tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79008140929774773962024-03-19T01:46:59.491-07:00The Novel BookwormLike most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with me. - "Losing Julia" by Jonathan HullKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.comBlogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-29165365798598818592015-11-18T17:05:00.000-08:002015-11-18T17:05:03.611-08:00Introducing our newest family member
Back in February, we realized that our pups, Cookie was now 10 years old. And we had said that we were going to get another cockapoo when she turned 6. Missed it by "that" much. So, I was off and running, in search of a cockapoo puppy we could rescue. My travels took me to a city here in southern California called East Rancho Dominguez. I had seen a picture of this puppy, the rest of the Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-30854701841272102222015-11-13T06:50:00.000-08:002015-11-13T06:50:00.056-08:00Plagued: The Ironville Zombie Quarantine Retraction Experiment (Plagued States of America Book Three)...could there be a longer title?
From the publisher:
"Book 3 of the Plagued States of America series. When
a helicopter carrying presidential hopeful Senator William Jefferson
crashes in the Quarantine Zone, zombie half-breed Penelope Hope is
enlisted into the most unorthodox rescue team ever assembled for a
mission to save the very man leading the effort to wipe out her kind
from the Plagued States of America... WithKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-61613913283277221522015-11-09T01:00:00.000-08:002015-11-09T04:24:19.275-08:00Nirvana by J.R. Stewart: Bliss or Bust?
Nirvana is the first book of a new series by J.R. Stewart. It tells the tale of a very annoying "animal activist/punk rocker" named Larissa Kenders. Larissa goes by the name of Kenders, because she has some negative weirdness about her first name and well, she's just too much the badass activist /rocker to have an ordinary name. Her brilliant scientist significant other; Andrew, hasKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-78991610124421596342015-10-15T15:14:00.002-07:002015-10-15T15:15:14.597-07:00My second "cancerversary" and its during "Pinktober"....Good Gawd, y'all..
And you guessed it, I'm gonna rant a bit. I don't wish to be unkind to my sisters and occasional brother who have suffered through breast cancer. And God Bless Susan Komen's family who have changed the face of breast cancer and awareness of the disease. But....good Gawd y'all.....I'M AWARE ALREADY, how much more aware do I have to be? Since when did cancer become a marketing opportunity?
And Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-54698714787913795642015-10-14T01:00:00.000-07:002015-10-14T15:12:51.267-07:00The Girl With No Past by Kathryn Croft: A Bullet Train of Suspense!
From the publisher:
Twenty years running from your past. Today it catches up.
A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.
Leah Mills lives a life of a fugitive – kept on the run by one
terrible day from her past. It is a lonely life, without a social life
or friends until – longing for a connection – she meets Julian. For the
first time she dares Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-78691220806572445772015-10-08T06:21:00.000-07:002015-10-08T06:23:09.723-07:00The Undying by Ethan Reid, a unique entry into post-apocayptic fiction!
In The Undying by Ethan Reid, an unknown calamity has befallen the planet. leaving nothing but death, destruction and oh yes...there be monsters. (Because the earth can't just drop dead...it's going to drop dead with panache!)
It's a little hard to categorize this novel. Apocalyptic--check. Post apocalyptic--check. Zombie--yup. Or are they Vampires? Certainly the monsters in this novel are Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-70768656553602501612015-10-03T14:22:00.000-07:002015-10-03T14:23:14.969-07:00Brother by Ania Ahlborn? Creepy, gory and scary!
I'm not a fan AT ALL, of gory, creepy, "hang people on a meathook" slasher flicks. And yet, I don't mind the genre at all book wise. Brother by Ania Ahlborn is just that type of book. ( Which probably indicates that I am seriously twisted in many ways....)
In Ania Ahlborn's "Brother", we meet Michael Morrow, and his completely batshit crazy Deliverance meets Psycho meets Texas Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-48463312929241559012015-09-28T02:00:00.000-07:002015-09-28T05:26:15.717-07:00Peter Meredith--Hooray for Zombie Lit! (Is that even a genre??)I have to begin my Peter Meredith post with a big THANK YOU to Book Bub for introducing my cheap miserly ass to this author. Back in January, I received my daily BookBub email with the list of freebies and almost freebies of the day. For some reason, I've been binge reading apocalyptic zombie stuff for the past couple years. I'm sure some shrink out there could look at me and give me a Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-90746702132607865862015-09-26T13:52:00.000-07:002015-09-26T17:48:23.934-07:00Homemade Granite Cleaner really works!I know, I know....GRANITE CLEANER???? What does that have to do with a book blog? The way I see it, if I can clean the kitchen fast and make the granite look good AND save a ton of money in the process...more time reading and more money for books!
Waaaaay back in 2008, here at the House of Unlimited Potential, you may remember the Hubs and I tore out our kitchen and redid the whole danged Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-65635723093398234552015-09-20T07:34:00.001-07:002015-09-20T07:34:47.784-07:00Vale of Stars by Sean O'Brien makes me want to read more Science Fiction!
Wow, okay, so its been a while and I'm pretty sure my reviewing skills are a might rusty. So please bear with me as I get my stuff together! Recently I was in a local bookstore and noticed a poster regarding a local author who would be signing books there. And even though I never, and I mean never read straight up "on another planet with the weird character names" science fiction, I said to Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-29552063056693424332015-09-18T10:09:00.002-07:002015-09-26T17:49:38.072-07:00So....I'm back and damn it's been a long time....
I've been absent from the blogosphere for quite some time. I wondered, "Should I just review a book, and ignore my long absence?" Is that weird? Yeah, it is. I mean lets face it. I haven't exactly been bashful in the past. You all know waaaay to much about pooper cancer thanks to me. So I decided to simply tell you about the past 18 months or so.
In short...2014 was a tough one. As was Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-64067932272476311152014-02-18T06:23:00.003-08:002014-02-20T08:14:26.535-08:00Choice
Choice. It's a funny thing, how I forgot about choices. When talking
about my treatments with my family, I always say, "Well, it's gonna
suck, but it's not like I have a choice....". And I've been thinking
about that, and I'm wrong. Saying I have no choice abrogates my own
responsibilities. And it ignores my own abilities and intellect. Damnit,
I DO have a choice. And this is the Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-89596085822811046572014-01-24T05:47:00.000-08:002014-02-18T09:50:39.130-08:00Diabolical Genius of Cancer Treatments...I've come to the conclusion that there is a diabolical genius in this particular cancer treatment. While I certainly didn't feel like I was ill with a deadly disease prior to beginning treatment, I can categorically state, that at the end of my third week, I now feel exactly like the stereotypical cancer patient portrayed in books and on film. Nausea...check. Fatigue....check. Bladder issues....Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-56410857672014745412013-12-16T13:39:00.001-08:002014-02-18T09:50:55.380-08:00PET scans can be weirdly relaxing......There is something surreal about lying in a pet scanner. I've graduated from CT scan to PET scan, when my CT showed a couple weird little things that *ahem, "given your history....we should follow up on...." sigh. Really? And not to freak you out or anything, but "we got it authorized and scheduled in 10 minutes and it will be two days from now...." um....ooookay....If a person could forget aboutKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-77684700930187765842013-11-22T21:34:00.000-08:002014-02-18T09:51:19.327-08:00Okay, so this cancer thing isn't going to be as uncomplicated as I thought......So, I'm having a little meltdown tonight. I met my Oncology doctor today and today is the day that I found out what stage my colon cancer is. And it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Stage IIIc. Wow. That's a tough one to write. The house is asleep now, and suddenly my stupid brain decides that after holding everything together quite nicely, thank you, now is the time for a meltdown. I Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-83726674020101039722013-10-31T07:35:00.000-07:002014-02-18T09:51:07.464-08:00Making Colon Cancer my Bitch....Life, as it frequently will, has gotten in the way of reviewing books. And, I'll admit, the reviewing of ARC's for publishers had started to feel like a job as opposed to something fun. So, I took a *ahem....short break. Which extended to a long break. And now I'm maybe back. But not in anyway that is bookish for now. In fact...if you're reading this...well....first...wow...I'm still on your Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-50498663814449551222012-06-14T06:35:00.015-07:002012-06-14T12:26:05.313-07:00Directive 51 and Daybreak Zero--thought provoking novels!I finished reading Daybreak Zero last week and, like the previous book, Directive 51, I thought it was an interesting book, nothing spectacular, just an okay diversion. Initially, I wasn’t going to review the books, because they were just a wee bit above average. I went to my Library Thing page and I gave them a 3.5 bookworm rating.This morning, as I was packing lunches, I realized that, halfway Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-25521576775582015282012-06-11T05:00:00.000-07:002012-06-11T05:00:10.770-07:00Another best day!!I know...I should have stopped with the wedding picture a couple days ago, but what can I say? Memorial Day was a damn busy weekend, we had my birthday, wedding rehearsal, wedding, BBQ for the youngest high school graduation, the graduation.....whew! I was tired when those five days were over! This is a tiny little portion of the graduating class of the local high school. She's the one near theKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-49398120270780304752012-06-09T05:00:00.004-07:002012-06-09T22:08:52.624-07:00Best Day EVER!!!(Click the picture to see it full-sized)I warned you--I'm the proud mom and mom-in-law, and since that 's new (the mom in law part, not the proud of my girl part!!) I'm determined to show some pics of the most fun wedding I ever attended. Here's the 'serious' part, before we all started dancing our feets off. Here's my daughter and her new husband, sharing their first kiss as Mr. and Mrs. MyKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-68514852676126583772012-06-07T05:00:00.010-07:002012-06-16T07:11:02.977-07:00Fifty Shades of Grey? WTF???<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-61335175170183670562012-06-06T09:29:00.003-07:002012-06-06T09:42:17.311-07:00And....I'm Back.....Okay...sorta back. I haven't reviewed/posted in a very long time. Yep, I've kept reading, but I sort of came to the realization that the reviewing for publishers, while way cool and really interesting to do, was starting to feel like an obligation and not as much fun. So, I re-discovered my hobby of quilting, finished a couple quilts, got busier than a 'one legged man in a butt kicking contest' Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-83343331015971102342012-05-31T14:31:00.000-07:002015-09-27T07:07:37.717-07:00Dancin' at a Wedding!Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-33631569792701865722011-02-22T00:00:00.000-08:002011-02-22T00:00:06.652-08:00Preston and Child's Gideon's Sword: Worth a trip to the bookstore?From Fantastic Fiction—Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thiefAt twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.Now, with a new Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-76150904350800021662011-01-29T10:57:00.000-08:002011-01-29T11:09:27.934-08:00Brad Meltzer's The Inner CircleIn Brad Meltzer’s The Inner Circle, conspiracies and mysteries span the centuries. The protagonist of the novel, Beecher White, is an archivist who works at the National Archives in Washington D.C. Beecher is struggling to recover from a recent split with his fiancé when an old childhood crush appears back into his life. Clementine Kaye contacts Beecher and asks him to help her find her long Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-20738812753340839262011-01-25T14:13:00.000-08:002011-01-25T14:24:02.267-08:00Reagle Beagle by Eddie MejiaREAGLE BEAGLE by Eddie MejiaMr. and Mrs. Beagle have been blessed with four puppies, three girls and a boy. The girls are a rambunctious bunch; happy, mischievous and energetic. But their boy, Reagle, never speaks, plays alone and avoids contact with his siblings. Mr. and Mrs. Beagle are quite concerned about Reagle and encourage him to join in. One day, while playing, the girls get into quite aKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com1