Yes, it's the First of December so that means it's time for a Christmas Countdown. I decided to post about I Want an Alien for Christmas by Nick Santora. Here's a summery of the science fiction book:

On December 17th, when Theo Bartlett and his little sisters, Olivia and Sophie, went into the woods behind their house to investigate the explosion ( Read more... )

Stickers have come a long way from when I was younger. Now there are sticker books for every superhero. Here are some superhero stickers that you might enjoy:


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The world recently lost the King of Kumsomizers when George Barris passed away. Here are some items that you might find interesting:

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Irish-American actress and singer Maureen O'Hara died yesterday at age 85. Here are some items that you might  find of interest:


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I will admit that I have not been updating Jamdin's Journal as much as I should. There is no excuse so I thought I would post about the last seven books that I have read.

The Brothers O'Brien #4: A Time To Slaughter by William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone is an entertaining adult western even if the ending was a bit of a disappointment. A ( Read more... )

The Eagle & The Nightingales by Mercedes Lackey (Baen, March 1996) is the third book in the Bardic Voices series. Free Bard Nightingale finds herself asked by three different people to gather information about why the High King has been lax in his official duties in the Twenty Kingdoms. She gets a job at the Freehold, a nightclub featuring humans ( Read more... )

I finished reading The Night Eternal by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (Harper, July 2012) last night while waiting for SimCity Social to load. In fact, I zipped through it pretty fast while waiting for that Facebook game to load the past week. The book is the third in the Strain Trilogy and I have never read the first two but that is okay ( Read more... )

Very rarely do I stop reading a book but I had to give up The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett (Ballantine, October 1974). True, this is the second adventure featuring Eric John Stark, who is basically a space mercenary. I just could not like him and felt sorry for those that traveled with him. The gloom was worse than any Elric book, which is ( Read more... )

I finished reading The List of 7 by Mark Frost (Avon, September 1994) earlier this evening. This horror mystery finds a young Arthur Conan Doyle witnessing several murders at a seance held in London. He soon finds himself being hunted by mysterious hooded men and help comes from a stranger named Jack Sparks, who claims to be a secret agent working ( Read more... )

I finished reading The By-Pass Control by Mickey Spillane (Signet, May 1967) a few nights ago. This is the fourth and last book in the Tiger Mann series. I actually read the second book, Bloody Sunrise, in 1993 and gave it an A+. I read the first book, Days of the Guns, last week and gave it the same grade. I do not have a copy of the third book, ( Read more... )