According to the regular old English-language dictionary, taphophile (pronounced taf′ō-fil) is an interest in cemeteries, funerals. According to medical dictionaries taphophilia is a morbid attraction to the same. Trust doctors to make a passion into an illness. Pffft! I am also a bit of an insomniac. Two or three o'clock rolls around and I'm wide... Continue Reading →
TBR and Sookie, Sookie Sookie
So many books; so little time. My TBR pile is getting larger and larger. Knowing there are plenty in the TBR makes me very happy. Knowing my favorite authors have great reads coming to my DTR (Dying To Read) pile makes me ecstatic. Soon Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones is coming out.... Continue Reading →
Poor Vishous
I used to wonder if my Kindle -- Vishous -- got indigestion because of the junk reading I do. Like junk food, junk reading has just a bunch of sweet, salty, fluffy filler that will rot the teeth (or should that be "brain"). Also called (by me) place markers, these are the snacks poor Vishous... Continue Reading →
Death, Doom and Detention
I just finished this one. Damn! I am loving this series -- to the extent that I was upset at the ending. I wasn't upset with the way the ending was written. I wasn't upset with the writer for writing the ending the book in this way. I was upset with Lorelei for making the... Continue Reading →
Place holders
That's what I feel like I'm reading now: place holders. Books that I might not normally read, I am reading now. There are so many books coming out soon by authors I love. I don't want to start a book that I won't want to put down when Death, Doom and Detention or Lover at... Continue Reading →
Credits on the horizon
Hachette, Harper Collins, and Simon & Schuster have settled a lawsuit about price fixing of e-books. Penguin and Macmillan have yet to settle. Random House was apparently not part of the suit. I don't expect to receive much back because most of the books I buy are Penguin, Macmillan or Random House. However, I feel... Continue Reading →
It's My World 