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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:21:43 +0000

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? This is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being reading, and the books to be finish this week. This weekly event is hosted by Sheila from One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books so stop by and join in!

Books Completed Last Week:

When You Wish by Kiristin Harmel – Good end of summer read that I really enjoyed.

Books to Complete this Week:

A McKaslin Homecoming by Jullian hart

I won this book from Minding Spot

Summary:

When contacted by her long-lost grandmother, Lauren McKaslin wanted to reconnect – with all the warmhearted Montana McKaslins. For too long, she’d relied solely on herself and her faith.
But mistrustful lawman Caleb Stone stood in the way, and his questions about her were intimidating.
Was his attention more than a protective instinct? Now that she believed in family again, perhaps this was also the time to believe in true love.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:35:51 +0000

Books Completed Last Week:

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (Book Two) – I liked the series of books so far and I recently got the series on DVD and have been watching it.

Books to Complete this Week:

When You Wish by Kiristin Harmel – This was an impulse buy at target the cover caught my eye.

Summary:

Star Beck is super-duper megastar famous. She rocks–literally–every night in concert for thousands of cheering fans. But the pop star life–tour buses, fauxmances, size 0 minis–is getting a little old. Star can’t help wondering what it would be like to be a regular girl–without paparazzi trailing her every move, and without people being nice just because, well, she’s Star Beck. And when she discovers that her mom has been lying to her for years about something very important, Star decides to find out what the world beyond her stage is like after all.
In the blink of an emerald green eye, Star finds herself . . . buying a car. Eating cheeseburgers. Swapping her stilettos for flip-flops. Getting a job that doesn’t require dancing, winking, or mall appearances. And falling for the cutest, realest boy she’s ever met. But how will she know if he feels the same way? Because for once in her life, someone is going to have to like her for who she really is.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and enjoy your reading this week! What you reading this week?

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:23:32 +0000

Books Completed Last Week:

My Teenage Werewolf by Lauren Kessler – I received my copy from the publisher if I hadn’t I might have missed out on this gem. I’m not into reading books like this but I thought I might give it a try and I’m glad I did I enjoyed it very much and learned something’s about myself and my daughter. I would recommend it for anyone that had a teenage daughter. I think I cried after the first chapter and then felt relief that I wasn’t the only one going through this challenge.

Books to Complete this Week:

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (Book Two) – I hope to finish this one up.

First day of school I’m not sure what I’m going to do with myself I have two teenagers and I have been home with them all summer I have been having anxiety all night anticipating the shock that they wouldn’t be here with me all day. I hope reading and finishing up typing the reviews I have in my backlog should fill my days until I find a part-time job.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and enjoy your reading this week!

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:20:15 +0000

I’m excited that I finally got everything ready and bought for High School for my two kids, feels like a big weight has been lifted.

Books Completed Last Week:

Tall Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway – I really liked this book it was a fun read

Books to Complete this Week:

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (Book Two)

Summary:

Could a werewolf be loose in Chicago? Common sense says no. The grisly evidence says yes. So does Harry Dresden. And with his weird connections, he should know.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:28:23 +0000

Books to Complete this Week:

Tall Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway

Summary:

A delightful new comedy about witches, vampires, and the search for the perfect man.

Recovering witch Garnet Lacey manages Wisconsin’s premier occult bookstore. And a fringe benefit of the job is getting customers like Sebastian Von Traum-piercing brown eyes, a sexy accent, and a killer body. The only thing missing is an aura. Which means he’s dead. And that means trouble.

So what’s a girl to do if she’s hot for a dead man walking? Run like hell-and take full advantage of the nights

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Guest Post with Jennifer Walker Author of Bubba Goes National – The Power of Feedback

Heidi Vargas — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:42:51 +0000

In honor of the release of Bubba Goes National, Jennifer Walker has stopped by to speak with us about feedback and how it can help empower your writing.

The Power of Feedback

What do you mean, my writing isn’t perfect? I like it just the way it is! That is…until I rewrite it and see how much better it is!

In my day job, I write reports, memos, and presentations for my company’s executives and board of directors. It’s a high-profile job, and everything I send out must be perfect. Pressure? Sure, but honestly it’s not too hard to be successful, thanks to my feedback process.

No one can write the perfect anything the first time, and no matter how good we are at editing our own work, there is nothing like having a second, fresh pair of eyes look at your work. They may see a mistake you didn’t catch, or they may point out a plot hole you’d missed, or they might find places where you just need more detail. In any case, having someone edit your work is usually highly helpful and rarely a waste of time…depending on your attitude.

At my job, we say, “Red is the color of love!” If someone hands me a report that I wrote with red pen all over it, it’s because they love me enough to put time and effort into finding ways to make it better. The longer I’m in the job (almost two years now), the less red pen I see, because I’ve learned so much about writing these types of things.

The same goes for my fiction and articles. My sense of self preservation wants to launch a campaign to fend off attack every time someone reads my work and offers criticism. After all, I wrote it just the way I’d pictured it. However, after I follow the very excellent advice I’ve been given and rewrite or revise the piece, I’m always happier in the end.

I’ve come across many people who were very defensive when they asked for feedback on their writing and didn’t like what they got. They argued, they tried to explain what they were trying to accomplish with the piece, they accused the critic of being jealous or just plain mean. What is the point of this? What did you learn? If you have to explain what you were trying to accomplish, you didn’t accomplish it.

Keep in mind that your critics are just offering their opinion…but it’s the opinion of a reader. Readers are your audience! If you’re writing for yourself just because you like to, that’s fine, but don’t put it out there and expect everyone to like it…and certainly don’t ask for critiques. Of course, many people who read your work will disagree with each other about what they do or don’t like. You’ll have to pick and choose which feedback to use, and how to use it in such a way as to preserve your vision and voice. When you get defensive and refuse to consider feedback you’re given, you’re not only missing an opportunity…you’ve wasted your critic’s time.

Thank you so much for the guest post, I know I got some very insightful advice from this post, I do hope you also check out her book Bubba Goes National on sale now.

About the Author
Jennifer Walker is a full-time freelance writer, editor and novelist, owner of Walker Writing Services (http://www.authorjennwalker.com), ballroom dance instructor and Arabian horse and dressage enthusiast.
Find Jennifer on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/AuthorJennWalker

Summary of Book:

Thirteen-year-old Leslie Clark has loved horses for as long as she can remember and has been riding since she was six. Although her widowed father cannot afford to give her everything she desires she works hard to get what she wants. When what she wants, a great horse to show, is taken right out from under her by her rival, Kate Wellesley, Leslie thinks her whole world has been turned upside down-until she finds Lucky (nicknamed Bubba by her father, who thinks he is funny). Then, everything changes.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:18:47 +0000

Books Completed Last Week:

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger – (I enjoyed this book but I enjoy ghost tales if you don’t it might not appeal to you, it’s a twisted somewhat dark tale but if you go in with that in mind you’ll enjoy the ride).
Ghost Caught on Film by Dr. Melyvyn Willin

Ghost Caught on Film presents an extraordinary collection of strange and unexplained photographs that offer the exciting possibility of ghosts and paranormal activity captured on film. The book features early photographs from the Society for Psychical Research of psychics and mediums producing ectoplasm, ghost pictures and other paranormal phenomena as well as celebrated modern images such as the Hampton Court ghost. Each picture is accompanied by a description of its circumstances and the steps taken by Willin, the Society for Psychical Research and the Royal Photographic Society to establish that there is no `normal’ explanation for the phenomena. The incredible photographs will stimulate the interest of everyone who sees them. Whether you are a complete sceptic or a semi-believer, you can’t help but be drawn into the mystery.

3. Ghosts Caught on Film 2 by Jim Eaton

From shadowy figures, strange mists and apparitions to angels and demons, Ghost Photos is a compendium of extraordinary phenomena caught on film. The author has spent over 10 years studying thousands of photographs and here he presents a collection of the most intriguing in seven enigmatic chapters. This book includes a gallery of explainable photographic effects that are commonly mistaken for pictures of ghosts.

Books to Complete this Week:

The New Dead – A Zombie Anthology

Summary:

The hungry dead have risen. They shamble down the street. They hide in back yards, car lots, shopping malls. They devour neighbors, dogs and police officers. And they are here to stay. The real question is, what are you going to do about it? How will you survive?

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The HUGE TBR Readathon Round Two

Heidi Vargas — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:24:51 +0000

This readathon is going to run from Monday, July 19th to Sunday, July 25th!

http://www.bookworminginthe21stcentury.com/2010/07/huge-tbr-readathon-take-2.html

I’m alittle late but I’m still going to get busy tonight on reading!

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:05:35 +0000

Books Completed Last Week:

None

Books to Complete this Week:

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Undecided

Summary:

Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers — normal, at least, for identical “mirror” twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn’t know existed has died and left them her amazing flat in a building by Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin … but they have no idea that they’ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the OCD-suffering crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt’s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the mother of the girls — her own twin — and who can’t even seem to quite leave her flat

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6951861-her-fearful-symmetry

Lately I haven’t been doing enough reading, I have been enjoying the warm days without books which is bugging me. So I hope I can for the rest of the summer get more reading done. I did catch the PBS Hercule Poirot: Third Girl tonight and I’m rather new to the Poirot PBS series, but I don’t recall him crying before, is it just more or has he gone soft? Next week is another episode I can’t wait to see Appointment with Death (7/25 – 9PM).

If you want to win a copy of the book Murder on the Orient Express and a Hercule Poirot DVD; PBS is giving away ten copies – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/poirot/sweepstakes.html

If you want to watch them online go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/poirot/watch.html

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:57:53 +0000

Books Completed Last Week:

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris- 4/5
The Last Apprentice – Curse of the Bane Second Book by Joseph DeLaney – I love this series!

Books to Complete this Week:

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Good Reads -

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6951861-her-fearful-symmetry

Summary -

If anyone caught the PBS Masterpiece remark of The Murder on the Orient Express I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, I got choked up on the end.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:02:15 +0000

Books Completed Last Week:

Go, Mutants by Larry Doyle

Books to Complete this Week:

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
The Last Apprentice – Curse of the Bane Second Book by Joseph DeLaney

1 - Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

Summary:

Spiked with a “frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy” (Publishers Weekly), this “deliciously fiendish…increasingly riotous series” (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.

Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140079.Definitely_Dead

2 – Curse of the Bane (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #2)
by Joseph Delaney

Summary:

Now it’s the dark’s turn to be afraid

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts, and boggarts. But now there’s some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs of the cathedral lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat; a force so evil that the whole county is in danger of being corrupted by its powers. The Bane!

As Thomas and the Spook prepare for the battle of their lives, it becomes clear that the Bane isn’t their only enemy. The Quisitor has arrived, searching for those who meddle with the dark so he can imprison them—or worse.

Can Thomas defeat the Bane on his own? Is his friend Alice guilty of witchcraft? And will the Spook be able to escape the Quisitor’s clutches?

Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256598.Curse_of_the_Bane

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:45:40 +0000

Books Completed Last Week:

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – Rating 4/5 – I enjoyed the storyline it was very unique.
City of Dreams by William Martin – Rating 4/5 – I was very curious about this book when I heard about it and I was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. I do agree you must know some history of New York.

Books to Complete this Week:

Go, Mutants by Larry Doyle
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

1 – Go, Mutants by Larry Doyle

Summary:

What if the movies that glowed from drive-in screens from the ’50s and ’60s weren’t fantasies but really happened? In Go, Mutants!, Larry Doyle has created a world populated with the monsters, aliens, and mutants of B-movie legend, with all the beach parties, dances, fist fights, and hotrod races of classic teen dramas. An unforgettable era of pop culture is brought to life in an uproarious mash-up filled with Romance! Danger! Intergalactic Conspiracy! Molting!

Earth has survived alien invasions, attacks by hordes of atomic mutants and the ravages of dinosaurs brought back to life. Now we’re in the blissful future. The grass is always green, freshly mowed by famous robots. Carhops in jetpacks deliver burger and fries to your atomic coupe. And automatic sidewalks can take you anywhere: the Watch the Skies Drive-in, Crater Cove, and Manhattan High, where everybody roots for the Mutants.

J!m, the son of the alien who nearly destroyed the planet, is a brooding blue-skinned rebel with an enormous forehead and exceptionally oily skin. Along with Johnny, a leather-jacketed radioactive ape, and Jelly, a gelatinous mass passing as a fat kid, J!m navigates a scary adolescence in which he really is as alienated as he feels, the world might actually be out to get him, and true love is complicated by misunderstanding and incompatible parts. As harmless school antics escalate into explosive events with tragic consequences, J!m makes a discovery that will alter the course of civilization, though it may help his dating life.

Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7324359-go-mutants

2 – Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

Summary:

Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140079.Definitely_Dead

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Summer Break Reading Challenge Activity #2 – Wordle

Heidi Vargas — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:45:13 +0000

I did my Wordle on the Sookie Stackhouse series which I hope to complete this summer.

This was a fun activity! Click on the image to enlarge. If you haven’t check out this challenge you can sign up at – http://summerbreakreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/

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It’s That Time Again! Book Blogger Hop

Heidi Vargas — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:27:35 +0000

Last week was fun for me, I got to see a lot of great book blogs and found some interesting books to read and blogs to follow!

I really do hope you join me this week-end and enjoy all the blogs in the hop!

Your blog should have content related to books, including, but not limited to book reviews.

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on!

The Hop lasts Friday-Monday every week.

Please stop by at the host Crazy for Books and sign up and join me and find some great blogs to enjoy. http://www.crazy-for-books.com/

Some of the places I have visited this evening:

Obessed – http://paranormal-obsession.blogspot.com/
Ericka Breathes Books – http://erikabreathesbooks.blogspot.com/
Larissas Life – http://www.larissaslife.com/ (I follow this blog already)
Supernatural Snark – http://www.supernaturalsnark.blogspot.com/ (This is a new blog so I hope you take the time to go check it out)

The kids and me went to the shoreline so I didn’t get back around to as many blogs this afternoon but I hope to later tonight but here is some of the new blogs I visited so far today:

Tell Me a Story – http://cat-bookmagic.blogspot.com/
Writing From the Tub – http://carlybennett.blogspot.com/
Reading with Tequila – http://www.readingwithtequila.com/
Jacobs Beloved – http://jacobsbeloved.blogspot.com/
About Happy Books – http://www.abouthappybooks.com/
Smitten with Books – http://smittenwithbooks.blogspot.com/2010/06/book-blogger-hop.html
Confessions of a Bookaholic – http://totalbookaholic.blogspot.com/

These are a few more I found:

Paranormal Romance – http://paranormalromanceaddicts.onsugar.com/
Books Books Books Reviews! – http://bookreviews.me.uk/

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Summer Break Reading Challenge

Heidi Vargas — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:16:53 +0000

Information about the Summer Break Reading Challenge

Starts – 06/23-2010 – Ends – 08/31-2010
Sign Up and further details can be found http://summerbreakreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/

My goal for the summer is twenty books but I would love to go beyond this goal by August.

Here are the twenty books I want to read this summer:

Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
From Dead To Worse by Charlaine Harris
Dead And Gone by Charlaine Harris
Dead in The Family by Charlaine Harris
The Last Apprentice – Curse of the Bane Second Book by Joseph DeLaney
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
Fool Moon Book Two of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Grave Peril Book Three of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Fool by Christopher Moore
BloodSucking Friends by Christopher Moore
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
Morpheus Road The Light by D.J. MacHale
The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
The New Dead : A Zombie Anthology / edited by Christopher Golden
The Accidental Werewolf by Dakota Cassidy
Tall, Dark & Dead (Garnet Lacey, Book 1) by Tate Hallaway
Dead Sexy (Garnet Lacey, Book 2) by Tate Hallaway
Romancing the Dead (Garnet Lacey, Book 3) by Tate Hallaway

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The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein Review

Heidi Vargas — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:23:26 +0000

Published -May 12th 2009 by Yearling (first published May 27th 2008)

Pages – 352

Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6555142-the-crossroads

Summary:

Zack, his dad, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father’s hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in a fiery crash, and his malevolent spirit has inhabited the tree ever since. During a huge storm, lightning hits the tree, releasing the spirit, who decides his evil spree isn’t over . . . and Zack is directly in his sights.

Award-winning thriller author Chris Grabenstein fills his first book for younger readers with the same humorous and spine-tingling storytelling that has made him a fast favorite with adults.

Characters:

I like the relationship that forms between Zack and his stepmother she is not a mean and cruel like most stepmother’s in other novels. She is like a big kid trying to adjust to her new responsibilities as a parent.

My Review:

I found this book very entertaining. I liked the storyline and the plot twist. It does have some spooky moments so like most people I agree, that this should be in the YA section rather then the children’s section. Zack does have some flash backs of his mother who died of cancer, she is somewhat of a mystery and seemed to have been rather mean to Zack, but I’m sure that is going to be explained in future novels. This book is good old time ghost tale and is very enjoyable.

Rating: 4/5

FTC Disclosure:
I checked this book out from my local library and was not compensated for this review. I am an Amazon affiliate, any purchases made by clicking on the cover or the links provided may result in compensation.

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Welcome to the Jungle (The Dresden Files, Prequel) – by Jim Butcher (Writer), Ardian Syaf (Illustrator) Review

Heidi Vargas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:41:36 +0000

Published – October 21st 2008 by Del Rey/Dabel Brothers

Pages – 168

Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2637138.Welcome_to_the_Jungle

Summary:

When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can’t handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there’s just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago phone book. A police consultant and private investigator, Dresden has to walk the dangerous line between the world of night and the light of day.

Now Harry Dresden is investigating a brutal mauling at the Lincoln Park Zoo that has left a security guard dead and many questions unanswered. As an investigator of the supernatural, he senses that there’s more to this case than a simple animal attack, and as Dresden searches for clues to figure out who is really behind the crime, he finds himself next on the victim list, and being hunted by creatures that won’t leave much more than a stain if they catch him.

Written exclusively for comics by Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle is a brand-new story that’s sure to enchant readers with a blend of gripping mystery and fantastic adventure.

Character:

I first got interested in Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden after watching the series, I just started reading the books but I thought I would get started by reading the graphic novels and then get into the novels.

My Review:

The Illustration was fantastic! The Storyline was good, with amazing graphics that tied the storyline into a thrill ride. If you don’t know the history of Harry Dresden it could be hard to understand but it does give short details of the past. I enjoyed the book and can’t wait to get a hold of the remaining books in this series.

Rating: 4/5

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“Waiting On” Wednesday

Heidi Vargas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:10:52 +0000

“Waiting on Wednesday” is a weekly event hosted by Breaking The Spine and it highlights upcoming releases.

The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell

August 3rd 2010 by Holt Paperbacks

Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8051458-the-reapers-are-the-angels

Description: Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.

For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can’t remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week?

Heidi Vargas — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:16:14 +0000

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? This is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being reading, and the books tobe finish this week. This weekly event is hosted by Sheila from One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books so stop by and join in!

Books Completed Last Week:

Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Nancy Drew – The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Nancy Drew – The Secret of Red Gate Farm

Books to Complete this Week:

City of Dreams by William Martin (Almost Done)

Summary:

“Can I interest you in saving America?”

That’s the text message Peter Fallon receives from a Wall Street bigwig. It’s not a challenge he can turn down, especially since the country is in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Hidden somewhere in New York City is a box of 1780 bonds with a face value of ten thousand dollars. The Supreme Court is about to decide if these bonds still have value. If the decision is yes, those ten thousand dollars, at five percent interest, will be worth a very pretty penny…

Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, must find the box—and fast. Suddenly, their race against time becomes a race through time as Peter and Evangeline track the stories of New Yorkers whose lives have been changed by the bonds… and all the while they’ll unravel the thrilling and inspiring origins of the City of Dreams.

Good Reads – http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7852426-city-of-dreams

Go, Mutants by Larry Doyle

Summary:

Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7324359-go-mutants

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Almost Done)

Summary:

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2213661.The_Graveyard_Book

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Humorous Paranormal Challenge – July – December

Heidi Vargas — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:11:45 +0000

Humorous Paranormal Challenge – Runs from July – December

The Challenge – Read 20 funny paranormal romance books

Sign Up – http://www.bittenbyparanormalromance.com/2010/04/challenges.html?zx=76311b8b7651f877

I know I’ll be seeking Annette Blair and Christopher Moore books to get started, this sounds like fun to me! If you have some books you know I should read let me know in the comments. I have about eight so far to get me started so I can use some suggestions.

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