A Guilty Pleasure Book This is an extremely difficult question for me, because I really don’t have a guilty pleasure book. Having a guilty pleasure book implies that you are ashamed or embarrassed in some way about the book you… Read More ›
Online Writing
Cats Creep the Fire to Art by Matthew Ward
Opening Sentence: Slit scars across your wrists must mean you tried. Synopsis: N/A Genre: Poetry Rating: @@@@ Pages: 132 BCID: xxx-6265782 ISBN: 978-1-934209-22-6 Year: 2008 Format: Paperback Comments: Cats Creep the Fire to Art is a collection of the works… Read More ›
Darkness Creeping by Neal Shusterman
Opening Sentence: History tells of a man named Pavlov. Synopsis: Imagine being trapped forever in someone else’s nightmare, with no means of escape. Or caught on one of the most terrifying roller coasters of all time, when suddenly the tracks… Read More ›
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
Opening Sentence:We all went down to the tar-pit, with mats to spread our weight. Synopsis:‘And through the silence comes something immense and leisurely, that sheds the filth of heavens from it’s dusty wings…Whatever it is, it comes for all of… Read More ›
Splinter by Adam Roberts
Opening Sentence:Hector flew in. Synopsis:When Hector discovers his estranged father has channeled the family fortune into a bizarre survivalist sect who await the imminent destruction of the Earth, he is wracked by feelings of betrayal and doubt. Things change, however,… Read More ›
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Opening Sentence:He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. Synopsis:The short novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952), winner of the… Read More ›
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Opening Sentence:Flames shot high, turning the night lurid with carnival light. Synopsis:I will howl for you, human boy, she thought. I will hunt you in my girl skin, but I’ll celebrate as a wolf… Vivian relishes the change: the sweet,… Read More ›
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Opening Sentence:When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Synopsis:A father and son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged… Read More ›
Books I Read In July 2008
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King The Spare Room by Helen Garner World Famous Cults & Fanatics by Colin & Damon Wilson A Time To Kill by John Grisham Reign of Terror: Great Victorian Horror Stories edited by Michel Parry… Read More ›
Books I Read In June 2008
Top Ten: Writer’s Pick Their Favorite Books edited by J. Peder Zane Fish Who Answer the Telephone and Other Bizarre Books by Russell Ash & Brian Lake Letter To D: A Love Story by Andre Gorz, translated by Julie Rose… Read More ›
Spellbinder by Stephen Bowkett
Synopsis:“Now you see it, now you don’t.” Tony can hold an audience spellbound with his glass marble trick, and secretly he hopes his skill will impress Linda, a girl whom so far he has only dared admire from a distance…. Read More ›
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 