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On ghosts, Die Hard, and my favorite wizard detective:
Jim Butcher’s Grave Peril starts off with a bang – very much in medias res – and doesn’t let up until the final page.  The opening pages of Grave Peril has Harry Dresden, our heroic wizard, speeding in his car with his knight friend Michael, on his [...]

On end of the year best-of lists, a retrospective look at the highlights of 2009, YA books, new discoveries, dark magic, and a whole lot of good reading:
I’m sure you’ve never heard me say this before, but I love end-of-the-year best-of lists.  I love the ones published by newspapers and magazines and especially those published [...]

On delicious sweet potato pie and thankfully reading weekend:
First things first: happy Thanksgiving Day to all of my American ladies and gents!  May your table be abundantly full with turkey, and yams, and beets, and corn, and stuffing, and pie, and… I’m making myself hungry.  Lately, I’ve been spending Thanksgiving with my family or BiblioGuy’s [...]

On missing out on that good fun:
I fully intended to participate in today’s 24-Hour Readathon.  After all, how in the world could I miss it after I’d had so much fun participating in the last one?  I was so psyched that I had the 4 or 5 books I’d planned to read set aside weeks [...]

Yesterday, Mari tagged me for the weekly meme, What’s on Your Desk Wednesday?, hosted by Sassy Brit of Alternative-Read.com. (Thanks, Mari!)  The rules are:
Grab a camera and take a photo of your desk! Or anywhere you stack your books/TBR pile. And no tidying!
Tag at least 5 people!
Or, if you’re digital camera-less, you can:
List at least [...]