I’m probably one of the few people that has waited this long to read The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The books, targeted at the YA audience, chronicles a teenaged girl and her friends who live in the remnants of the United States at some point in the future. In this future, one of the [...]
I went with another western themed book as I picked up Bitter Creek’s Redemption by T.A. Chase off of my Kindle bookshelf. Travis Ramsey came to Bitter Creek to avenge his brother’s death. His world his shaken to its foundation when he meets Eagle, a half Indian/half white stable worker. Eagle knew his brother and [...]
I’ve been incredibly lucky to read two extraordinary books in the past few weeks. I followed up According to Hoyle by Abigail Roux with The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan. I’m a big fan of Levithan’s but this book takes his work to a whole new level. It’s exactly what it says it is–a dictionary. [...]
According to Hoyle by Abigail Roux is one of the most satisfying novels from the gay romance genre that I’ve read. This complex story, set in 1882, takes two U.S. Marshals, three prisoners being transported and a mysterious cargo and meshes them all together in one fantastic story. Flynn and Washington are the marshals who [...]
21Jan11
Ira Glass on Storytelling
Ira Glass is a national treasure and this interview is essentially Fiction 101 in just 5 1/2 minutes.
14Jan11
A Tabloid Love by T.A. Chase
This is the second book I’ve read of the three Will got me for Christmas (the first was Jacob’s Ladder by Z.A. Maxfield). He picked so good with the gifts because this book was oh so good. A Tabloid Love is made up of two stories: Tabloid Star, a novella, and With This Ring, a [...]
7Jun10
Bottled Up by Andrew Grey
Bottled Up by Andrew Grey takes place in the same neighborhood as The Best Revenge, which I read earlier this year. It was wonderful to meet up with Tyler, Mark and Steve from the previous book as well as police officer Sam Davis who plays more of a central role in this book. The main [...]
