A lot of really cool Thrillers this month! Happy reading! Stay Close by Harlan Coben The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose Operation Ruby Slipper by John Meyer Scorpion Betrayal by Andrew Kaplan The Devil’s Bones by Larry D. Sweazy The Unseen by Heather Graham The Man from Primrose […]
STILL reading George R.R. Martin! Wow….a BIG book! But loving it…. There are 20 new Thrillers for your reading pleasure! Enjoy and Merry Christmas to all! If I Should Die by Allison Brennan Beyond the Darkness by Jaime Rush Gun Church and Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman A Vine in the […]
(Barry Eisler rocks!) Sandra at the Tracy, CA Barnes & Noble held this up for me to see when I sat down in my favorite spot. I jumped up, took it, and spent 30 minutes or so playing with it. VERY nice! Having the old Nook; I found […]
Surfing the Internet today I spotted this article from the NY Times stating that a new Nook eReader has been introduced! Very cool. Here are some basics of the $139 eReader: It is WiFi only, it uses e-ink technology so glare will not be a problem, the entire […]
Wow! This happened a lot faster than I thought it would just a couple of short years ago. I was surfing the Internet and saw this article from our friends at Computerworld. Amazon says it sells 105 Kindle based e-books (not counting the free e-books, so these are […]
Genre: Thriller Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers “Pirate Latitudes” was found as a complete manuscript after Michael Crichton’s death in 2008. I have read a lot of bad reviews of “Pirate Latitudes” and, foolishly, let those reviews stand in the way of my reading it in a timely manner. “Pirate […]
I ran across this article on CNN this morning. Very interesting and very scary for those of us who LOVE books, but, the changes in how bookstores evolve in the next few years will be interesting to watch. To summarize the article: Borders is going under chapter 11, […]
Genre: Thriller Rating: 4 WaterTowers (Extremely interesting) During the Revolutionary War, the British knew who the American intelligence operatives were and captured them. Good intelligence is key to winning a war. George Washington, with the help of Benjamin Tallmadge, formed a super secret organization called the Culper Spy […]
Genre: Thriller Rating: 4 Watertowers This is only available in electronic form. You can get it at several online locations including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. This is Barry’s first “self-published book”. “The Lost Coast” refers to a geographically challenged section of Northern California coast where US 1 […]
Genre: Thriller Rating: 4 Watertowers Donte Drumm has less than a week to live. He is at the end of a 10 year stay on death row in Texas for killing Sloan (Texas) High School Cheerleader Nicole Yarber. Her body was never found, and the evidence during the […]
This is very interesting, timely, and important discussion. The publishing world is changing and these two great authors are in the thick of it (as are we)….I have copied part of the conversation here. If you want to read the entire conversation, scroll down, and click on the […]
Genre: Thriller Rating: 4 WaterTowers This is more than an ARC. Jon sent me an email and asked if I wanted a PDF version of his upcoming book (June 21, 2011) now…..or wait for a paper version. Since I have the Nook, I figured it was time to […]
Here is a list of Thrillers and Mysteries that need to be read in order. I will add to this post regularly, so bookmark it and come back often.
There are 31 new Thrillers this month! Happy Reading!! 🙂 A Between the Lines Interview with William Bernhardt News from South Africa by Mike Nicol Gideon’s Sword by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child One Rough Man by Brad Taylor The Curse-Maker by Kelli Stanley Final Vector by Allan Leverone […]
If you have an eReader that can read Adobe’s ebook format (Nook, Sony Reader and some others….not Kindle) you can download and read books from the new Google ebookstore. Since it was just announced today, I have not had time to play with it on my Nook, but, […]
Galen at Tracy, CA Barnes & Noble asked if I wanted to play with the extra Color Nook he had in the back room. I practically jumped out of my seat! YES! Not having my trusty 5 year old Toshiba laptop with me, or my good camera, I […]
“V is for Vengeance” by Sue Grafton (sadly getting too close to “Y” :-(
