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It's Monday! What are you reading?

This week I am reading The Last Track by Sam Hilliard and The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting.  I am interested in the similarities and differences between these two books.  Each book has a main character with a supernatural ability to find people.  Mike Brody in The Last Track can track missing persons by receiving a vision of them while placing his hand in one of their footprints and Violet Ambrose in The Body Finder can find dead bodies by sensing the echoes they leave behind.  I will be r...

In My Mailbox (5/23)

This week I received some wonderful books In My Mailbox.

For review for authors on tour I received The Last Track by Sam Hilliard and Red Rain by Tim Wendel.

Books I ordered and received from Amazon this week included The Masquerade (Blue Bloods, book 2), Revelations (Blue Bloods, book 3), The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, book 4) by Melissa de la Cruz, Frostbite (Vampire Academy, book 2), Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, book 3) by Richelle Mead, and Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

What did you get in...

Guest Author Interview: Brian L. Porter

Today I would like to welcome guest author Brian L. Porter.  Brian is the author of Pestilence, Dracula Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Kiss of Life, Purple Death, Avenue of the Dead, The Voice of Anton Bouchard and Other Stories, and A Study in Red: The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper.


Interview with Brian L. Porter
EJ: When did you begin writing?
Brian:  I only started writing my novels about 5 years ago, after a successful spell as a poet and short story writer. It seemed a natural...

300 Follower Giveaway!

From the Shadows is now at 300 Followers.  Wow! Thank you all so much. You're the best! 

**Giveaway**
I'm going to keep this giveaway simple.  Since it is a follower giveaway you must be a follower of this blog to enter.  Please leave a comment on this post, including your email address, to enter.  Links, Twitters, and reposts are appreciated but I won't be adding extra points to this giveaway.  Now on to the prizes!

I recently read and reviewed Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, book 1) by Melissa de l...

On My Wishlist (5/22)

Touch of Fate by Christine Amsden

Marianne can predict the future but is powerless to alter its course. After a lifetime spent coming to terms with an ability that has cost her much, including her marriage, Marianne moves halfway across the country to make a fresh start and salvage her relationship with her daughter, who has inherited her terrible ability.
Once there, Marianne is drawn to a group of women who share her ability. She starts to find meaning and purpose--until she finds one o...

Book Review: Poison Study

Poison Study (Study, book 1) by Maria V. Snyder

Murder, mayhem and magic...

Locked in a coffin-like darkness, there is nothing to distract me from my memories of killing Reyad.  He deserved to die--but according to the law, so do I.  Here in Ixia, the punishment for murder is death.  And now I wait for the hangman's noose.  But the same law that condemns me may also save me.  Ixia's food taster--chosen to ensure that the Commander's food is not poisoned--has died.  And by law, the next...

Book Blogger Hop (May 21)

Hello everyone.  It's Friday!  Let's do the Hop!

The Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Crazy for Books .  This is a wonderful way to discover new book blogs and meet other fabulous bloggers.

Sharing Daniel Henney

While watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine last night I was startled to see this gorgeous face and was like, "That's Henry from My Lovely Sam-Soon"!  Daniel Henney the actor who played Henry in My Lovely Sam-Soon, a romantic and comic Korean TV drama, was doing flips in the air with guns blazing as Agent Zero.  After seeing him as mild mannered Henry I had to admit that Agent Zero was a startling contrast and I'm looking forward to seeing Daniel in his recent role as Dr. David Lee in Three...

Waiting on Wednesday: Other

Other by Karen Kincy

Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she's Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don't exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn't bad enough, Gwen's on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she's scared he'll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves.

When a pack of...

Got Wolverine?

I'm taking a short break from reading this evening to watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine .  I missed this movie while it was in theaters and decided to light up my magic wall with Hugh Jackman tonight.