Cynthia Armistead (17 KP) rated By Blood We Live in Books
Mar 1, 2018
As it happens, I read most of the other stories, and there were many surprises. I did skip some of the reprints, such as the Anne Rice story (I wouldn't have read it the first time it was published, and I wasn't about to read it simply because she was in good company now). I had read Carrie Vaughn's "Life Is the Teacher" before, but for some reason my eyes just fell into reading it again, and I felt well rewarded for doing so. On the other hand, while I had enjoyed "Twilight" by Kelley Armstrong the first time I read it a few years back, I wasn't moved to repeat the experience.
I believe my favorite story may have been "Finders, Keepers" by L.A. Banks, as I still remember it clearly and with pleasure. I've only read one of Banks' Vampire Huntress novels and didn't find it interesting at all, so I haven't read any more of her work, but I may seek out more of her short fiction in the future.
"Mama Gone" by Jane Yolen felt fresh, as Yolen's work so often does. Garth Nix's contribution, "Infestation," was a little bit predictable, but that may be due to overexposure to the genre.
I found myself returning to the cover art by David Palumbo again and again, intrigued by the fascinating faces he gave the figures there. They aren't classically alluring, and most aren't hideous—most would look perfectly at home on any street. But they also have that, that something, an element you can't quite put your finger on, an element of the other. Take a look and I believe you'll see what I mean.
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Renia Spiegel and Elizabeth Bellak
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel, with her sister Elizabeth Bellak This is the...
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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in Books
Aug 30, 2017
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings
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Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She...
Anonymous (2011)
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As royal troops set fire to the Globe Theatre, Elizabethan-era playwright Ben Jonson (Sebastian...
Tussie Mussie
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Co-Winner of the GenCan't Design Contest Tussie-Mussie is based on Victorian fad that assigned...
Beckie Shelton (40 KP) rated Saving Grace (Hearthfire Romance, #1) in Books
Feb 8, 2018
Bethr1986 (305 KP) rated Jousting and Justice (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #5) in Books
Feb 11, 2022
Hayden is completely comfy in her new role as the newspaper editor and her life in Destiny falls. She is even falling in love! More excitingly there is a medieval festival being held on the forbidden island that has everybody a buzz with excitement! Hayden then finds the newspaper office headquarters has been broken into and there is a dead body in the archive room and this is just the begging of this adventure can this mystery be solved?
Elizabeth puts so much enthusiasm into her stories they are a joy to read. The right amount of intrigue and mystery so you don't find yourself getting frustrated because it seems to have gone on forever and nothing is being figured out. Also, the right amount of everything else to bring it all together so nice and neatly. I can't help hoping that maybe there will be a double wedding in the future of destiny falls?
Magnificent job again Elizabeth can't wait for the next instalment 4/5
Hush, My Darling (Benoit and Dayne Mystery #2)
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Sometimes, the past starts to bleed into the future… Dark memories haunt Eckardt County Deputy...
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