Finished A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole. This is the first book in her popular Immortals After Dark paranormal romance series. I’ve heard a lot of folks buzzing about this series, so I decided to give it a try. This one’s about Emma Troy, a half-vampire, half-Valkyrie who journeys to Paris to try to find information about her →

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Finished Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories by Ian Fleming. Why? Because I’m a fangirl of all things Bond-related and the new movie comes out Nov. 14 (I can’t wait!). 😎 As the title suggests, this book features James Bond short stories, including For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, and Quantum of Solace. One of the →

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Finished Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter. This is another one of his Southern thrillers about the Swagger family. In the interest of full disclosure, I actually work with Hunter’s daughter, although we are in different departments of the newspaper. This book is about Earl Swagger, an Arkansas policeman who journeys down to Thebes, Mississippi, to rescue his friend/father figure/lawyer →

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Finished Thrill Me to Death by Roxanne St. Claire. This is the second book in her popular Bullet Catchers romantic suspense series. In this one, Bullet Catcher Max Roper is assigned to protect wealthy widow Cori Peyton, who suspects her billionaire husband was murdered. At one point, Max and Cori were engaged, before Cori’s dad died while out on a →

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Finished Swine Not? by Jimmy Buffett. Not sure if I’m mentioned this on the blog before or not, but I’m a huge Parrothead. I’ve got all his albums and all his books, and one of my dreams is to see him live in concert. So anytime Buffett comes out with something new, I buy it. (Much to Wheezley’s chagrin. He →

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