May is shaping up to be one of the best months with fabulous new books coming up: we just had the new Kresley Cole’s, Dark Needs at Night’s Edge released and we will have another one at the end…
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About three months ago, following KatieBabs recommendation, I picked up Lord of the Fading Lands and Lady of Light and Shadows by CL Wilson and found myself falling in love with her books. These are the first two books…
Title: If You Dare Author: Kresley Cole Review number: 41 Genre: Historical Romance Stand Alone/ Series: First in the McCarrick Brothers series but can be read as stand alone. Summary: Can he exact revenge? High in the Pyrenees, a…
Title: Visions of Heat Author: Nalini Singh Review Number: 40 Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone/Series: Book 2 of Psy/Changeling series Summary: Used to cold silence, Faith NightStar is suddenly being tormented by dark visions of blood and murder. A…
This Episode’s unearthing: a 2001 Bollywood movie, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham or It’s All About Loving Your Parents I love Bollywood movies. I am not, by any means, a great connoisseur, but I have watched…
Title: Slave to Sensation Author: Nalini Singh Review number: 38 Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand Alone/ Series: Book 1 of the Psy/Changeling series. Summary: In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha…
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Movie Review: The Darjeeling Limited
I am a huge fan of Wes Anderson movies – they are all a reflection of a personal vision: he usually directs, writers, produces and is involved with the photography, design and soundtrack. I love the feeling of his…
Title: Undead and Unwed Author: MaryJanice Davidson Review number: 37 Genre: Paranormal Comedy (Para-Comedy?) /Vampires Stand Alone/Series: Book 1 of Queen Betsy books. Summary: Betsy Taylor turns 30, gets laid off, is killed by an SUV and wakes up…
Title: And Then He Kissed Her Author: Laura Lee Guhrke Review number: 36 Genre: Historical romance Stand Alone/series: Book 1 of Girl-Bachelor series but it can be read as a Stand Alone Summary: Supremely sensible Emmaline Dove wishes to…
Title: Naked in Death and Glory in Death Author: J.D. Robb Review number: 35 Genre: Crime/Romance Stand alone/Series: Books 1 and 2 of In Death series (27 books so far) Summary: Naked in Death: Breaking every rule, Lt. Eve…
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One word Meme
I was tagged by Jill D. for this one word meme. ONE Word Answers (there is no way I can do this in one word answers only) You are feeling: sleepyTo your left: wallOn your mind: X-filesLast meal included:…
Review number: 34 Review: OK, right. At some deeper level of consciousness I would agree with most of Thea’s points (the “Frag” thing was particularly eye-popping) but I ended up not caring about the bad and the ugly because…
Loads of glowing reviews around blogland have prompted us to pick Grimspace for our Book of the Month feature and do a joint review. But, in the process of reading it we realized that whilst Ana was having a…
Title: Demon Night Author: Meljean Brook Review number: 33 Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand alone/series: Third full-length novel in The Guardians series. Summary:Charlie Newcomb worked hard to get her life back together. But all that is shaken when she’s set…
Title: The Lion’s Daughter Author: Loretta Chase Review number: 32 Genre: Historical Romance Stand alone / series: It can be read as a stand alone but some characters reappear briefly in Captives of the Night which has the villain…
Howdy! It is time to wrap up Western Week, to say adios to our favourite westerns, mount on our horses and ride into sunset – for the time being. Oh ok, until tomorrow.We hope you had a great time…
“We are not gonna die. You know why? Because we are so…very…pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.” Firefly was a (very) short- lived TV show created by Joss Whedon, the same creator of…
Deadwood was a TV Show produced by HBO which aired between 2004 and 2006, for 3 seasons, each with 12 episodes. In my opinion, some of the best 36 hours ever on TV. It is a Western which tells…
Silence. A door shrieks as the wind blows. An old man is writing in a chalkboard that the train from Flasgtone is going to be two hours late. Someone comes in, the camera focus on a gun and slowly…
Title: The Gunslinger Author: Stephen King Review Number : 31 Genre: fantasy/Horror Stand alone/ series: book 1 of Dark Tower series Summary: In the Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead,…
For this week’s ponderings: What is your favorite ’80s Romance/Comedy movie? Heathers – 3 High school bullies, all named Heather, get what they deserve in this very dark comedy. Big – What if you could grow up overnight? Tom…
Title: Sunshine Author: Robin McKinley Review number: Ana’s 30th and Thea’s 24th Genre: (Urban) Fantasy, Horror Stand alone or series: Stand alone Summary: They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they…
Title: By Arrangement Author: Madeline Hunter Review number: 29 Genre: Medieval romance Stand alone/series: stand alone Summary: Outraged by her unwilling betrothal to a common merchant and infatuated with a handsome knight of the royal court, medieval Lady Christiana…
Title: Demon Moon Author: Meljean Brook Review number: 28 Genre: Paranormal Romance Stand alone/ series: second full-length novel in the Guardians series. Summary: No one would call vampire Colin Ames-Beaumont kind, but they would call him unnaturally beautiful. For…
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Movie review: Grow Your Own
Generally speaking, British people love gardening. I guess 90% of the houses have its own garden, there is a huge amount of the TV shows about the subject, and people actually talk about it on a daily basis: at…