FINN-tastic!

Lately, I feel like I’ve been all over the place.  I can’t get focused; I can’t get grounded.  So, I decided I needed to get away. Now I’m in the middle of nowhere, in a California desert, hidden away in a hotel room with another writer friend in an effort to get focused and grounded.  [...]

SOMETHING BORROWED was recommended to me by a number of friends, and I had bought it long ago though I did not read it until now. This was a challenging book for me to get through. It’s not the writing, it’s not the story or the situation the characters are in, and it’s not even [...]

Lately, I’ve been trying to be a little more diverse in my reading selections.  Lots of authors suggest that aspiring authors should read everything they can get their hands on.  (Hey, sometimes, I can only get my hands on work-related items, you know what I’m saying?).  So, in an effort to diversify my reading habits, [...]

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book caught my attention a few months back when I saw the author interviewed on the Borders website. The author’s own history of being a double-descendant of women who were accused in the Salem witch trials made me more [...]

So I’ve got this list, see?  Of things I NEED TO-DO. Top of the list: put away laundry, er, after I organize my closet.  Followed by:  sweep & mop floors (note to self: investigate a way to do so under the bed), go through the random stacks of paperwork lying stashed into sections of my [...]

Some of you may have noticed a new page on my site, called TBR.  If you’re unfamiliar with the acronym, TBR stands for “To Be Read”.  The list there is not indicative of what I prefer to read (as you can compare the list on my TBR list to the my reading lists on the [...]

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick My rating: 2 of 5 stars My feelings on Becca Fitzpatrick’s HUSH, HUSH are incredibly mixed. One one hand, I dig the idea — fallen angels are right up my alley, much more so than vampires have ever been. I thought perhaps Fitzpatrick would offer me something new. Something Twilight-esque, [...]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins My rating: 5 of 5 stars I just finished it, and while I’m basking in the glow of having finished a fantastic, satisfying read, I feel compelled to write this review. I don’t often dole out 5-star reviewed, but Collins’ THE HUNGER GAMES deserves every last one of those [...]

My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent My rating: 2 of 5 stars [**spoiler alert after the "more" link**] This novel is HARLEQUIN TEEN’s first release. I can’t say I fell in love with this book, the story, or the characters right away. For me, the book kicked off kind of slow. It wasn’t so [...]

I picked up the book at 4:30pm. I read straight through until 12:30am and had only 20 pages to go when I absolutely had to go to bed so I could at least be in some acceptable shape for work the next day. In a word: RAMPANT is addictive.  And like the alicorn venom that [...]