Sweet Soliloquies

BOOK RATINGS

5 ♦ = Drop everything and read this now!

4 ♦ = A satisfying read.

3 ♦ = Not terrible. It’ll do in a pinch.

2 ♦ = Some serious flaws.

1 ♦ = Drop it and run!

BOOK REVIEWS

You’ll find my book reviews here at Sweet Soliloquies and also at Texty Ladies. All will be included in the list below, sorted by the first initial of the author’s last name.

LITERATURE

Bauermeister, Erica – The School of Essential Ingredients

Goodman, Carol – Arcadia Falls

Hoopman, Kathy – All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE

Barrett, Lorna – Murder is Binding

Balzo, Sandra – Uncommon Grounds

Carlisle, Kate – Homicide in Hardcover: A Bibliophile Mystery

Lavene, Joyce and Jim – Ghastly Glass: Renaissance Faire Mystery

URBAN FANTASY

Handeland, Lori – Any Given Doomsday (The Phoenix Chronicles – Book 1)

Richardson, Kat – Vanished (Greywalker – Book 4)

BOOK CHALLENGE PARTICIPATION

2010

Cozy Mystery Challenge

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Clover Bee & Reverie

1. Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
2. Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
3. Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka by Midaregami
4. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
5. Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings Edited by Richard S. Kennedy
6. A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
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The Short Story Reading Challenge

1. Smoke & Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
2. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman – √
3. An Unthymely Death and other Garden Mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert – √
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The 2o10 Pub Challenge

1. Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman
2. A Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman
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Thriller & Suspense Reading Challenge 2010

1. The Night Villa by Carol Goodman – √
2. The Ghost and the Dead Deb – √
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2010 Cat Book Challenge

1. The Sophisticated Cat – Chosen by Joyce Carol Oates and Daniel Halpern
2. Murder Past Due (A Cat in Stacks Book) by Miranda James
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101 Fantasy Reading Challenge

1. Briggs, Patricia – Moon Called
2. Coehlo, Paul – The Alchemist
3. Frost, Jeaniene – Halfway To The Grave
4. Frost, Jeaniene – One Food In The Grave
5. Frost, Jeaniene – At Grave’s End
6. Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book
7. Harrison, Kim – A Fistful Of Charms
8. Harrison, Kim – For A Few Demons More
9. Huff, Tanya – Summon The Keeper
10. See, Lisa – Peony In Love

Speculative Fiction Challenge

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2009

♦Cozy Mystery Challenge 2009: April 1, 2009 – September 30, 2009

(6 books) – COMPLETED

1. No Rest for the Wiccan (Bewitching Mysteries) by Madelyn Alt – √

2. Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell – √

3. Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo – √

4. Ghastly Glass (Renaissance Faire Mystery) by Joyce and Jim Lavene – √

5. Homicide in Hardcover: A Bibliophile Mystery by Kate Carlisle – √

6. Grounds for Murder (Maggy Thorsen Mysteries) by Sandra Balzo – √

♦Reliquiae (The Challenge from the Beyond): July 15, 2009 – January 15, 2010

(6 books)

1. Any Given Doomsday (The Phoenix Chronicles, Book 1) by Lori Handeland – √

2. Vanished by Kat Richardson – √

3. Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton – √

4. Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn – √

5. Torn by Julie Kenner – √

6. Deja Demon: The Days and Nights of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom (Kate Connor, Demon Hunter) by Julie Kenner – √