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Avatar: The Last Airbender–The Promise
In my humble opinion, Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the greatest stories of the early 21st century. The cartoon aired on Nickelodeon (in the US) and probably had a bigger adult audience than any...
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Winter’s Heart (Wheel of Time 9): A Review
Winter’s Heart is the ninth installment of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. The series itself is massive and each volume is an endeavor. Winter’s Heart is no exception. Coming in at 766 pages, the...
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My Gal Sunday: A Review
I occasionally will pick up a book by Mary Higgins Clark. My mom loves her books, and I’ve picked up the habit of buying them when I see them at yard sales and thrift stores. Her books make for decent...
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Assassin’s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy): A Review
Assassin’s Apprentice is my first foray into the fantasy world created by Robin Hobb. I first “picked up” this book a few years ago when it was free on Amazon kindle. The electronic file sat on my...
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A Tale of Two Cities: A Review
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is one of those novels that’s been in my TBR (to be read) pile for many, many years. And I finally got around to checking it off the list, albeit by not actually...
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Sandman Slim: A Review
Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim is the tattooed badass of the Urban Fantasy genre. There’s no confusing this book with paranormal romance, there’s nothing romantic about it (unless you call getting a...
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Savannah Breeze: A Review
After losing her most of her financial assets to the dastardly Reddy Millbanks III, thrice-divorced BeBe Loudermilk sets out an adventure of self-discovery and revenge in Mary Kay Andrews’s book...
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February Reads
So we’re nearing the end of March and I realized that I didn’t do my monthly review round-up post for February. So here it is! Better late than never. I read and reviewed 4 books last month. Here’s a...
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Wicked as She Wants: A Review
Wicked as She Wants is the latest installment of Delilah S. Dawson’s Blud series, but don’t expect that this story is about Tish and Criminy. The two protagonists of the first Blud book, Wicked as...
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Things Fall Apart
On March 21, 2013, the world lost a literary icon. Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian author, died at age 82. I had heard much about Achebe, especially his views on presenting the African story in...
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Stories You Love to Hate
One of my interns at the University Press of North Georgia, Toni, had a great idea for a blog post a few weeks ago. After soliciting responses from all over our campus, she came up with this List of...
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B is for Book Review (Angels)
Angels by Marian Keyes is your typical chick-lit read. The book, like most in the genre, is all about a woman in her 30s who goes on a quest to find herself. It’s a tried and true story, one that makes...
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F is for Felix Gomez (Book Review: The Nymphos of Rocky Flats)
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo is one of those books that pull you in the very moment you read the back cover. Vampires, Nymphos, and UFOs–sounds like a fun romp, of course I want to read...
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H is for Hidden Truths
I am a great lover of mysteries, but I’m sad to say that I have never read any works by Agatha Christie. Inspired by a Doctor Who rerun, I decided to finally give the ol’ girl a spin and see what the...
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I is for Inexplicable Time Travel (Connecticut Yankee Review)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain is one of those stories that has inspired a host of others. Any time you have a modern-day protagonist inexplicably traveling back in “time” to...
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J is For Just Another Book Review (Far in the Wilds)
Far in the Wilds is a novella written by Deanna Raybourn that is meant to be a prequel to her novel A Spear of Summer Grass, but does well standing on its own. The story revolves around Ryder White, a...
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M is for More Reviews! (A Spear of Summer Grass)
Deanna Raybourn’s latest tale is a bit different from her previous books. A Spear of Summer Grass is not set in Victorian England like her Lady Julia Grey stories. Instead, we are shown the beauty and...
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N is for Nutshell (Love in a Nutshell Review)
Janet Evanovich’s books are one of my guilty pleasures. I’ve been known to sit down and read an entire Stephanie Plum book in one sitting. Every once and a while, I come across one of the romance...
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O is for Overview
I keep putting off doing my monthly overview of what I’ve read in the past month. Here it is April 17 and I didn’t put up my monthly recap of reviews, so here it is (finally!) I read and reviewed 6...
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R is for Review (Lowcountry Spirit)
Lowcountry Spirit is a new e-novella from 2012 Georgia Author of the Year, Ann Hite. It follows the story of three slave girls in South Georgia who work on a plantation on Sapelo Island. Celestia and...
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