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Fables Volume 6: Homelands by Bill Willingham

Spoiler alert for those who haven't read the previous volumes of Bill Willingham's Fables series.

In this volume, we follow Boy Blue's journey back to the Homelands where he seeks revenge for the death of his best friend, Pinnochio, and the imprisonment of his long lost love, Little Red Riding Hood. Through the use of a magic cloak not only does Boy Blue find out the true identity of the Adversary and the story behind his empire. Meanwhile back at Fabletown they welcome the Jungle Boy's, Mowgli,

A Fairy "Tail" of Kittens

Well, it actually started more out like a Grimm's fairy "tail", but I am foreseeing a happy ending (I hope).

Here is the back-story on this "tail." On the day we lost our beloved Trixi, I saw a red tabby in the neighbor's driveway, which struck me odd because I had never seen this cat before, in fact, we never see cats roaming loose in our neighborhood. Then the following day my husband was out doing yard work, turned around and there was the same cat standing in front of him. They stared at each

The Sandman Volume 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman

At the end of The Sandman Vol 10: The Wake, Neil Gaiman writes that he has always been bad at goodbyes, but I thought he did an excellent job in this last volume of Sandman by doing what he does best, telling stories. This was not at all how I thought the series would end, you would have thought by now I would have known that Mr. Gaiman would not do the obvious or even the next couple of obvious. Instead he ends with four unique stories of a surreal wake, an undying friendship, a Chinese sage tr

Weekly Kitty Dose

Free Ice-cream cone printable gift tags

I was trying to be more systematic with my blog entries and post my latest book read on Friday’s. Well this is Friday and as you will quickly notice, this is not a book post. Last week was the culprit, because I can blame the week vs. yours truly, right? It was one of those weeks where a million of this and that’s cropped up and thus even though I had the entry all ready to post on Friday, it did not get input until Tuesday. I am hoping to get back on track by next week, which trust me, that wil

More Curious Curse

The Edible Raven Blog has posted another sneak peak of The Curious Curse that will appear in the magazine's debut issue....love the Hotel Rue.

Stories Told in Stone: Cemetery Iconology A Manual for Genealogy Research by Gaylord Cooper

My sister and I got this book for our Mother for Mother’s Day. I am not a big non-fiction reader but since my sister and I have starting cemetery walking, I decided to give it a quick read before putting it in the gift bag. My sister and I are more in to the art and history of cemeteries and needless to say, per its title, this book is geared towards those researching their genealogy. However it still has some sections that I found very interesting. One was a listing of the major epidemics/pande

Sleeping Gretel

Such a little angel...when she is sleeping.

The Curious Curse - Sneak Peak

The Edible Raven Blog has a sneak peek of one of my stories, The Curious Curse, they will be publishing in their debut issue. LOVING the illustration by Pamela McCarville! If you have time and are curious please go and take a look.

Fables Volume 5: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham

**Spoiler alert for those who haven’t read Bill Willingham’s Fables Volume 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers.The 5th volume of Fables, The Mean Seasons, starts out with a story of Cinderella entrapping a Fable who is collaborating with the Adversary, but exactly whom is she working for? The Cinderella story is followed by a couple of other short stories about Bigby Wolf’s secret mission during World War II. Then on to the main event where we pick up after Fabletown survives its attack from the Adv