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Ten Commandments

Rajasharma M.sc.(Physics),M.Tech.(Metallurgy),M.A.(English)
Oct 16, 2009
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It is not my intention to hurt the sentiments or beliefs of any individual or a sect. Kindly apologize if it does appear to be disagreeable.
Rajas

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So glad to be indoors today. Wind gusts of 45 to 50 mph. The cats are snoozing away on fleece blankets.I'm reviewing a few soon to be read books (but I'm saving the Vox authors for a more exclusive, special post). Here are the new books I'll be reading over a snowman mug of hot chocolate:

Cook's Tour: The sexy author Bourdain wrote this a while ago. Travel, hot food and adventure. What more could a woman want?

Wind-up Bird Chronicles: (Thanks, Steve)! A Japanese man goes searching for his wife's cat and winds up in an underworld with strange characters. That's all I know about the plot. Sounds fun.

The Villain's Guide to Better Living: Funny story, I actually bought this for my sister but my bf thought it was too dark and weird to give to a family member. Now I'm stuck with it. Maybe I can give it to my friend Bones, she has the same humor noir that I do.

Princeton Encyclopedia of Birds: Yaaaaaaaaaaay!! I mean, that's nice. I now have both editions (mammal and bird). I can't say enough about this series. Buy them.

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

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Natural Born Charmer......

What a great book....this is another one of those modern day romance chic novels but it isn't the typical Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. This isn't the typical boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl and they live happily ever after.....there is a little more than that in this book. And even as a surprise some of the characters from Match Me If You Can have reappeared in this book as well.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips did it again and I would have to say this is one of my favorites from her.

Natural Born Charmer A Novel

susan phillips

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What I Did For Love....

What I Did for Love: A Novel

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Susan Elizabeth Phillips did it again....This is another modern day romance novel (like most of the books that I read). Much like most modern day romance novels, you can pretty much predict the ending from the first few pages...however, like most all of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' books, it's the well written story line that holds your attention and this one is no different.

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Booking Through Thursday: Life's Too Short

Steve Betz
Nov 12, 2009
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Suggested by JM:

“Life is too short to read bad books.” I’d always heard that, but I still read books through until the end no matter how bad they were because I had this sense of obligation. That is, until this week when I tried (really tried) to read a book that is utterly boring and unrealistic. I had to stop reading.
Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?

I've almost always completed books that I've started. Maybe because I usually read books that have been well-reviewed or maybe because I'm generally an optimist and that even after a slow start I hope that it might get better, or maybe I have a stick-to-it-iveness that says if you're going to start something you might as well finish it.

It

Stephen King

Speaking of of finishing it, that does remind me of one of the few books I didn't finish -- "IT" from Stephen King. Clocking in at over a thousand pages and at the apex of his drug-addled, no-one-will-edit-him 80s long windedness (Steve: more isn't always better) -- I plodded along in this for about 400 pages and then said, "No mas!"

Oddly, I know several people for whom this book was one of their favorites, but I couldn't stand IT.

Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 16) by Laurell K Hamilton

Heather Kay
May 3, 2009
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Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)

SPOILER ALERT!!! Ok so I finished the book. I thought it was too short, but I guess I just cant get enough of this series and will always want more. Out of the entire series this installment was my least favorite, however I still could not put it down. In my opinion, the flaw with this book was that there was not an actual villain, but it looks like Jason will be moving to the list of main characters.

Here is the blurb from the back of the book. Now the Old Bastard's Dying and I Won't Have Time to Forgive Him Before He Goes......Jason Schuyler is a werewolf. He's also one of Anita Blake's best friends, and sometimes her lover. And right now he needs her--not to be a vampire hunter, or a federal marshal, or a necromancer, or even for her rank in the werewolf pack, but because his father is dying. He needs Anita because she's a pretty woman who loves him, who can make him look like an everyday guy, who agrees to go home with him and help him say good-bye to the abusive father he never loved. The fact that Jason is about as much an everyday guy as Anita is a pretty woman is something they figure they can keep under wraps for a couple of days in small town. How hard can it be? Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks this weekend to make a move. Somehow she has cut the connection that binds Anita and Jean-Claude unable to sense what is happening. Dangerous even as she sleeps, buried in darkness for a thousand years somewhere beneath the old country of Europe, Marmee Noir reaches out toward power. She has attacked Anita before, but never like this. In Anita she senses what she needs to make her enemies tremble.

Here is the breakdown of what happened. Nathaniel talks Anita into going with Jason to see his terminally ill father in North Carolina, and to convince him that Anita is his girlfriend and Jason is not gay. It starts out with the usual Anita hang-ups about her relationships with the men in her life and now finding herself alone with Jason. She discovered that she is having more feelings for Jason than their normal friends with benefits relationship, even without the ardur into play.

Jason is mistaken for a distant cousin Keith, who happened to be the governors troublemaking son, who is back in town to get married. This causes a little conflict because Keith has run off with the master of the city's wife, and there are vampires out to kill him, and of course they think Jason is him.

In the meantime Marmee Noir decides to try and make Anita her human servant and raises the ardur to a level that it has never been before. This causes Anita to almost change into a tiger, Marmee Noir's animal to call. She also managed to put out a call to all of the waretigers across the country. She then wakes up in the hotel room two days later with Jason and two strange waretigers and doesn't remember much. As it turns out Anita rolled Crispin one of the tigers from Vegas and he becomes addicted to the ardur.

Jean Claude sends Richard to check on Anita when he could not feel her through the marks because their connection was temporarily cut by Marmee Noir's attempts to mark Anita. Apparently Anita broke Marmee Noir's hold on her by making Jason her Wolf to call and Marmee's cat was scared away. Anita doesn't realize that she did it until Richard comes and can tell because Jason's smell changed, and they are now aware of each others thoughts and feelings. Somehow the ardur is transfered to Richard and he tries to use it on Anita but is stopped by Jason. As always he gets angry with Anita because she will not solely commit to him and he leaves. Anita and Jason return to St Louis where I'm sure the next book will try and sort out all of the new drama with the addition of Jason as Anita's animal to call. Also Jean Claude said that per vampire etiquette Anita has to meet with all of the tigers that will respond to her call.

I only touched on the parts of the book that I think are essential to the Anita Blake story line.

Book 1 of 50 in 365 Challenge!

Deadly Desire (Riley Jenson Guardian Book 7) by Keri Arthur

Deadly Desire (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 7)

SPOILER ALERT!!! Ok I have finally finished Deadly Desire the seventh installment in the Riley Jenson Guardian Series. I found this book slow until the end, then when it got really good and I could not put it down it ended. However I can not wait until the next installment in the series, it does not come out until October. Here is the excerpt from the back of the book.

Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that’s exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used—and discarded—in a bizarre ritual of evil. With pressure mounting to catch one fiend, another series of brutal slayings shocks the vampire world of her lover, Quinn. So the last thing Riley needs is the heat of the upcoming full moon bringing her werewolf hormones to a boil—or the reappearance of a sexy bounty hunter, the rogue wolf Kye Murphy.

Riley has threatened Murphy with arrest if he doesn’t back off the investigation, but it’s Riley who feels handcuffed by Kye’s lupine charm. Torn between her vamp and wolf natures, between her love for Quinn and her hots for Kye, Riley knows she’s courting danger and indulging the deadliest desires. For her hunt through the supernatural underworld will bring her face-to-face with what lurks in a darkness where even monsters fear to tread.

Here is the real rundown. Riley is on the hunt for a vampire murderer using zombies to do their dirty work and comes across Kye's path (he was the guy that did some previous work for Anita's pack leader Blake) And at every crime scene he just keeps turning up and they both have to resist their desire towards one another. The case turns towards to two women who own a strip club. Riley has to go under cover as a stripper and get a job in the club where she can keep an eye on the two suspects and get a closer look at the club.

In the meantime Riley tells Quinn that he should take on other partners for blood because she has been feeling weak from al of the blood loss. Surprisingly this does not lead to an expected fight, he just says that he does not want to discuss it and that Riley is the only one for him.

Back at the strip club Riley runs across Kye again and they team up to get more info while resisting the increasing urge to be with one another. Riley and Kye sneak into an underground room where they find the place that the women conduct their sorcery and destroy their alter. They are immediately confronted by a half dozen zombies and the woman behind it all. Riley kills the woman but not before she shoots Kye. Riley was trying to get him to shift but he would not wake and then the second killer comes in and shoots Riley with a silver bullet. She wakens and is bound to a table with silver chains. She asks about Kye and discovers that he has bled to death and she suddenly wants to just curl up and die herself, which is shocking to her because she does not even like Kye. After a failed attack on the woman the door burst in an Kye shoots the woman dead. She is sooo relieved to see he is alive. The silver bullet in Riley's shoulder needs to be removed so Kye knocks her out to do the job.

When she wakes up she see Kye sitting in the comer of the room and tells him to go because she is calling in the Doctorate and he should not be there when they arrive because he is a hit man. He refuses to leave and tells Riley that before she calls it in they need to take care of some business. She knows that he wants to have sex and her urge so strong that she cant resist. Instantly they realize that they are soul mates. Riley does not know that to do because this is not what she wants so she just cries. Kye says that he does not want this either and that they should just go their separate ways. Anita agrees and they leave but she knows that it is not the end of Kye.

Anita has to go and tell Quinn that she found her soul mate and is afraid she will no longer want him anymore now that her wolf has found Kye. She hopes that her wolf half can have a soulmate and that her vampire half can have another. She does not tell Quinn right away because she wants to test the theory of two soul mates. As it turns out she is still attracted to Quinn and believes that she can have two soul mates if he is okay with her having another. She tells Quinn and he says that he has fought for her this long he had no intentions on stopping now, he just did not want to know who it was because he would kill him.

Book 2 of 50 in 365 Challenge!

My Sisters Keeper....

I have been so busy with everything else going on, I haven't been reading near as much as I used to. I did read My Sisters Keeper and it was a great book.

This book highlights the true bond between sisters even though one is constantly out shinning the other one.

And as always....Jodi Picoult grabs your attention from page one and keeps it throughout the entire novel.

MY SISTERS KEEPER

Jodi Picoult

Enjoy!

Happy Reading!

Strange Bed Persons....

This book was pretty cute as most all of Jennifer Cruise's books can be.....of course it is a mondern day romance novel and this one even has a little political spin.

If you're looking for something not too serious, this is a funny one for you

Strange Bedpersons

Jennifer Crusie

Enjoy!

Happy reading!

Ten Commandments

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Natural Born Charmer......

What I Did For Love....

Booking Through Thursday: Life's Too Short

Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 16) by Laurell K Hamilton

Deadly Desire (Riley Jenson Guardian Book 7) by Keri Arthur

My Sisters Keeper....

Strange Bed Persons....

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