animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

t is for trespass

This was another one from Sue Grafton. I haven’t read all of her books by any means, but I’ve read quite a few of them at this point. The good thing is that you don’t have to read them in order to be able to follow the plot. This one …

slash

Slash’s autobiography was replete with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. So much so that after the first few hundred pages, I was getting more than a little bored with it. But, once we progressed past the GNR days, things got a little more interesting. My biggest gripe with the …

life expectancy

This was a novel by Dean Koontz. I finished reading it last night. I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, the plot was kind of interesting. On the other hand, it pretty much followed the old Dean Koontz formula. Plus, some of the characters were so ridiculously named …

just after sunset

I read this one pretty quickly–just finished it last night. I thought it was pretty good. The plus side was that it was a collection of short stories, so if you didn’t like a story, it didn’t slow the whole book down. Stephen King wrote it, in case you didn’t …

the burden of proof

Whew! This was a long one. I’ve been reading it for almost 2 months now (though I did lose it for a week around Halloween when Jake put it in our pumpkin basket). Despite the slow reading, I did enjoy the book. It’s just not what I’d call a “page …