Sunday, March 27, 2011
5 Races down...
Wow, 5 races and 5 different winners and not one of them was named Johnson! And the new point system is so much fun, every week someone new is on the top of the standings! Love the fact that my boys are in the top 10 and getting close to getting a win...
March 27th
Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
A girl, a guy who drives a fast car (Nascar), a brother in trouble, bad guys, a girl in trouble, Little Havana, cigar factories, gold, fast boats all rolled into one book, what more could you ask for??
I adore Stephanie Plum and the adventures she has and the fact that Janet Evanovich loves NASCAR, I couldn’t go wrong with this book and I was right! Barney meets NASCAR Guy and the adventure begins!
A girl, a guy who drives a fast car (Nascar), a brother in trouble, bad guys, a girl in trouble, Little Havana, cigar factories, gold, fast boats all rolled into one book, what more could you ask for??
I adore Stephanie Plum and the adventures she has and the fact that Janet Evanovich loves NASCAR, I couldn’t go wrong with this book and I was right! Barney meets NASCAR Guy and the adventure begins!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
blogging away
Time to pat myself on the back, I've kept my resolution so far to blog every week. I'll admit most of my blogs have been about my favorite books but I'm blogging! And yes, I'm also writing my fiction...the dang plot bunnies have gone wild!
I think I've completed a short story, yeah, I know, I should know but I'm really not sure if it's a short story or the beginning of another great American novel to be...I like it as it is and am waiting for my favorite proof reader to let me know what she thinks.
One day I hope you'll get to meet these couples I've created. They continue to drive me crazy, they are alive in my head and are just as stubborn as I am, when they don't like the direction I'm taking their lives they let me know. Please think happy thoughts for Reilly and Kellan, Madison and Jens, Lark and Stone and the newest addition, Keely and Jake...and me the truly humble writer wannabe...
I think I've completed a short story, yeah, I know, I should know but I'm really not sure if it's a short story or the beginning of another great American novel to be...I like it as it is and am waiting for my favorite proof reader to let me know what she thinks.
One day I hope you'll get to meet these couples I've created. They continue to drive me crazy, they are alive in my head and are just as stubborn as I am, when they don't like the direction I'm taking their lives they let me know. Please think happy thoughts for Reilly and Kellan, Madison and Jens, Lark and Stone and the newest addition, Keely and Jake...and me the truly humble writer wannabe...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Cat Who Saw Red
March 20, 2011
The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun
This is the first Cat Who book I read and I was hooked- Jim Qwilleran, news reporter for The Daily Fluxion and former crime reporter, is assigned to review restaurants. For his first story, he decides to review Maus Haus, owned by Robert Maus. In addition to a restaurant, the architecturally peculiar historic building is also a boarding house. When Qwill discovers there is an open apartment, he promptly moves in with his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum.
Also in residence at Maus Haus is Joy Wheatley, Qwill's old girlfriend from Chicago. She had a knack for pottery and married a potter named Dan Graham. It soon becomes obvious that the relationship between Joy and Dan is strained, especially when they discuss how Joy’s cat went missing one day. Joy is deeply troubled by this, but Dan jokes about it. Joy is a far more successful potter than Dan; he is missing one thumb and so can only make roll pots, not as appealing as those spun on a wheel. One night she privately tells Qwill that she would divorce Dan if she could afford the court case. Qwilleran decides to lend her $750, the last of the prize money he won for a series of news articles.
I love this book and the series for many reasons, this book mainly because I throw pottery or at least I know how to throw pottery and no you don’t just pick up a plate and hurl it against a wall, this involves clay and a potter’s wheel! I love the series because the “hero”, Jim Qwilleran is fascinating and strives to not be a hero, but he rescued two cats and in the beginning struggled with odd assignments at the newspaper, he’s flawed but wonderful and solves mysteries with the help of KoKo, an amazingly intuitive Siamese Cat!
1.The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966)
2.The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (1967)
3.The Cat Who Turned On and Off (1968)
4.The Cat Who Saw Red (1986)
5.The Cat Who Played Brahms (1987)
6.The Cat Who Played Post Office (1987)
7.The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (1988)
8.The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (1988)
9.The Cat Who Went Underground (1989)
10.The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts (1990)
11.The Cat Who Lived High (1990)
12.The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal (1991)
13.The Cat Who Moved a Mountain (1992)
14.The Cat Who Wasn't There (1992)
15.The Cat Who Went into the Closet (1993)
16.The Cat Who Came to Breakfast (1994)
17.The Cat Who Blew the Whistle (1995)
18.The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996)
19.The Cat Who Tailed a Thief (1997)
20.The Cat Who Sang for the Birds (1999)
21.The Cat Who Saw Stars (copyright, 1998; published, 1999)
22.The Cat Who Robbed a Bank (2000)
23.The Cat Who Smelled a Rat (2001)
24.The Cat Who Went up the Creek (2002)
25.The Cat Who Brought Down the House (2003)
26.The Cat Who Talked Turkey (2004)
27.The Cat Who Went Bananas (2005)
28.The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (2006)
29.The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007)
The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun
This is the first Cat Who book I read and I was hooked- Jim Qwilleran, news reporter for The Daily Fluxion and former crime reporter, is assigned to review restaurants. For his first story, he decides to review Maus Haus, owned by Robert Maus. In addition to a restaurant, the architecturally peculiar historic building is also a boarding house. When Qwill discovers there is an open apartment, he promptly moves in with his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum.
Also in residence at Maus Haus is Joy Wheatley, Qwill's old girlfriend from Chicago. She had a knack for pottery and married a potter named Dan Graham. It soon becomes obvious that the relationship between Joy and Dan is strained, especially when they discuss how Joy’s cat went missing one day. Joy is deeply troubled by this, but Dan jokes about it. Joy is a far more successful potter than Dan; he is missing one thumb and so can only make roll pots, not as appealing as those spun on a wheel. One night she privately tells Qwill that she would divorce Dan if she could afford the court case. Qwilleran decides to lend her $750, the last of the prize money he won for a series of news articles.
I love this book and the series for many reasons, this book mainly because I throw pottery or at least I know how to throw pottery and no you don’t just pick up a plate and hurl it against a wall, this involves clay and a potter’s wheel! I love the series because the “hero”, Jim Qwilleran is fascinating and strives to not be a hero, but he rescued two cats and in the beginning struggled with odd assignments at the newspaper, he’s flawed but wonderful and solves mysteries with the help of KoKo, an amazingly intuitive Siamese Cat!
1.The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966)
2.The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (1967)
3.The Cat Who Turned On and Off (1968)
4.The Cat Who Saw Red (1986)
5.The Cat Who Played Brahms (1987)
6.The Cat Who Played Post Office (1987)
7.The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (1988)
8.The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (1988)
9.The Cat Who Went Underground (1989)
10.The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts (1990)
11.The Cat Who Lived High (1990)
12.The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal (1991)
13.The Cat Who Moved a Mountain (1992)
14.The Cat Who Wasn't There (1992)
15.The Cat Who Went into the Closet (1993)
16.The Cat Who Came to Breakfast (1994)
17.The Cat Who Blew the Whistle (1995)
18.The Cat Who Said Cheese (1996)
19.The Cat Who Tailed a Thief (1997)
20.The Cat Who Sang for the Birds (1999)
21.The Cat Who Saw Stars (copyright, 1998; published, 1999)
22.The Cat Who Robbed a Bank (2000)
23.The Cat Who Smelled a Rat (2001)
24.The Cat Who Went up the Creek (2002)
25.The Cat Who Brought Down the House (2003)
26.The Cat Who Talked Turkey (2004)
27.The Cat Who Went Bananas (2005)
28.The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (2006)
29.The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007)
Monday, March 14, 2011
Better late then well you know!
3/14/10-
The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen Donaldson
Terisa Morgan opens the series living a vacant life, supported by her father from afar and volunteering at a mission for lack of anything more purposeful to do with her time. She fills her apartment with mirrors so as to see her reflection and thus be constantly reassured of her existence. Geraden, an apprentice Imager (magician) from a land called Mordant appears in her apartment, searching for aid against a powerful enemy who has been plaguing Mordant with monsters translated from other worlds. As mirrors are inextricably linked with magic in Mordant, Terisa's home decor convinces him that he has stumbled into the lair of a powerful sorceress. He persuades her to accompany him back to the Castle Orison, where she finds herself embroiled in a morass of intrigue and danger from both the political plotting of a corrupt court and from the frightening magical creatures that appear without warning and can't seem to be defended against.
This is book 1 about Mordant, book 2, A Man Rides Through is just as wonderful.
The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen Donaldson
Terisa Morgan opens the series living a vacant life, supported by her father from afar and volunteering at a mission for lack of anything more purposeful to do with her time. She fills her apartment with mirrors so as to see her reflection and thus be constantly reassured of her existence. Geraden, an apprentice Imager (magician) from a land called Mordant appears in her apartment, searching for aid against a powerful enemy who has been plaguing Mordant with monsters translated from other worlds. As mirrors are inextricably linked with magic in Mordant, Terisa's home decor convinces him that he has stumbled into the lair of a powerful sorceress. He persuades her to accompany him back to the Castle Orison, where she finds herself embroiled in a morass of intrigue and danger from both the political plotting of a corrupt court and from the frightening magical creatures that appear without warning and can't seem to be defended against.
This is book 1 about Mordant, book 2, A Man Rides Through is just as wonderful.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Take a chance on this character
3/6/1
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death…M.C. Beaton
You may ask why this book on this Sunday, well, the NASCAR race is in Las Vegas, city of games of chance and when I read this book I took a chance that I’d eventually like this horrible character. We first met Agatha Raisin as she retires from her profitable position as a PR agent in London, she moves to the Cotswolds expecting a peaceful country life. She enters a local baking contest with a store bought quiche; she not win, but her quiche kills one of the judges. Desperate to prove her innocence, Agatha begins investigating the crime herself. I found her obnoxious and mean but I grew to love her. She can’t be all bad she likes cats!
Agatha Raisin series
1.Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (1992)
2.Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (1993)
3.Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (1994)
4.Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (1995)
5.Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (1996)
6.Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (1997)
7.Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death (1998)
8.Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (1999)
9.Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (1999)
10.Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (2000)
11.Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (2001)
12.Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (2002)
13.Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate (2003)
14.Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House (2003)
15.Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance (2004)
16.Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon (2005)
17.Love, Lies and Liquor (2006)
18.Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye (2007)
19.Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison (2008)
20.There Goes The Bride (2009)
21.Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (2010)
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death…M.C. Beaton
You may ask why this book on this Sunday, well, the NASCAR race is in Las Vegas, city of games of chance and when I read this book I took a chance that I’d eventually like this horrible character. We first met Agatha Raisin as she retires from her profitable position as a PR agent in London, she moves to the Cotswolds expecting a peaceful country life. She enters a local baking contest with a store bought quiche; she not win, but her quiche kills one of the judges. Desperate to prove her innocence, Agatha begins investigating the crime herself. I found her obnoxious and mean but I grew to love her. She can’t be all bad she likes cats!
Agatha Raisin series
1.Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (1992)
2.Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (1993)
3.Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (1994)
4.Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley (1995)
5.Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (1996)
6.Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (1997)
7.Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death (1998)
8.Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham (1999)
9.Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (1999)
10.Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (2000)
11.Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell (2001)
12.Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came (2002)
13.Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate (2003)
14.Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House (2003)
15.Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance (2004)
16.Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon (2005)
17.Love, Lies and Liquor (2006)
18.Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye (2007)
19.Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison (2008)
20.There Goes The Bride (2009)
21.Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body (2010)
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