SUNDAY RECAPS
This was a great week!! I had a blast with Vampire Week at The Blog with Bite and it also gave me a chance to catch up on some serious reading!!
Announcements
I have a winner for The Faithful Heart Contest and she would be......
JuJu
----Juju I sent you an email!!!
Thanks Terra, you made my week a bit brighter!!
New Blog Alert
Also a great new blog for you to check out is Missie's blog The Unread Reader
She's just starting out and has decided to host her first blog challenge
You can sign up at her blog!!!
This Week I’m planning to Read:
Summer, 1954.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient.But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.And neither is Teddy Daniels.Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane ...
EVOLVE- by Various Authors
New Vampires have evolved, and they are coming for you! Kelly Armstrong, Tanya Huff and twenty-two other dark fantasy and horror writers come together to re-imagine the future of vampires in this new collection of all-original short fiction – one of the most unusual and original vampire anthologies ever assembled.
ESCAPE- by Caroline Jessop
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy..............................
THE BONESHAKER- by Cherie Priest In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.
I love the sound of Evolve! I've left something for you on my blog, come by and see! :D
ReplyDeleteI have Boneshaker and definitely need to read it ASAP. I'm definitely looking forward to reading what you thought of it.
ReplyDeleteooh, I'm totally going RIGHT NOW to check out that Christopher Moore challenge! I love him!
ReplyDeleteI'll be looking forward to hearing what you think of Shutter Island the book.
I just saw the movie and wasn't a huge fan, actually.
Shutter Island? *shivers* just the trailer gives me the creeps. I am the biggest wimp, and I can't stand horror movies. Hope you enjoy it, though.
ReplyDeleteCool books! I put Evolve on my wishlist at Amazon. I have Boneshaker but haven't gotten to it yet. I do want to read Shutter Island but I'll wait for the DVD to see the movie. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteNice books! Congratulations to Juju!
ReplyDeleteGreat week. I so want to read Evolve.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winner and looking forward to the review of Shutter Island, love scary books and movies.....
ReplyDeletejackie b central texas
Thank you everyone for your support of Evolve. We are very excited about the book - if you would like, you are very welcome to join the EDGE Facebook group, or the Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead Facebook group. For further information about Evolve events, please visit th EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing website for details! ( you will have to Google it, as I am not trying to spam, just say thankyou!)
ReplyDeleteJanice
WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :)
ReplyDeleteHey darlin' I just wanted to let you know that I have an award for you over on my blog! :)
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What a week
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