A brief (by my standards) NON-SPOILER review.
Well, it happened. I had my first experience with AMC Theatre’s new movie pricing. Ouch! It has been forever since I’ve went to a movie on a Friday or Saturday night so I knew there would be no discounts applied, but ugh! 10 bucks a pop! $20 for my wife and I to see a movie!!! I could literally have waited and purchased the DVD for that price. And possibly had some change for a Pepsi left over. That is painful!
Kill Now, Pay Later ~Robert Terrall
–1960, reprint 2007
–220 pages, Hard Case Crime
–4/5 stars
It is Friday, normally Friday Favorites time, but a storm that knocked out internet service last night means that instead you get me desperately attempting to catch up on my overdue book reviews. But hey, you also get a couple of great Robert McGinnis illustrations, so it isn’t all bad news!
Most of us have seen what has come to be known, by many, as Book Porn. Defined roughly as the guilty pleasure pictures that bloggers post of their latest book treasures, book porn is a lot of fun.
Taking a cue from the gaming industry I’m going to twist this a bit and give you some Book Pron! Today’s post features a baker’s dozen, plus one, of upcoming releases that I simply have to have. In many cases I have already pre-ordered these books.
My hope is to share my excitement about some upcoming titles and maybe, just maybe, grab myself a few more points on Debi’s list.
For each book I provide a link, the planned release date, an italicized blurb about the book borrowed from the link site, and occasionally my own commentary.
This first book is:
Otherworldlies ~Jennifer Anne Kogler
June 17
Fern communicates with her dog, blisters from just moments in the sun, and has correctly predicted the daily weather for more than two years. Even so, she’s always seemed to be a normal twelve-year-old girl . . . until one day when Fern closes her eyes in class and opens them seconds later on a sandy beach miles away from school. When Fern disappears again, this time to a place far more dangerous, she begins to realize exactly how different she is.
I just stumbled across this book, and the author’s site, the other day but the cover image drew me in and the story sounds interesting. I must admit that I feel a bit strange about the cover image in regards to it representing a story about a 12 year old girl. Maybe I’m getting old, but that admittedly cute girl does not look 12 to me. That oddity aside, I plan on checking this out.
(Snow White, Anne-Julie Aubry)
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
~Ursula K. LeGuin
Way back on March 21st it seemed that a nearly endless journey was before us. The Once Upon a Time II Challenge began. Through the course of the past 3 months nearly 100 people have joined in our challenge and, to date, there are 407 book reviews on the Once Upon a Time II Review Site. That is very impressive and I am sure it will become even more impressive in our final 11 (if you count today) days of the challenge.
The Fall, an elaborate and beautiful fairytale of a film, is one that you should know about and be anticipating every bit as much as the other films coming out this summer–but chances are pretty good that you haven’t heard of it. In one of those serendipitous moments of discovery I recently clicked on a link for the trailer on Movie-List dot com and was undone.
See for yourself: