My second book for the Mystery and Suspense Challenge is the Apple Turnover Murder by Joanna Fluke. This is the 13th Hannah Swenson Mystery. Hannah Swenson is the owner of a cookie shop in a small town in Minnesota. She has an amazing talent, or is it bad luck, to stumble on murder victims. For […]
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Carrie
My second book for the Stephen King Challenge is Carrie. Carrie, as I’m sure you all know, is the story of a teenage outcast who uses her telekinetic powers to strike back at her tormentors. While I did enjoy the story I found it difficult to read, it wasn’t the subject matter that I found […]
Counter-Clock World
My first book for the Speculative Reading Challenge is Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick. This is my first Philip K. Dick novel and it was very interesting and fun to read but completely bizarre. Time has started to run backwards, the dead come back to life, everyone’s age is reversing until small babies get […]
Sink Trap
My first book for the Suspense and Mystery Challenge is Sink Trap by Christy Evans. It is the first in the Georgiana Neverall Mysteries. When her job as a CEO of a computer security firm and her love life goes down the drain in Silicon Valley, Georgie moves back to her hometown of Pine Ridge, […]
The Talisman
One book down, eleven more to go in the Stephen King Challenge. I just finished reading The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Like most people, when I think of Stephen King I think of horror but he isn’t limited to that genre. The Talisman is a fantasy novel, yes it has it’s horrific […]
I’ve gone crazy…
I’ve decided to sign up for another book challenge! I’m signing up for the Speculative Fiction Challenge 2011 hosted by Floor to CeilingĂ‚Â Books. While looking through titles to read for the Stephen King and Mystery and Suspense Challenges I kept coming across other books that I’ve been wanting to read— most of which fell […]
