Read the INK Q&A with Howard Blum and save 30% on American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century.
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Read the INK Q&A with Howard Blum and save 30% on American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century.
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Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Liza, October 4, 2008
I loved this humorous and touching story of a city girl who dreams of having a farm....and gets one. Fifty acres worth! Hilarious situations with animals and neighbors are intertwined with touching antedotes about life, love and loss.City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
Liza, August 24, 2008
Set during the 1941 winter seige of St. Petersburg, an unlikely duo find themselves in prison, only to be released the next day with a special mission: to find a dozen eggs for a wedding cake. If they fail their mission, they will be executed. This is no easy task in a city of starving people who have long killed family pets and are now tearing books apart for the protein in the binding glue. A story of terror, bravery, friendship and humor, this was a fabulous read.(4 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)
The Blonde by Duane Swierczynski
Liza, July 24, 2008
Wow! This book grabs you with the best opening sequence I've read in a long time:"I poisoned your drink."
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me."
"Um, I don't think I did."
The blonde raised her cosmopolitan. "Cheers."
What follows is a frantic, dark, wildly-paced novel that is a cross between Raymond Chandler and The Twilight Zone. Swierczynski has a great warped sense of humor in this great noir-crime story.
Kindred: 25th Anniversary Edition by Octavia E. Butler
Liza, July 5, 2008
Part science-fiction, part historical novel, Octavia E. Butler has her heroine, an African American woman living in 1976, time-travel to antebellum Maryland. A first person's account of slavery from a 20th century viewpoint. Facinating, I couldn't put it down.Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel by Marie Phillips
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1-5 of 9 nextLiza, June 16, 2008
A laugh-out-loud book for anyone who knows anything about Greek Mythology. Imagine the Greek gods living together in a dilapidated London rowhouse, which they've been in since 1665 "when the Plague caused property values to hit rock bottom." They are bickering amongst each other and bored silly on Earth. A mortal couple, Alice and Neil, enter the story and all hell (literally) breaks loose. Funny and entertaining, each god's personality quirks are a hoot.