While I may no longer have the relationship I once did with my Father. That said I wish all the Fathers out there a Happy Fathers day. Whether they are Bio dads, pet Dads, going to be Dads or just Dad influences on someones life. You rock 🙂
Friday Finds 6/13/14
This is another one hosted over at Should be Reading
Here are my finds for this week I have a bit to much fun with the one click button.
Book Review: Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6) by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas-a vampire of dubious integrity-only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.
Another solid installment in the Dresden files, the more I get into these the more I enjoy them. I know there are some editing issues and I know some people have a fit over Harry’s use of Hells Bells or whatever but you know SOD IT. I read to have fun, I read to enjoy the book and as long as the editing isn’t so bad that it interferes with my enjoyment (yes have read those) I am okay with some issues, nothing is after all perfect. I love this universe.
Thomas is perhaps my favorite character next to Harry, he can have some issues but I like him. He tries to be good and he tries to do his best by the people around him. It is not his fault that he was born a Vampire of the white court. No more then it was Harry’s fault he was born a very powerful Wizard. A little spoiler reference there I won’t give it away. Overall this has quickly become my new favorite series and I am a bit obsessed with it. Sorry Miss Blake I know I have a lot of your books left to read but I am currently loving a Wizard named Harry…who does not have a counterpart called Voldemort.
My Gemstone Rating:
Booking through Thursday 6/12/14
This one is Hosted at the Booking through Thursday Blog.
How do you feel about explicit detail in your reading? Whether language, sex, violence, situations and so on … does it bother you? Faze you at all? Or do you just read everything without it bothering you?
I don’t mind explicit detail at all. I in fact regularly read naughty books and books that have some serious battles in them. I know they bother some people but it doesn’t bother me at all. Depending on the book I think it is needed, other times no. Overall however it does not bother me.
WWW Wednesday 6/11/14
This is another one hosted over at Should be Reading
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What are you reading next?
Currently reading:
Recently finished:
Up next:
Teaser Tuesday 6/10/14
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!
“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
Musing Monday 6/9/14
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!
Sharing one of the books I am currently reading or more accurately listening too. I do love mes some Harry Dresden I thought I would get through it in one day but I ended up getting distracted by a Netflix binge, totally not Harry’s fault it is excellent.
There’s an entire world that exists alongside the everyday life of mankind. There are powers, nations, monsters, wars, feuds, alliances – everything. Wizards are part of it. So are a lot of other things you’ve heard about in stories, and even more you’ve never heard of…Vampires. Werewolves. Faeries. Demons. Monsters. It’s all real.
Harry Dresden knows full well that such creatures exist. Paranormal investigations are his stock-in-trade, and Chicago is his beat as he tries to bring law and order to a world that exists on the edges of imagination. Luckily Harry’s not alone in this struggle. And though most inhabitants of the Windy City don’t believe in magic, there’s a department that’s been set up within the Chicago PD to deal with “strange” cases: the Special Investigations department.
Karrin Murphy is the head of SI and a good friend of Harry’s. So when a deadly vampire threatens to destroy Murphy’s reputation unless Harry helps her, he has no choice. The vampire wants the Word of Kemmler and all the power that comes with it – but first Harry has to determine what the Word of Kemmler is. Now Harry is in a race against time – and six necromancers – to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead.
Sunday Salon 6/8/14
Been working on catching up on some reading this week and Sunday is going to shape up to be some more of that. I also have a 3,000 word book to ghost write. I am a bit nervous about it but I think I will do okay with that.
I finished Blood Rites in the Dresden series and it nearly gave me a heart attack, my review for the book will be up soon. Next I have been working on the book I started a few weeks ago all my love deterick sadly my kindle crudded out on me while I was really enjoying it. Not so very fun on that one reason I still love my regular books!It is all charged up though and I may spend some time reading it again.
I also started the next in the Harry Dresden book. Love Dresden. I really do love Harry. Truly.
Booking through Thursday 6/5/14
This one is Hosted at the Booking through Thursday Blog.
What’s the furthest you’ve ever gone to get something to read? (Think extremes as well as miles—wrangling a ride from a stranger to a distant bookstore just to get the newest book from a favorite author?) If your absolute favorite author (living or dead) was coming out with a brand new book tomorrow, how far would you go, what would you do to get a copy?
The furthest I have gone..well that was when they released Breaking Dawn. I had to arrange for a ride with a friend because the release party was late, I personally don’t like big parties but the only way to get the book was to go to the party. So I arranged a ride, stayed up late, played all sorts of party games with teens and in the end got my book.
Teaser Tuesday 6/3/14
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!
“An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
