(Note: This is an older entry, from my first few months of blogging, and contains spoilers. Reader beware.) Normally I’m not a fan of setting foot in Barnes and Noble without a set list of books to look for; letting me wander about like a free range chicken is liable to leave my companions with…
“Perform the tasks in the ballad and you’ll be saved. It’s as simple and as hard as that.”
Title: Impossible Author: Nancy Werlin Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publication Date: 2008 Purchase Price: $9.99 (paperback) Misc. Info.: A great example of music inspiring a story Aldous Huxley (the author of Brave New World) is quoted as saying, “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” And while I’m a great…
“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.”
Title: Odd Thomas Author: Dean Koontz Genre: Thriller/Mystery Publication Date: 2003 Purchase Price: $7.99 Misc. Info.: First in the Odd Thomas series (four thus far) Odd Thomas can see dead people. “But then, by God,” he says, “I do something about it” (p. 32). Not many in the small town of Pico Mundo know of…
“Disappearances, after all, have explanations. Usually.”
Title: Outlander Author: Diana Gabaldon Genre: Historical fiction Publication Date: 1992 Purchase Price: $7.99 (paperback) Misc. Info.: First in a series–so far it’s up to seven The Plot Claire and her husband Frank are enjoying a leisurely second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands in 1945. Both have served in the military, Frank as a soldier…
“It was always the same for her when she arrived to meet the body.”
Title: Heat Wave Author: Richard Castle Genre: Mystery/Thriller Publication Date: September 2009 Purchase Price: $19.99 (hardback) Misc. Info.: Based on ABC’s primetime show “Castle” In the middle of a nasty heat wave in New York, real estate genius Matthew Starr plunges to his death from his fancy apartment, his widow is attacked by a mystery…