Today I had a marriage-requirements-related errand and took the bus on my way back to fiance’s place where I hang out and smooch off WiFi.
Look what I found on the bus seat! It’s a teeny tiny space ship made out of a bus ticket.
The Asphalt Warrior Series by Gary Reilly
I read Gary Reilly’s The Heart of Darkness Club last year and I really liked it. Reilly’s writing style and language is smooth, clever and quite entertaining. I would’ve liked to review the other books in The Asphalt Warrior Series, but I just don’t have the time. Hopefully though I’ll get a hold of the books in the not so distant future. :)
In the meantime, please read about the newly-released books in the series: Dr. Lovebeads and Home For The Holidays. Also, you might want to check out the other tour stops and enter the giveaways!
Review: A Cast of Stones by Patrick Carr
About the Book
In the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone’s search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins. Forced to flee with the priest and a small band of travelers, Errol soon learns he’s joined a quest that could change the fate of his kingdom.
Protected for millennia by the heirs of the first king, the kingdom’s dynasty is near an end and a new king must be selected. As tension and danger mount, Errol must leave behind his drunkenness and grief, learn to fight, and come to know his God in order to survive a journey to discover his destiny.
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About the BookYou know me, I like me some fantasy and this book? Me likey.
I saw this book on a blog tour invite months ago and as much as I wanted to join the tour and get the chance to review the book, I just couldn’t add another book to my massive review pile. Weeks later I saw that it was free on Amazon Kindle so I grabbed it without hesitation. I didn’t get to read it until days later and that was only because my sister read it and said it was really good. I trust in sister dear’s good taste so I veered away from my review pile for a moment and read the book. I’m glad I gave in to curiosity because this was such an enjoyable read.
Bookish confessions
I’m winning the boring blogger award these days and I don’t really have time to sit down and work on new and personal posts to get my blog going again like the good old days (I feel old), so for today I’m just going to ramble about some bookish stuff! Yay.
I am super delayed on my reviews. I still have about 30 books from authors and publicists from last year and I don’t think I’ll be able to get through all of them this year. GAH. I bit off more than I can chew last year and I’ve stopped accepting new books (unless they were sequels of something I reviewed before), but I still have so many books to go through. I’m getting through them but it’s been slow. Gah.
Even though I already have tons on my review pile and tons of personally-chosen unread books on Kindle and iBooks, I still keep downloading free Kindle books that catch my fancy on Amazon’s Top 100 free lists. I just can’t help it. It’s an addiction.
It’s a love-hate and hit-or-miss thing with me when it comes to romance novels, but sometimes, when I’m in a mood, I pick out a free romance book just for kicks. I’m not a fan of most new romance novels these days, but sometimes I just feel like reading something cliche and exaggerated or ridiculously sappy or just plain eye-roll worthy. Sometimes I just want something light and not so cerebral. Heh.
That’s it. Heh.
Do you have any bookish confessions you’d like to share?
Review: The Last Enchanter by Laurisa White Reyes
Just to be clear, I’m on a review and tour lockdown, but not for authors that I’ve reviewed in the past! Having said that, welcome to the official blog tour for The Last Enchanter, Book II of The Celestine Chronicles, a fun-filled fantasy adventure series for middle grade readers. I read and reviewed Book 1 last time and I quite enjoyed it so I was pretty excited to read this book.
Spooktacular Giveaway Hop: Win a book!
It’s another giveaway hop, folks! This time to celebrate the Spooktacular-ness of this particular awesome month. It is pretty spooktacular, isn’t it? ;) Hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer, this humongous giveaway hop runs through October 31st and has over 300 participating blogs. I’ll say that again. Over 300 giveaways just for this hop!! Woot doesn’t even begin to cut it.
Review: Hammer of Angels by G.T. Almasi
About the book
In G. T. Almasi’s thrilling alternate reality, the United States, the USSR, and the Republic of China share a fragile balance of power with Greater Germany, which emerged from World War II in control of Europe and half of the Middle East. To avoid nuclear Armageddon, the four superpowers pursue their ambitions with elite spies known as Levels, who are modified with mechanical and chemical enhancements.
Nineteen-year-old Alix Nico, code-named Scarlet, is a kick-ass superheroine with killer Mods and an attitude to match. She’s considered one of America’s top Levels, even though her last mission nearly precipitated World War III. So now Scarlet and her new partner, Darwin, have been sent to Greater Germany to help sow the seeds of anarchy and prevent Germany’s defection to Russia and China.
But where Scarlet goes, chaos follows—and when her mission takes an unexpected turn, she and Darwin must go ever deeper into enemy territory. As Scarlet grapples with a troubling attraction to her new partner, explosive information comes to light about the German cloning program and one of its prisoners—a legendary American Level who just happens to be Scarlet’s father.
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About the bookAnd here’s where I ramble about review this book
I was immediately drawn to the cover of this book. After I read the summary I got even more interested because the kickass heroine reminded me of Junco Coot, one of my favorite book characters ever. You know how I love me a kickass heroine.
The book, unfortunately, got caught in my blogging and reading rut and was pushed further and further down with the rest of my review pile. I picked it up a few weeks ago and finally finished it last weekend.
Rambling Tuesday: I seriously suck as a book blogger right now.
So the question that’s been on my mind lately is this: Am I still a book blogger if I haven’t been reading or reviewing any of the books I’m supposed to be reading and reviewing?
Last Friday I was all, “Have a good weekend, people. Read a book.” on Twitter and all weekend I was having a hard time getting back to the book I’ve been “currently reading” for weeks now. And it’s a pretty exciting book, too, with a really kickass female heroine, and I was having a hard time getting back to it. I finished it finally at the last hour. Yay for me, but then I still have tons of books to go.
I’m kind of stuck. And I suck because I’m kind of stuck.
Relax, sit back, and read a webcomic!
Aside from hopping around book blogs and awesome websites, reading about the latest innovations and cool stuff about everything, looking at pictures of cute kitties and doggies, scouring the interwebs for awesome graphic tees, and stalking my friends on Facebook, I also love reading comics online!
I’ve already posted about some of my favorites yearssss ago, but I thought I should post about them again because, really, you can’t go wrong with spreading some web comic love.
If you’ve never read a web comic before, here are great places to start.