was feeling a little scifi deprived. When I got the opportunity to read Android Free Fall by William H. Keith, I decided to take a look. Mr. Keith is a New York Times bestselling author of too many scifi novels to list. Among his numerous awards are [...]

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The Postmortal: Would You Like to Be Immortal?

Fiction
The Postmortal

I kept seeing the book cover art for Drew Magary’s new novel The Postmortal and something about it drew me in, so I agreed to read it to see if I wanted to review it. The Postmortal takes a very intelligent, realistic look at what could happen to our planet if scientists discovered the secret [...]

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Book Giveaway and Review: Velva Jean Learns to Fly

Fiction
Velva Jean Learns to Fly

As soon as I learned the main character in Velva Jean Learns to Fly by Jennifer Niven was a North Carolina mountain girl, I knew I had to read this novel since I grew up in those mountains. FYI: This is the second book in this series. The first book was Velva Jean Learns to [...]

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Next to Love: How World War II Affects Three Women

Fiction
Next to Love

I had read very positive things about Ellen Feldman’s Next to Love, which I had previously mistakenly thought was just another bodice ripper romance novel. NOT! This is a powerful novel set in a small Massachusetts town during the period from 1941 into the mid 1960’s. It examines three women who are best friends, their [...]

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