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Marlene rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
Originally published at Book Lovers Inc.

“I’m Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.” THE END.

Except for the capitalized end, Sookie pretty much declaring that there’s no place like home really is the last line of Dead Ever After. We just had to read throu...more
Marlene rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The World's Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne
Originally published at Reading Reality

The first chapter of The World’s Strongest Librarian should be required reading for people who want to become librarians. Especially the ones who have a completely romanticized view of what it is like to actuall...more
Marlene rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Wife in Name Only by Hayson Manning
Wife in Name Only
by Hayson Manning (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Originally published at Reading Reality

I wanted to read something quick and fun, so I picked Wife in Name Only from my TBR stack, and it definitely filled my need for something light, sexy and with a sweet HEA at the end. There was just the right tou...more
Marlene rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Roots of Betrayal by James Forrester
Originally published at Reading Reality

“The roots of betrayal lie in friendship; those of treason lie in loyalty.”

This quote could easily sum up this second volume of the trials and tribulations of William Harley, the Clarenceaux King of Arms. When y...more
Marlene rated a book 1 of 5 stars
The Right Bride by Jennifer Ryan
Originally published at Reading Reality

An idiot, a gold digger and a doormat walk into a bar...

That should be the start of a really bad joke. It’s also the plot of this train-wreck of a book, The Right Bride by Jennifer Ryan. I say train-wreck also i...more
Marlene rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Human Division by John Scalzi
The Human Division
by John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Originally published at Reading Reality

For some strange reason, probably because I read (and absorbed) Old Man's War and stayed fixated on the war, I made the assumption that the "division" in the title The Human Division was a military unit.

Bad assu...more
Marlene rated a book 4 of 5 stars
To Visit the Queen by Diane Duane
Marlene rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Back on Track by Donna Cummings
Back on Track
by Donna Cummings (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Originally published at Reading Reality

What do a dating slump and a pitching slump have in common? Allie Whitaker hasn't had a date in too long to think about, and Matt Kearns is coming off an injury and looking at the end of his professional basebal...more
Marlene rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Originally published at Reading Reality

Scarlet could be called the cybernetic fairy tales, part two. This is the second book in Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, so if you haven’t read book one, her dystopian re-telling of Cinderella (Cinder, reviewe...more
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Arthur Conan Doyle
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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