Friday, November 6, 2015
Weekend Read - Alien in Chief
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
My Favorite Quotes/Lines - The Professor Woos The Witch
“Bother.” Well, everyone had to die sometime, right? She grabbed the handle of the shed and yanked it open.”
“Did you just say bother? What are you, a Disney princess?”
“Do you plan everything?” “Yes. Don’t you?” “No. That’s not a very fun way to live your life.”
“Plus, it would be a pretty high coincidence that we’re both serial killers.”
“And she did, resulting in his door being slammed for a third time that day.”
“I’m sorry about that. I’ll work on being more likable. I swear.”
“So if he was going to be crazy, he was at least going to enjoy himself.”
“Apparently, it took a special kind of woman to accept another woman’s child.”
“Get your shoes on, young’un. They don’t serve the barefoot.”
“She was definitely hot for teacher.”
“With cake this amazing, who needs a man?”
“You and your stupid pretty face.”
“You’re adorable. Never change.”
“The last thing Cole needed was Puff the Magic MMA Fighter showing up at his door breathing fire.”
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Review - The Professor Woos The Witch
4 gnomes out of 5 gnomes
I adore this series, it’s just so much fun. The characters, mythology, and town itself make for some really compelling reading. Plus this series is definitely great to read in October around Halloween.
I’ve always wanted to know more about Pandora and what her deal is. Her whole witchy family is a blast to read about. It was great seeing more of them and Pandora.
Cole is an interesting case, I really liked the mythology associated with him because it wasn’t where I thought the book was going to go. I like how this book showed him dealing with finding out that all this supernatural stuff is very much real.
The relationship in this one was well done too. I like that they took things slow and stop to really figure things out.
Having a teenager in the mix this time helped the story too. The kids of Nocturne Falls are some really interesting characters.
Things that were awesome:
Learning more about witches in Nocturne Falls
Characters
Relationships
Family Dynamics
I liked the twists and turns of it all and that final confrontation does come as a surprise. I’m looking forward to reading whatever is next in this series.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Sentence Sneak Peek - The Professor Woos The Witch
“Cole Van Zant’s running shoes pounded the well-maintained sidewalks of his Nocturne Falls neighborhood.”
“Cole wasn’t one to be swayed by a woman’s looks, but he hadn’t expected Venus on the Half Shell to answer the door.”
“A sullen, angry Kaley sat across from Cole as their front door slammed shut.”
“Cole drove a pickup, which wasn’t unexpected, but Pandora had figured it would be dirty inside from whatever construction jobs he’d been working and okay, because he was a guy, littered with food wrappers and random pieces of two-by-fours and those odd flat pencils carpenters used.”
“After a long day of work, Pandora took refuge in her sister’s flower shop.”
“As soon as they got into the house, Cole called upstairs.”
“Pandora chewed without really tasting.”
“Pandora had over an hour to meet her buyers at the house she was showing them, which gave her the perfect opportunity to swing by her mother’s place.”
“Pandora arrived at Cole’s promptly at six thirty, dressed a little nicer than usual for Saturday-night family dinner.”
“Cole wasn’t surprised by how pretty Pandora’s mother or sisters were.”
“Cole gave Pandora her space for the rest of the evening, which thankfully wasn’t much longer.”
“Cole was a well-educated man.”
“By five o’clock, Pandora had finally begun to feel human again.”
“Never in his life had the impending visit of a woman given Cole the kind of jittery buzz he was currently experiencing.”
“Cole’s Monday zipped by in a blur of getting Kaley off to school, finishing the front living room clean-out, calling the hauling company to come empty the dumpster and finally, getting ready for his date with Pandora.”
“Pandora’s belly twisted into three kinds of knots.”
“Pandora still had a smile on her face from Cole’s invite, which was probably the only reason she hadn’t hung up on the house appraiser yet.”
“The next morning, Pandora caught her mom just as she was unlocking the door to Ever After.”
“When Pandora got to Marigold’s cottage, Corette was already there, which made sense since they lived so close.”
“Back at Cole’s, Pandora headed straight for the attic to search Gertrude’s things for the key ingredient in their sting, the substitute feather.”
“One text from Kaley.”
“At eleven forty-five the next day, Cole found himself wandering on Main Street.”
“Cole’s fear turned to anger when he saw Pandora’s Mercedes parked outside the old house.”
“Habit woke Cole before dawn.”
Friday, October 30, 2015
Author Signing - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Thursday, October 29, 2015
My Favorite Quotes/Lines - The Martian
The Martian by Andy Weir
“I would only be “in command” of the mission if I were the only remaining person. What do you know? I’m in command.”
“An ironic death for someone with a leaky space suit: too much oxygen.”
“So yeah. I’m fucked.”
“My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.”
“Hell yeah I’m a botanist! Fear my botany powers!”
“I’ll just have to survive to make up for it.”
“As you can see, this plan provides many opportunities for me to die in a fiery explosion.”
“Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape.”
“If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I’ll have to risk it.”
“Well my math was a damn liar!”
“Damn it, Jim, I’m a botanist, not a chemist!”
“Disco. God damn it, Lewis.”
“Something very hot and very explodey had happened, and I wasn’t sure what.”
“And my dumb-assery almost got me killed!”
How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
“But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I’m the King of Mars.”
“I’m the first person to be alone on an entire planet.”
“I haven’t been this excited about a “yes” since prom night!”
“In your face, Neil Armstrong!”
“Yeah, I know. A lot of my ideas involve setting something on fire.”
“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
“Life is amazingly tenacious. They don’t want to die any more than I do.”
“I’m on my own.”
“Mars and my stupidity keep trying to kill me.”
“Yeah, that’s right, Mars, I’m gonna piss and shit on you. That’s what you get for trying to kill me all the time.”
“As with most of life’s problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”
“If I’ve learned one thing from my stay at Club Mars, it’s that everything can be useful.”
“You may be wondering what else I do with my free time. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But so do you, so don’t judge.”
“Disco: Lifetime supply.”
“Live Another Sol would be an awesome name for a James Bond movie.”
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
“He’s a clever son of a bitch.”
“As soon as the rover toppled, I curled into a ball and cowered. That’s the kind of action hero I am.”
“They’re probably worried.”
“Beers for everyone if I get back to Earth.”
“It’s the simple things in life that matter.”
“Then I sat for a moment, dumbstruck that my plan had actually worked.”
“You’re sending him to space under a tarp.”
“If I survive this, I’ll tell people I was pissing rocket fuel.”
“I’ve done a little of everything here, because I’m the only one around to do it.”
“But consider this: I’d get to fly around like Iron Man.”
“It’s true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl.”
“But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true.”
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
"Waiting On" Wednesday - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
This week I'm waiting on...
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
"The next short story collection containing many of the previously published but hard-to-find short stories published since Just After Sunset."
I love King’s short stories and can’t wait to read this collection. I find his short stories actually scary and they’re one of the only books to give me bad/scary dreams.
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