I’ve been slack in my reading lately, but I finally finished Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines this weekend, marking the 800th book I’ve read since I’ve been keeping count. Goblin Quest focuses on Jig, a scrawny, little nearsighted goblin who gets roped into leading a group of adventurers through a mountain filled with all kinds of nasty things. There →

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Finished Ask the Parrot by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake). It’s about Parker, the coolest, calmest, coldest thief ever. When we last saw Parker, in 2004’s Nobody Runs Forever, he was climbing up a hill, trying to evade the police. Ask the Parrot picks up right where the last book left off. Parker gets to the top of the hill, →

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Happy New Year! 🙂 I started things off right today by finishing a book, Flirting with Danger by Suzanne Enoch. 52 more to go for the year … It’s about Samantha Jellicoe, a professional thief who gets more than she bargained for when she breaks into the mansion of sexy millionaire Richard Addison. Sam is suspected of murder, and she →

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Today, I’m going to blog about the last book I read in 2007 – Girl’s Guide to Witchcraft by Mindy Klasky. It’s about Jane Madison, a rather insecure librarian who discovers a treasure trove of witchcraft books in the rundown cottage she’s forced to move into. Lots of chick-lit hijinks ensue, like Jane accidentally casting a love spell that goes awry. →

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Finished Enchanted, Inc. by Shanna Swendson this weekend. It’s about Katie Chandler, a woman from a small Texas town who heads to New York to find fame and fortune — or at least a decent job. Katie is an ordinary woman — so ordinary that she’s immune to magic. Naturally, Katie gets a job seeing through illusions for a magic-based →

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