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My Stephanie Plum Movie Castings

I’ve been reading the most fantastic series of books lately, and I’ve pretty much forced all my close friends and family to start reading them as well.   It’s the Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich.   They are about a girl who loses her job as a lingerie buyer and ends up blackmailing her sleezeball cousin [...]

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The Odd Struggle

I have been reading the book Odd Thomas for over a month.   I’ve been dying to read this book for quite a long time and when I got a gift certificate from work for the big book store in town, I went out and bought it.   I also bought the next book in the series, [...]

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Recent Read: Mahlangeni by Kobi Kruger

I recently finished reading this book, and I loved it.   When I was in the south of France a few months ago my brother-in-law gave it to me to read because he loved it as well.  He had spent some time in South Africa and picked it up while he was there.
I’m sure [...]

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Against the Grain

I hate when I read or watch something that the rest of the world raves about and seems to think it’s the best thing since sliced bread, and I don’t like it.  It happens quite often, like with the Kill Bill movies… or Monty Python.   It makes me feel like I have no taste, or [...]

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A Damn Good Book and Some Serious FOADing!

It’s thundering outside with some lightning but I never bother to look at the lightning here because you can’t actually see it. I wish we got really cool fork lightning here that I could take photos of, but we just get the white sky kind.

The closer it gets to summer the more and more [...]

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Bones

If you remember, a while back I read a few books by Kathy Reich’s. The books were about a forensic anthropologist named Temperance Brennan.   I didn’t like the books at all and I really didn’t like the main character.   I found it weird because the books got so many great reviews but I ranked them among the [...]

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Book Review - My Best Friend’s Girl

Amazon Synopsis
What would you do for the friend who broke your heart? Best friends Kamryn Matika and Adele Brannon thought nothing could come between them - until Adele did the unthinkable and slept with Kamryn’s fiance, Nate. Worse still, she got pregnant and had his child. When Kamryn discovered the truth about their betrayal she [...]

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Some Recent Reviews

The book I finished just was the 2nd one I had bought by Kathy Reichs.  You might remember the review of the first book, Deja Dead.  
As promised, I read the 2nd in the series and gave it a shot.

On Saturday evening I went out with a few girlfriends to see a movie. [...]

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Book Review - Deja Dead

Crap! I just realized that I left this post up all day with the wrong review up! The proper one is here now (Deja Dead). Ooops!

In other news, Xander got home last night! I must admit, it was kind of cool having the place to myself for a week but it’s definately nice to [...]

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