Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by A Striped Armchair and Out of the Blue that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.
Here is what I checked out this week:
- Singularity by Kathryn Casey
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Happy Monday!! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week. Here’s what I received:
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I have been busy trying to finish a book, that I just reviewed and am trying to avoid the bookstore and Amazon.com, other then just getting book synopsis from there and MP3 downloads.
Since I have 4 library books to finish and am now behind on my challenge reads, I do not mind one little bit that I got no books this week.
Product Description (from Amazon)
After middling pharmaceutical company executive Clyde Young boards an airplane to attend a national meeting to make a presentation concerning his employer’s premium drug, his schedule is thrown into a curve when terrorists hijack the plane. After refusing to keep his head down, he is hurled out with a parachute that barely functions.
He is able to survive in the wilderness, but upon his arrival back to civilization, no one believes his story. They assume he is one of the terrorists that hijacked the airplane, so Young escapes to Las Vegas to determine why he was targeted and who was responsible for his ordeal. He lives as a street person and meets four people who believe his story: a sociopath, a prostitute, an alcoholic doctor and a pickpocket.
These people become his allies. They travel with him to the east coast and then to Europe. As Young continues his investigation, he discovers abuses on the part of his employer that could result in mortal danger for innumerable innocent patients. He must act quickly to expose the danger by staying one step ahead of the unknown criminals who are closing in on him and his allies.
My review:
This was a very hard book for me to finish, the amount of incredible things that happened to Clyde was one factor, yes it is fiction, but it does have to be believable to some extent. Something else was that his voice kept changing, one minute he is talking like ‘a middling pharmaceutical company executive’ the next minute like a clinician. I also found tiring the attention to bodily ailments, the rash from the elk skin, then the boils from the wolf skin, the effects certain food had on his gastro-intestinal system. For me this all added up to a very boring book.
I received an e-mail from Chris Tusa, a writer from New Orleans whose debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is being released from the University of West Alabama on March 1st, a summary of the novel follows:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses’s lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses’s twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
Please visit his web site and read the first chapter: Chris Tusa
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I love these things! I found this one on Bonnie’s blog um, oh, it’s called, oh snap! Just click on the link!
Thanks for all your lovely comments on my post ‘This hurts me‘. I should mention that this park is next to a Junior High School and across from the JHS is the High School. I know that students walk through this park on their way home from school. So it is possible that the book was left there by a pre-teen or teenager. Still, if any of my kids treated a book like that, I would have hung them up by their ears!
Happy Monday!! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week. Here’s what I received:
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
Sad Cypress: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
Appointment with Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
The Mystery of the Blue Train: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie
All of these were on the clearance table at Barnes & Noble, I only went in to get a snack before going to the gym since I was going there straight from the doctor’s and wasn’t going home. And then when I looked at the table I decided I would get the one book (Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin), because it was on my TBR list. Then when I went back to the table, I saw the Agatha Christie books, half price and so pretty! One is blue, one pink, one yellow and red. I will have to scan the covers when I review them.
I found this at the park, on one of the picnic tables, written on, front cover missing, first page torn.
As I was leaving, I found this on the grass between the picnic table and the parking lot. I don’t know if you can see from the cover, but the book is Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I know some people might be thinking, “Oh its just a cheap paperback.” To me it is important, I feel cheap paperbacks are printed to encourage people to read, they should not be scribbled on and torn and left in parks! Unless you’re releasing them. But I can think of lots of better places to ‘release‘ a book.
Marta at Marta’s Meanderings is giving away copies of Terror. Click on this link to read a review and enter to win.
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Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by A Striped Armchair and Out of the Blue that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.
Here is what I checked out this week:
- The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton: a novel by Jane Smiley.
- The devil’s feather by Minette Walters.
- Year of wonders: a novel of the plague by Geraldine Brooks.
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