Yep.  This is exactly what I've been doing the last few weeks. Doing stuff that most days makes me feel like I haven't actually done much. See, I'm used to keeping track of my daily word/page count output, so not having the daily figures to back up my progress makes me…

My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel by Grady Hendrix My rating: 5 of 5 stars As much as I complain about Rue Morgue magazine being the weakest item in my beloved Horror Block , I've bought several books because they were featured in this mag. This was one of them. …

Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke My rating: 5 of 5 stars I've wanted to read this book for a while. So when my daughter put in a request with our local library and they got it, I couldn't wait to get stuck into it. And wow... I loved it! So much. …

Anna has had a miserable year. Everything feels wrong with her life. And rather than stay and face the mess, she steals a credit card and books herself a seat on the first flight out of town to Los Angeles, to crash with her sister. But soon after she lands, cold reality soon dawns on …

Last week I blogged about all the things I wanted to do . All the plans I wanted to make. All the ideas I wanted to sort through. But I didn't do even half of what I intended. O.o Why? Because I found myself distracted by other (still related) things. Every time I planned to …

Samantha McCoy has it all mapped out. First she's going to win the national debating championship, then she's going to move to New York and become a human rights lawyer. But when Sam discovers that a rare disease is going to take away her memory, the future she'd planne…

Welcome to Midnight, Texas.  At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves-only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town.  Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translati…

I know it's technically Tuesday, but this pic is still relevant. :) You might have noticed that I've been MIA for a while, but there's been a lot of stuff going on. I kept thinking about popping over, but then ran out of time. LOL. There's just not enough time in th…

Black by Fleur Ferris My rating: 4 of 5 stars I borrowed this book from the library because I'd been hearing some really good things about it on Twitter. As soon as I started, I was hooked! Ebony Marshall lives in a small town called Dainsfield. Most people call her Bla…

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world …

In the early hours of New Year's Day, seven-year-old Samantha and her next door neighbor, Remy, watched as a man broke into Sam's home and lifted her younger sister, Turtle, from her sleeping bag, taking her away forever. Remy and Sam, too afraid to intervene at the time, later…

Moth Girls by Anne Cassidy My rating: 3 of 5 stars I actually found out about this book on Goodreads. And since I like a good thriller and really enjoyed The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy, I was happy when I found a copy in the local library. It's been five years si…