Life Update… If you care…

Life has been incredibly crazy for the past month or so, and this website has completely paid for it. So, here’s what’s been going on. Last November my kid started getting horrible, debilitating ear aches. They’ve been getting worse and worse, until they kind of exploded about two or three weeks ago. I’ve never had…

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Midnight Crossroad – Charlaine Harris

About the Book The #1 New York Times bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, “is back with a vengeance” (Tangled Web) with this first book in an all-new trilogy—and inviting readers to an even darker place on the map…  Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few…

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The Mechanical – Ian Tregillis

About the Book My name is Jax. That is the name granted to be by my human masters. I am a clakker: a mechanical man, powered by alchemy. Armies of my kind have conquered the world – and made the Brasswork Throne the sole superpower. I am a faithful servant. I am the ultimate fighting…

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My Five Favorite Audiobooks (so far)

I’ve recently started listening to audiobooks. I’ve discovered that I really enjoy them… well, some of them. Others, not so much. I haven’t listened to a ton of them yet, but I’ve listened to enough to give you a Top Five list. I’ve been getting most of them from the library, which keeps me listening…

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Servants of the Storm – Delilah S. Dawson

About the Book A year ago Hurricane Josephine swept through Savannah, Georgia, leaving behind nothing but death and destruction — and taking the life of Dovey’s best friend, Carly. Since that night, Dovey has been in a medicated haze, numb to everything around her. But recently she’s started to believe she’s seeing things that can’t…

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Harrison Squared – Daryl Gregory

About the Book From award winning author Daryl Gregory comes a thrilling and colorful Lovecraftian adventure of a teenage boy searching for his mother, and the macabre creatures he encounters. Harrison Harrison—H2 to his mom—is a lonely teenager who’s been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge…

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Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

About the Book It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play…

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The Magician King – Lev Grossman

About the Book Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon of 2009–The Magicians. The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the…

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