Teaser Tuesday 12/10/13

December 10, 2013 - Ambrosia 16 Comments

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

“Do you think he killed the woman?”

“No” Mycene said, without hesitation. “I’d lay my money it was the father of her bastard.” ~ Pg 123 Lightborn by Alison Sinclair

Musing Monday 12/9/13

December 9, 2013 - Ambrosia 6 Comments

Musing Monday is hosted over at Should Be Reading.

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

Being that I am still on a Vampire kick from Halloween but I am going to try to read a Christmas story for the season my Muse this week is, do you try to read holiday books this time of year? Or do you still just read what you want to read and go from there.

So like I said I am trying this year to read a holiday book. Honest side of it however is that up until this year I haven’t and I have not really given much thought to the time of year when I pick a book to read. I don’t go for the over the top Christmasy stuff since I celebrate Yule myself.

Sunday Salon 12/8/13

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My oh my it has been a while since I have done the Sunday Salon. It has been an up and down year and I let some of my Meme’s fall behind while I was keeping on time of everything else. So here we are another Sunday and back on the Salon. If you are a regular reader of my blog you will see that I have been on a Vampire Kick since October. That does not seem to be letting up as I am about to start reading Lightborn soon, I loved Shadowborn so I think this one will also be good. I meant to start it a few days ago but I got bogged down with work. Tis the season eh? So I will probably start it today.

Ah yes that makes me think of this season, Tis the season of harassed people. I have already gotten some of the grumpy looks from people at stores. I mean what is with that? I am trying hard not to be a scrooge this year. I know I am normally not much of a Christmas person, because well I do Yule and the rest of my family loves to sing to their savior. So I decided to do some outside decorating. Snow and all. Ah yes we got a scary amount of snow for this time of year on Friday.

I like my sparkly light up Tardis and I am very happy with how it turned out. You can’t see my candy cane garland and the candy canes at the bottom of the stairs. My next thing to try to get more into the holiday mood is going to be to try to read some holiday books. I do not usually do that but hey I went all Vampire for Halloween season why not go into Christmas/Yule stuff too.

So Happy Sunday everyone, I am hoping to get on a more long winded run once I settle in to doing Sunday Salon more again. In the mean time here is Isis enjoying the snow.

Quotable Sunday 12/8/13

December 8, 2013 - Ambrosia 1 Comment

I am in a Loki mood..so…here we go 😉

Thor: Loki, this is madness!
Loki: Is it madness? Is it? IS IT? I don’t know what happened on Earth to make you so soft! Don’t tell me it was that woman?… Oh, it was. Well maybe, when we’re done here, I’ll pay her a visit myself!
[Thor and Loki continue fighting]

Loki: Look at you. The mighty Thor! With all your strength! And what good does it do you now? Do you hear me, brother? There’s nothing you can do!
[Thor smashes the Bifrost] Loki: What are you doing? If you destroy the Bridge, you’ll never see her again!
Thor: Forgive me, Jane!

Loki: What troubles you, gatekeeper?
Heimdall: I turned my gaze upon you in Jotunheim but could neither see you nor hear you. You were shrouded from me like the Frost Giants that had entered this realm.
Loki: Perhaps your senses have weakened after your many years of service.
Heimdall: Or perhaps someone has found a way to hide that which he does not wish me to see.
Loki: You have great power, Heimdall. Did Odin fear you?
Heimdall: No.
Loki: And why is that?
Heimdall: Because he is my king, and I am sworn to obey him.
Loki: He was your king. And you’re sworn to obey me now. Yes?
Heimdall: Yes.
Loki: Then you’ll open the Bifrost to no-one! Until I have repaired the damage that my brother has done!

Loki: Can you? Can you wipe out that much red? Drakov’s daughter, Sao Paulo, the hospital fire?… Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it’s GUSHING red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child at prayer… PATHETIC! You lie and kill in the service of liars and killers. You pretend to be separate, to have your own code, something that makes up for the horrors. But they are a part of you, and they will never go away!… I won’t touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you! Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear! And then he’ll wake just long enough to see his good work, and when he screams, I’ll split his skull! This is MY bargain, you mewling quim!

Loki: Of course it does. I’ve come too far anything else. I am Loki, of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose.

Loki: You WILL kneel before me!

Loki: Please tell me you’re going to appeal to my humanity
Tony Stark: Uh, actually I’m planning to threaten you.
Loki: You should have left your armor on for that.
Tony Stark: Yeah. It’s seen a bit of “mileage” and you got the “glow-stick of destiny”. Would you like a drink?
Loki: Stalling me won’t change anything
Tony Stark: No, no no, threatening! No drink? You sure? I’m having one.

Loki: Enough! You are, all of you are beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I will not be bullied by…
[Hulk flattens Loki with repeated smashes into the floor] The Hulk: Puny god.

[Loki awakens to find the Avengers staring at him] Loki: If it’s all the same to you, I’ll have that drink now.

December Kindle Fire HDX #1

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Book Blast: Silver-White by Shawn Underhill

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Silver-White by Shawn Underhill

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
~ Robert Frost

*Evie’s family has been holding out on her …

Big time.

On an unexpected visit to her grandparents’ house in New Hampshire’s secluded North Woods, the sixteen-year-old literally runs into the truth of the long-hidden family secrets, and finds herself thrust without warning into the clandestine world of the Great North Pack—a wild and exhilarating world of rugged beauty, heart-pounding adventures, and long nights running under a sea of stars … but as she’s set to discover, a world also fraught with potential dangers lurking in the shadows.

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Book Review: Revealed (House of Night #11) by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

December 6, 2013 - Ambrosia Leave a comment

Revealed is the spellbinding eleventh and penultimate installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling vampyre series by PC and Kristin Cast.

Drastically altered after her fall at the end of Hidden, Neferet is now more dangerous than ever—and her quest for vengeance will wreak havoc on humans, as well as Zoey and her friends. Chaos is loosed in Tulsa and the House of Night is blamed. Can Zoey stop Neferet in time to keep her anger from escalating to full-on war? Or will someone else have to step in to take the fall?

The House of Night series is an international phenomenon, reaching #1 on U.S., German, and UK bestseller lists, and remaining a fixture on The New York Times Children’s Series bestseller list for nearly 150 weeks and counting. With more than 12 million copies in print, rights sold in thirty–eight countries to date, and relatable, addictive characters, this series is unstoppable. Now, in the eleventh and penultimate installment of the series, the action is more intense and the stakes even higher as Zoey and her friends battle to protect their school and home from devastating evil—all while balancing romances, precarious friendships and the daily drama of the House of Night’s halls.

This review has:

There were things I liked about this book and things I did not like about this book. What I did not like is a lot of the repetitiveness that is cropping up. We seem now to be going in circles with the actions and even the big things that people are doing. Including how in the end Zoey has a temper tantrum of horcrux like style and kills to guys. Sure they were creepy and preyed on little girls, but hello call the cops. It is a sad day in reading when you are starting to root for the very bad bad guy just because the kids are starting to get a little ridiculous.

Now one thing that I did like a lot was Kalona, he is really starting to come into his own as a character and be more then just the winged immortal. He has a soul has feelings and he truly is trying to get back on the good side of the Goddess. Watching his struggle is so very human and enjoyable. Maybe the fact that he is not a teenage brat is helpful as well because he you know acts like an adult.

Like many I have stuck with the series this long I am going to stick until the end, I just feel myself getting a bit happier that the end is very near now. Oh and for the record we really don’t learn as much about Neferet as they claim we will…at least nothing interesting.

My Gemstone Rating:

Booking through Thursday 12/5/13

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This one is Hosted at the Booking through Thursday Blog.

Well I waited til now and no new question yet for today. So since I did not do last weeks I thought I would use last week’s and will edit the post to include this weeks later when it gets posted. 🙂

Do you have a reading equivalent of holiday music to get you in the mood for the holiday season? Any books you make a point of reading this time of year?

I will be honest when it comes to this time of year I tend to be a bit of a scrooge and I have not read that many holiday themed books. That said I plan on reading a couple this year or at least one just to see if it helps me get more into the spirit of the season.

Teaser Tuesday 12/3/13

December 3, 2013 - Ambrosia 7 Comments

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Thantos raised her brows, “I shall ignore the vulgarity and accept the compliment, Prophetess.” ~ Revealed P.C & Kiristin Cast pg. 139

Musing Monday 12/2/13

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