Stuff as Dreams are Made on

I’ve read so many wonderful books by first time novelists this year, and The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield will certainly join the ranks of Audrey Niffenegger and Elizabeth Kostova. This is another one of those unread treasures that has been sitting on my shelf and it makes me wonder what other visionary treats lie [...]

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I’ve noticed that my mind has been somewhat stagnant lately and it’s a very unsettling feeling. Life needs to move on. I feel like I’ve spent the last few months just waiting. Waiting for Megan to come back home, waiting to start my job, waiting for some spark to ignite, and I just need things [...]

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They’re “mini-challenges” as our host, Becky, calls them, so I don’t feel so bad joining yet another challenge These are two very cool challenges and actually fit quite nicely into the reading I had already planned for myself for next year.
The first challenge is inspired by Masterpiece Theater’s announcement that they will be showing [...]

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So here’s my first foray away from vampires for the RIP challenge, and I’d say that overall it was a successful voyage. Heart-Shaped Box will most probably not make it onto the list of favorite books of the year, but it’s a hell of a debut novel for Joe Hill. The book didn’t start off [...]

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Today’s been the perfect, gloomy, RIP reading day and I spent it finishing up Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box. I’ll post my full review later. It was my least favorite of my RIP reads so far, but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a good book. It started off kind of weak for me, but it [...]

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You might say that I lucked out when I stumbled across my “favorite author”. Orson Scott Card manages to publish about two to three books a year, has about 50 books under his belt, and has written books, poetry, and short stories in just about every genre imaginable. His first publication of this year was [...]

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As another tropical disturbance approaches Louisiana, I’m reminded that life is always uncertain. As much as I complain about what Katrina left us with down here and how it seemed to uproot life, it has done some positive things. Mainly, I’ve learned that there’s no use in harping on things. Life is going to do [...]

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The Historian is one whopper of a book, but it’s worth every page and every word. It is the haunting tale of a young woman, a historian, who one day finds a book and some letters on the shelf of her father’s library. The book is very old and is blank, except for a woodcut [...]

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My God! Hi, my name’s Chris, and I’m a bookaholic….I made a deal with myself that I wasn’t going to buy anymore books until after the RIP Challenge. The reason being, I thought it would be nice to see what my TBR bookshelf would look like with the 20 books I signed up for taken [...]

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I’m known for my road rage. Aside from that, I’m probably one of the most easy going people you’d ever meet. It takes a lot to piss me off, and I mean a lot. I’m all about keeping the peace and making life as harmonious and easy going as possible, but get me behind the [...]

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