So in this latest title of the In Death series, Eve Dallas and Roarke are enjoying the opening night performance of Witness for the Prosecution in Roarke's newly-renovated Globe Theatre in New York. As a theatre snob (as evidenced by how I spell the word), I must state that it is not a theatre-in-the-round as the original Globe Theatre is, but ( Read more... )

So remember last year when I read Beyond Seduction by Emma Holly? Well, this is the first title in the "duo," or whatever they call it in the historical romance field.

And after reading it, I don't have too much to say about it. It is a silly little romance novel set in Victorian England. Actually wait, I do have things to say about it; it just ( Read more... )

So on the WordPress mirror of this LJ blog, I collaborated with a college friend who also has a book review blog. Apparently it's going to turn into a thing. Anyway, here is the pre-read and the actual review of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire.

( Here's the pre-review review )

My Friend Sarah was watching all of the James Bond movies chronologically over the past two weeks. During that time, I needed to find a book to read in-between Gone Girl and what I'm currently reading now (but more on that later), and Moonraker is less than 300 pages; I figured I could finish that in a week ( Read more... )

Hm. I'm not sure how I'm going to go about this one.

Gone Girl was on a lot of "Great Beach Reads!" lists at the beginning of the summer. GoodReads was exclaiming over it, Anne Wheaton read it; a lot of people that I interact with through the veil of Interwebs were reading it. And when I found a cheap copy at Bull Moose (because going to the ( Read more... )

So the next two seasons of True Blood are going to be winging my way through the US Postal Service as soon as I take a break from Breaking Bad and actually finish the last three episodes of Firefly; it's time to read the next Sookie Stackhouse mystery so I'm all caught up ( Read more... )

Normally, I'd feel a need to apologize to my readers (small population that you are) for not being current on my reading material. But because I have such a small viewership (which is totally fine, bee tee dubs, being famous isn't exactly something I'm interested in being, and being famous on the Internet is a whole 'nother slice of that pie that ( Read more... )

A conversation about two weeks ago:

Me: I really want to finish this book I'm reading, but I've been too busy.
Dad: What're you reading?
Me: Gilligan's Wake.
Dad: Wow. That's James Joyce, isn't it?
Me: No, Tom Carson. You're thinking of Finnegan's Wake.
Dad: No, I ... wait a minute. Did you say "GILLIGAN"Yes, I had said Gilligan. As in ( Read more... )

*phew* Now that the Hannibal season finale has worn off (and also, I have someone in line to be the next assistant manager at my store, which means I can start having two days off per week again - hooray!), I feel that I can start getting back into the swing of things. So let's regroup with the last book I finished reading, yeah ( Read more... )

Hello. My name is Alaina, and I ... am a Fannibal. ("Hi, Alaina!")

You guys, you don't even know... I wasn't supposed to get addicted to Hannibal. I just started watching it because of cleolinda's recaps, and they were funny, and I was a little intrigued, and I half-watched the pilot and almost didn't give it a second thought, but then all of a sudden ( Read more... )