Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews was recommended to me from 3 different sources. Since I like the supernatural world of vampires, were-animals, and magic, my friends and Goodreads thought this book series would be just the ticket. Kate Daniels is a mercenary who makes her living cleaning up paranormal problems. Since this […]
On a walk and talk with a GF, when I told her about my adventures in Second Life, she recommended Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The story, set in 2044, shows a society that spends more time in an online avatar driven world called OASIS, than they do in real life. When the creator
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham interested me because I enjoyed Dunham’s movie Tiny Furniture and her HBO series Girls. On one hand she is a raw, unabashed, tell-it-like-it-is young woman and on the other hand she’s a train wreck that I can’t seem to
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“Slurring is the cursive of speech…” Rules of Civility by Amor Towles was the December book club choice. Set in 1938, this story follows Katie Kontent (pronounced content as in happy) as a young, single, working girl trying to find her way in NY city. Starting out in a boarding house, as a typist, and
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba is a true story of a school dropout who built his own windmill for electricity just by being inspired by and reading books in the local library. Kamkwamba was a Malawi youth who grew up with the real challenges of hunger, disease, and poverty. When drought
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