What's on the iPod: The Birthday Massacre|Sideways

What's on the Nightstand: The Weird Sisters|Eleanor Brown (halfway thru!)

Save the Words Word of the Day: Macellarious (adj) Pertaining to butchers

So now that I've shaken off this funk I let myself be thrown into by HERO, I want to share the gorging and book binging I've been indulging in lately.

Books I saw last year that I thought, oh hey, that sounds neat. Or, sadly, I was bespelled by the book cover, story be damned (in this rare case, it tu...
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So, I'm stuck. I'm stuck and unsatisfied. Despite all efforts I'm where I was six months ago with the Gingerbread. Unhappy, forcing things unnaturally and because of that, parts of the story are implausible. To remedy this, I braved the sweltering heat and bought four books in the genre I write.

I had, for a long time, eyed this one particular book. More drawn to the story of the author, I decided to pick up Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. At first, I wasn't impressed. It remi...

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