For those of you that enjoyed Witch and Wizard the second one will be released on or around December 13, 2010. We are looking for people who have read the first one and wish to review it to please contact us at darkangelct@comcast.net
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Two New Acquisitions
Last night I went out and got two new books one is The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright, the other is Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Wicked looks to be deliciously hilarious, while the Wednesday Letters looks to be a deep book about a couple who die and leave behind letters. So I will be reviewing these soon so you will learn more once I read them.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Angelina Jolie to play Kay Scarpetta
The actress' interest in the popular series by Patricia Cornwell got the ball rolling after many years of starts and stops.
For almost two decades, Hollywood has attempted to bring Scarpetta to the big screen. Various studios have spent more than $10 million in development, and talent as disparate as actresses Demi Moore and Kristin Scott Thomas and directors Joel Schumacher and Antonia Bird have attempted to tackle books in the series. "I think she's a bit of the runaway bride," Cornwell says of her literary alter ego's relationship with Hollywood. "She flirts, but won't get married."
Fiction vs Non Fiction
Now I have heard through the grapevine about Patricia Cornwell writing the story about Jack the Ripper, and while I heard that book wasn't as good keep in mind that when a author tries to write non fiction it doesn't always take. But to give Cornwell credit where credit is very true, her fiction is up there with James Patterson, John Grisham and others. She is a wonderful writer. Especially with her main recurring character Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Those books alone are great to read. While her non fiction didn't pan out she is still able to give us great fiction. And great mystery stories.
Here is her link to her website which discusses her books.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
New Books
I am working on new reviews on various books minding that the real world doesn't get too much in the way so please stay tuned for new reviews Many are older books I just haven't had the chance to read yet and some are new ones I've gotten through giveaways, kindle books, or books purchased recently.
Friday, February 19, 2010
New Book
I just entered a contest and found I won the book is THE SCANDALS of an INNOCENT by Nicola Cornick
Book Blurb:
Miss Alice Lister feels anything but respectable. Bad enough that she is a maid-turned-heiress. Now the insufferably attractive Lord Miles Vickery is certain he can gain her fortune by blackmailing her into marriage - even though it was his deceitful charm that broke her heart once before. But she's positive the terms of her inheritance will prove an impossible task. After all, what rake could be completely honest for three long months?
For his part, Miles finds his newfound frankne
ss invaluable in entangling Alice in positions deliciously unbecoming of a lady. Of course, he doesn't yet know he's falling hopelessly in love with this formidable innocent...or that he will soon go to impossible lengths to prove himself hers forever.I am so excited to get this book read it and review it. Here's the link to the site where I am getting it from LINK
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
Noah, Liam Pennywell explains to his grandson, “didn’t need a compass, or a rudder, or a sextant.” He didn’t need sails on his ark, either, because there was no place to go in a drowned world. “Noah’s Compass” is Anne Tyler’s 18th novel, and we’ve met Liam before. He’s cut from the same cloth as Macon Leary, the immovable author of the travel guides for which “The Accidental Tourist” is titled; as Jeremy Pauling, the reclusive artist whose life is narrated by the cast of women in “Celestial Navigation”; as Barnaby Gaitlin, of “A Patchwork Planet,” employed by “Rent-a-Back” to do other people’s errands.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
New Books
where to begin more books less time it seems so here is the newest list of books:
Sookie Stackhouse Collection
With This Ring I Thee Dread by Ruth Ann Nordin
Spellbound Nora Roberts
The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts
The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen
Top 5 Romance Books
Top 5 Romance Books:
1. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
2. Special Delivery by Danielle Steel
3. Talk of the Town by Lisa Wingate
4. Vision In White by Nora Roberts
5. With This Ring, I Thee Dread by Ruth Ann Nordin
Friday, February 5, 2010
Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn
1922-2010
Zinn was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in World War II, an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. In 1956, he became a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the Civil rights movement, which he participated in as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and chronicled, in his book SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd and mentored a young student named Alice Walker.
When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to Boston University, where he became a leading critic of the Vietnam War.
He is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States, which presents American history through the eyes of those he feels are outside of the political and economic establishment.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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