Author: Ambrosia

Musing Monday 12/5/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random question: Do you visit your local library regularly? If so, what’s your earliest memory of visiting a library?

I used to go all the time, alas these days I do not go to the library as often as I used to. I have a lot of early memories at the library in Roseville, MN. My Mom always encouraged us to read so we had a weekly run for as long as I can remember. In the summer we usually made a fast night trip and one big weekend trip. I remember getting stacks and stacks of books and playing Oregon trail on the library computer. I always did a little jig when I could have two time slots on the computer to play. Silly I know, but I remember that. Then I would leave with a whole sack of books and I would read them all.

Pardon the dust

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Please pardon the dust around the blog as I work on getting the new theme completely installed. It is a wonderful theme and I am very excited to be taking this next step forward in my book blogging adventure! It is a little scary leaving behind Fire & Ice, but I feel like the same was right.

So welcome, have a look around and mind any dusty areas.

Teaser Tuesday 11/29/16

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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along with Teaser Tuesday! 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! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

” It was near the end of Stefan Rossetti’s fourteenth year that his father, the commander of The Viking long ship Sja and its fleet of seven ships, at least agreed to take him aboard. Standing on the beautiful Scandinavian shore, his smile was wide and he was certain no happier laddie ever was or ever would be again. ” 1% The Viking by Marti Talbott

Musing Monday 11/28/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random question: If you were a character, which author would you trust with your life (to write your story)?

This is a tough one, honestly I can’t narrow it down to just one. I think I would say either Lauren Willig, J.R Ward, or Stephanie Laurens. Either way I will end up with a nice hunk who has a firm loyalty to his lady. In a Lauren Willig I could also have fun being my own spy type lady. While J.R Ward, well her world is a good deal more dangerous then my other two choices, but come on The Black Dagger Brotherhood, they are worth the danger.

Changes are coming in 2017

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Sometimes you have to shake things up. I have been thinking about shaking the book blog up for the last year or so, I never took the plunge last year, but 2017 is going to be the year for change. It is hard to think that I have run this blog since the end of 2008. I started out over at blogspot with a free blog and was happy with it. Over the years, however, I have changed to my own domain and different theme’s and of course migrated to WordPress. The one thing that has always nagged at me since I got my domain name is that I was never able to get the exact name of the blog. Icewarmth.com has always been a play on the actual title of the blog, Fire & Ice. I thought if I waited long enough I would eventually get something close, alas, that just never seems to have materialized.

Now, as I sit here looking back over the year I think about all the things that have happened in 2016. All the changes that have happened in the world and in my life. The conclusion? It is time for a change up in the blog line up. The content itself will remain the same and I may be taking on the job of hosting some meme’s that I have been posting on this blog almost since the beginning, the current host is making changes in her blog life too. However, the domain name, the blog name and the theme will be changed. I will still keep icewarmth.com for the next year and just have it redirect so everyone can get used to the change, but the change is coming. The new book blog will be called….

The Purple Booker

A little silly, I know, but it suits me as many who know me will know. A fun play on Hooker yes (because I crochet, what were you thinking?) and a little play with one of my favorite book series by Lauren Willig. I am nervous and excited at the same time about the change. I hope that my lovely readers will be happy with the changes when they happen as well. I still have a lot of things to get in order before the change, but just couldn’t wait to make the announcement.

Book Review: Savage Season (Hap and Leonard #1) by Joe R. Lansdale

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A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn’t be more different. Hap is an east Texas white-boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that’s just the way they like it. So when an ex-flame of Hap’s returns promising a huge score. Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that’s when things get interesting. Chockfull of action and laughs, Savage Season is the masterpiece of dark suspense that introduced Hap and Leonard to the thriller scene. It hasn’t been the same since.

I became interested in Hap & Leonoard when James Purefoy signed on for the new TV series. I admit this is not usually a book I would have picked up on my own, without something to prompt me. With that said I am so glad that I did pick it up because this is a fantastic book! It is very fast paced and the things that Hap and Leonard get into, oh you can’t help but think of it as a comedy of errors sometimes. They may be best friends but they bicker like an old married couple and they really are polar opposites. I am looking forward to going forward with the series both book and TV. The book really is fantastic and gave me a lot of laughs. It filled in more details for me after watching the series, and I can appreciate that. Hap, oh all I can do with some of the things he does is shake my head his name seems to suit.

My Gemstone Rating:

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Teaser Tuesday 11/22/16

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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along with Teaser Tuesday! 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! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

“You know, a woman is considered helpless without a man. At least, that’s what people say. Well, I was able to take care of myself and live the way I wanted. Why should I give all that up just to be with a man?” She shook her head again. “No, it’s not for me.”
― Ellin Carsta, The Secret Healer

Musing Monday 11/21/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random Question: Are there any particular worlds in books in which you’d like to live?

Now this is a very curious question and my first instinct is to shout a resounding yes there are! When I take a moment to think about it, I still want to say yes, but with a little worry to it. No world is perfect and that holds the same for books. I also tend to read a lot of books set in history or our world with some differences. I know I am waffling back and forth here again. So I will say yes and I will also say which world. I would like to live in Harry Dresden’s world. It is enough like our world that I feel I would be comfortable and not out of place (it IS current, modern and our world) and then there is the plus of Wizards! Most of the world doesn’t know about them of course and there are some big bads, but overall yes I think it would be a great deal of fun. I mean there is Thomas and Bob and toot toot and of course Harry and mouse! Yes I think that would be a fun world to live in.

Teaser Tuesday 11/15/16

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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along with Teaser Tuesday! 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! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

“I’m sorry that you are hurting. It’s because of me that you are even here in the first place. I offered to get those passes so I could get to know you. There is something about you that feels so comforting and familiar, and I’m not sure why.”
― Chanda Hahn, Fairest

Musing Monday 11/14/16

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Musing Monday is hosted over at Books and a Beat.

Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…

Random Question: How has your reading changed in the last 10 years?

Well, this is a very loaded question because 10 years is a long time and even with my “mind palace” I can’t draw it all up sometimes. Pardon the starting of this with a ramble, I will blame it on my lack of sleep lately (yay insomnia). I have always been a reader. You can ask my Mom especially in the summer when we went once a week to the library I loved checking out piles and piles of books. I would get everything from comics like Calvin and Hobbes or Garfield (reminds me, I need to do a read of them again soon) to big thick books like Trinity by Leon Uris. As I got older I read less as life became life, I also felt a bit un-tethered as to what I wanted to read for a long time.

Once I was diagnosed with Lymphoma and was not able to do as much activity wise as I wanted to I started reading a lot again. I expanded my genre’s and was happy to devour just about anything at all. I was reading so many books my friends and family razzed me a little bit about it, especially when I started this very blog. I wanted to keep track of how many books I was reading and doing reviews on my own blog seemed a good way to go about it. 2009 this blog started with a cheesy theme on blogspot. I eventually updated theme’s, then bought a domain and lastly made the migration to hosting my own site and using the WordPress plugin. A choice I will never regret.

Then I started to crochet and had to deal with a cross country move due to personal life problems. My reading has suffered some since then. I am still reading don’t get me wrong and as you can see I still do reviews, but not as much as I used to. I am struggling to find the balance between work, crochet, reading and blogging. I am sure I will find the right balance eventually, or I will swing back into a cycle of devouring book after book. Crochet has been the dominating thing in my life for the last several years. I don’t write to pen pals as much as I used to, I haven’t found new ones to replace ones that just stopped writing and I have not mastered the ability to read a hard copy book while crocheting. I really do hope in the future to strike a better balance between things. I miss reading as much as I used to but crochet has truly turned into my Zen place. I have often told people that to me crochet is like meditation is to other people, and with high stress levels the last few years I need it. I am very hard on myself when I don’t meet reading or review goals, but I am working on that.

So there you have a very long muse about my reading habits over the last 10 years. They have been up and they have been down and they have been all around. However, I always read. Reading is a passion and even if I am in a down period I still read because I love it. I enjoy living the many lives you can while reading a good book. I feel as long as I still enjoy it and manage some time for reading I am okay. The balance will eventually come.

I hope everyone enjoyed my little bit of rambling this Musing Monday.

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