Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Underrated Authors or Books in X genre — I chose mystery. And by “underrated”, I mean “less well-known or widely-read than they ought to be.” In a few cases,… Read more »
Author: Lark_Bookwyrm
The House of the Four Winds, by Mercedes Lackey (review)
House of Four Winds Series: One Dozen Daughters #1 on August 5, 2014 Add to Goodreads The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince’s future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor, Princess Clarice… Read more »
Sunday Post – 9/07/14
The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. I feel… Read more »
News & Notes – 9/06/14
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Goodreads has added previews to some of its titles using Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader…. Read more »
Loving Rose, by Stephanie Laurens (review)
Description: Miraculously spared from death, Malcolm Sinclair erases the notorious man he once was. Reinventing himself as Thomas Glendower, he strives to make amends for his past, yet he never imagines penance might come via a secretive lady he discovers living in his secluded manor. Rose has a plausible explanation… Read more »
Of Merlot and Murder, by Joni Folger (review)
Foul play at the festival When her family’s winery becomes one of the sponsors at the Lost Pines Food and Wine Festival, Elise Beckett’s spirits soar at the chance to help with their booth. But as the festival gets underway, her cheerful mood turns sour when rival vintner Divia Larson… Read more »
In the Dragon’s Eye: The Night Garden
In the Dragon’s Eye is where I share the books I’ve got my acquisitive eye on: the ones I’m really excited about and hope to read and perhaps add to the hoard. I also link to “Waiting On” Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Cover links take you… Read more »
Top Ten Characters That Would Have Sat at My Lunch Table
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Characters That Would Have Sat at My Lunch Table. I wasn’t terribly popular in elementary and middle school; I was bookish and introverted and not very athletic. I spent… Read more »
Awesome Book Cakes
Cakes have gone way beyond the simple round, two-layer frosted cake we all associate with birthdays. These days, cake-making has become an art, and cake-makers vie to create the most beautiful or astounding cakes. A fair number of them are inspired by books. There are children’s book cakes: Alice in… Read more »
Sunday Post – 8/31/14
The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. Last weekend… Read more »