Nope, its called Wicked City by Alaya Johnson. It's about a vampire hunter in the 1920's who is simultaneously trying to figure out who is framing her for murder and trying to find out why an "alcoholic" vampire drink is suddenly killing vampires. Wicked City is a follow up to Moonshine, both Zephyr Hollis novels.
Just finished reading almost the complete series of Richard Bolitho by Alexander Kent (after reading the Eragon series). Now reading The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt.
Flew through Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. It's a fascinating morality tale of what might happen if man didn't have consequences for his actions. It's interesting to see how Griffin is so quickly corrupted by his power, which is, coincidentally, his curse. Despite the heavy hand that Wells uses to warn against reckless abuse of accountability, the tone of the book has a great deal of humor in it and reads almost like a slapstick movie. It's great fun, and it's a super quick read. I highly recommend it if you haven't read it already!
This sounds a lot like The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde), that was an amazing read about the corruption of a gift/curse. I'll have to look into the Invisible Man when I get a chance! I haven't read any of Wells' books...yet.
I teach sixth grade, so I am reading "The Hunger Games" to figure out what the hubbub is all about, "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius because I teach Ancient Civilizations, and "American Gothic" because Neil Gaiman rocks!
Haven't seen it, and part of me doesn't want to (nor do I think I want to read his biography). I think it's true that you can get quite a sense of what he was experiencing through his music. Some musicians, I suppose the best musicians, wear their insides on the outside.
Chet was sadly another casualty in the "war with drugs." Not the war you hear politicians talk about, but the personal war he lost. He lost his good looks, his teeth were for a time ruined so that he could not play for a long time. For a time it was thought he would fully come back but that was a brief time before his death. Truly sad, because he had a great voice and was a fantastic player.
I want to find out opinions about the work of Harry Turtledove. Have anyone read his books ? Do they make a good reading ?
I have "The Man with the Iron Heart" on my to-read list. My step dad gave it to me after he read it and he definitely liked it.
I love to read and I read a lot. But seldom anything useful or "in" I read primarily Sci-Fi and fantasy. I am on book 74 on the 234 book series from the Star Wars universe. I used the better part of the last 14 months to get here, so I reckon I have a few years before I finish. But in these 14 months, I have also read the Harry Potter series and Songs of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones). Great books that I consider to be the Proraso of fantasy literature When I do not read sci-fi and fantasy. I like to indulge in the works of Wilbur Smith, I really enjoyed Shantaram. And I have a few crime books waiting to be read. I hear the books about Harry Hole, by Jo Nesbo is supposed to be great. If it weren't for my kinde, either on my phone or as a tab I probably wouldn't be reading as much as I do. And I am looking forward to "Leisureguy's Guide to Gourmet Shaving" will be made available on the Kindle again.
I've read a chunk of his "southern victory" series. It's been a while and I don't remember exactly which books I've read. I think I made it up to his revised version of WWII, which had the south allied with Germany. They're entertaining reading.
