Until I read this, I didn’t know much about Mariel Hemingway, other than she’s Ernest’s granddaughter.  But she’s also a self-proclaimed health nut, and in this book she describes her methods. Divided into four quadrants, Food, Exercise, Silence, and Home, the book details how she maintains her health and sanity by integrating those four components [...]

For Christmas, my grandmother mailed me Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale. I had heard of the book, mostly because it’s my job to know about books, and I had read a review of it in People, but I didn’t really know anything about it. So I sat down to read it with no expectations or [...]

Storm Thief, by Chris Wooding First off, let me start out by saying that Chris Wooding is extremely cool. He’s one of those reliable authors; all of his books are different and have an independence about them, but they are all equally good. He just doesn’t disappoint. I was reading his bio online, and it’s [...]

I had John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things sitting on my nightstand for weeks. I kept renewing it, because even though I wanted to read it, I was just never in the mood. Finally, the other day I was just hanging around, so I picked it up and plunged in. What a treat! Set [...]

As I’m sure you know, Valley of Silence is the third and final book in Nora Roberts’s Circle Trilogy. I actually read it when it came out on Halloween, but I’m just now getting around to writing about it. So, here’s my take: it was kind of meh. Don’t get me wrong; I enjoyed it, [...]

Dance of the Gods is the second book in Nora Roberts’s Circle Trilogy. Although I really enjoyed it, it kind of fell prey to The Two Towers curse: it’s the middle part of an epic battle, so the reader is left without the excitement of the intro or the satisfaction of the finale. Nevertheless, Roberts [...]