Enjoying The Rain & Yep, Another One!

While we’re not getting a direct hit from tropical storm Humberto here in New Orleans, we are getting a good bit of rain from it, and that makes me happy! It’s been pretty dry down here lately. We’ve had the occasional Summer shower here and there, but nothing substantial. We’re supposed to have rain for [...]

Renfield: Slave of Dracula by Barbara Hambly

I went into this book not expecting too much to be honest. I knew that it was a spin-off of Dracula focusing on Renfield, of course, and imagined it to be some sort of horrific, crazed lunatic badly done insult to Bram Stoker that I would read anyway just for fun….at least the cover was [...]

Series Challenge

So…Kathrin at Crazy Cozy Murders is hosting a series challenge which is running from December 1st through May 31st, and well, I couldn’t resist. This is a good one to get some more books off of my TBR shelf, and it will fit in with other challenges The goal of this challenge is [...]

Saturday Night Thoughts

I just got off of work for the night and had to tell my boss that I’ll be leaving in a few weeks….and it was sad. I call her my boss, but I don’t look at her in that way at all. Those people are family to me. I’ve mentioned it here before, but I’m [...]

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Books like Bram Stoker’s Dracula become so ingrained into our culture that we often let them slip by without ever reading them, assuming that we know what they’re all about. There are many books that I’ve done this with. I’m guilty of making a comment on Nymeth’s recent review of Dr. Jekkyl and Mr. Hyde [...]

It’s Football Time!!!

It’s that time of the year again That wonderful time of the year where many of you get to skip over some of my posts because they will surely bore the hell out of you! Football time! Tonight, the Saints take on the Colts and you’d swear that it’s a home game [...]

The Goings-On Of Life

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted here, so I figured it’s time for an update! My weekend with Megan was great We made the most of it and managed to make a 2 day trip feel like much more. I think we got a total of about 6 hours of [...]