Monthly Archives: October 2009

Relationship Problems Abound for Sookie Stackhouse in Club Dead

By Tracie | Published: October 30, 2009
The the third installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Club Dead, Sookie is not trying to find out who is murdering women in her home town of Bon Temps (Dead Until Dark), nor is she trying to figure out who murdered one of her friends (Living Dead in Dallas). No there isn’t any killing in [...]
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Words That Ignite a Book Purchase

By Tracie | Published: October 29, 2009
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for October 29, 2009: What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/phrases will make you put the book back down immediately? Irresistible Words: Broken Redemption Haunting Defies Fights Eccentric Reclaim Struggle Book Description that I love: The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that’s precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us [...]
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Trying to Figure Out Life While in a Cube

By Tracie | Published: October 28, 2009
The Sum of His Syndromes by K.B. Dixon is about a young man, David, who is having a life crisis.  From the job that he hates to the girl that he is dating, he just can’t seem to figure out how to make his life work. So, he writes his thoughts down in the bathroom [...]
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The Aftermath of a Good Book

By Tracie | Published: October 27, 2009
Last week, I finished listening to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. After I listened to the last CD in my van, I did  not turn the radio on and I did not put in another CD. I just drove in silence. I wanted to absorb every word the narrator had spoken. I wanted to hear [...]
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The Great Community of Readers

By Tracie | Published: October 24, 2009
This is my first year participating in Dewey’s Read-a-thon and I have to say that I am completely amazed at how involved the community of readers are. I had no idea that there were so many people out there in the world that loved to read more than I did! I always have felt like [...]
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