Midnight clear

I just finished reading Midnight clear by Jerry Jenkins and Dallas Jenkins and I have to give it *****. It is so good that it made me cry and it was such a good message. This book is about five people who are hurting in some way and they inteeract with each other lives on Christmas eve. It's a perfect and quick  read for the holiday.  So do yourself a favor and pick up this book and read it, trust me you will be glad you did.

If you could only listen to one song for the next month, which would it be?

This is going to have to take some thinking but I would have to say Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.

You can ask me anything but keep it clean please and I reserve the right to not answer if I don't want to.

If you were stranded on a desert island, which one person would you bring with you?

I have no idea.

You can ask me anything but keep it clean please and I reserve the right to not answer if I don't want to.

If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?

pizza

You can ask me anything but keep it clean please and I reserve the right to not answer if I don't want to.

Who's the sexiest woman alive?

Why me of course. LOL.

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AS_Winnie Ruth Judd

The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd

I give this book 4 ****.

I thought this book was very good and intersting. It is a true story which at times in the book I had to remind myself that I was reading something nonfiction and at times it was hard to believe that this was true. I don't want to give to much away because it is very interesting in the fact that it talks about phoenix in the 1930s and since i live here it was even more interesting. Do yourself a favor and read this book and see for yourself, I'm glad I read it.

Mystic River

I just finished this book and I would give it 4 ****. I don't want to give to much away but it is a very good book and I can't wait to watch the movie now and see how it follows the book. I am going to have to read more by Dennis Lehane because he is the one who wrote Shutter Island and so foar I love both of these books. This book is about Three childhood friends, Dave Boyle, Sean Devine, and Jimmy Marcus who were friends but then one day a car pulls up and ends up taking one of the boys and left the other two and something terrible happened something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Now years later murder has tied their lives together again.... This was taken from the back of the book. It really didn't pick up until towards the end and it was an okay ending but not what I was expecting. This book is a definitley read but beware if you do read it there's a lot of bad language in it but overall i liked it.

Ted's Interview on CBN

Writers' Blok by Ja¢kson Pearce

Kiss What to Expect

Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy

Kiss Review

I finished the book Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healey late last night so that is why I am doing the review now. This book was actually pretty good but not as good as some others I have read from mr. Dekker. It is about a woman, shauna who is charged for the near death of her beloved brother and the worst part is that she can't remember anything that happened that night and what makes matters worse is that her and her father who is running for the preisdency isn't on very good ground and it follows her trying to get her life back but in the wake of it she finds this whole political money scandal and it just goes deeper and deeper and when she meets people she can steal their memories by either touching them or kissing them. It would make a good movie and I thought it was pretty good so I am going to give it ****stars.

Norman Ollestad's CRAZY FOR THE STORM: A Memoir of Survival

Shutter Island review

First of all I give this book *****stars because it followed the movie or I shouldd say the movie followed the book.  I was amazed at how everything that was in the book was in the movie even the description.  I saw the movie first so I knew what was going to happen but I still loved this book.  If you have seen the movie then you know what it is about but if you haven't you will just have to read it for yourself.

Another intersting article

 This is a article from Books on Board and it talks about how the prices of some books may go up in price starting in April.

Drastic eBook Price Change Coming Next Week

Last Chance to Get Discounted Prices on Many of our Titles

In an unexpected move, 5 of the industry’s top publishers have advised us in the last week that they are imposing a Required Ebook Pricing model on all ebook stores as of April 1. This is not an April Fool’s joke, but a significant price increase on many of our popular ebooks. In order to keep offering these titles, we are required to comply. These publishers are the following and all their imprints (full list agency pricing ebook imprints here):

• Hachette (publisher of Stephanie Meyer, David Baldacci, James Patterson and more),
• Penguin (publisher of Nora Roberts/JD Robb, Lora Leigh, Nalini Singh, the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris)
• Harper Collins (publisher of much Dennis Lehane, Christine Feehan, James Rollins, Johanna Lindsey, Diane Mott Davidson, Kerrelyn Sparks, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lisa Kleypas, Jodi Picoult, Jeaniene Frost, and Tony Hillerman)
• MacMillan (publisher of Lisa Scottoline, Governor Mitt Romney, Terry Goodkind and more)
• Simon & Schuster (publisher of Kresley Cole, Kathy Reichs, Sabrina Jeffries)

What does this mean?

Now is the time to buy for enormous savings that will go away everywhere on March 31

If you have titles you want to buy from these publishers, the 5 publishers require prices to go up everywhere next Wednesday – in many cases, almost doubling. Some might not even be available while the publishers and our wholesalers change their systems to accommodate the change. If you know you want to buy eBooks from these publishers, you may want to buy them right away so as to get enormous savings versus what you will pay starting next Wednesday night, March 31st.

Sales Tax to be Added in US states for these Publishers

US customers will be charged sales tax on the titles from these publishers where you have not been charged sales tax in the past. This will not be true of other publishers titles, still representing the largest portion of our catalog.

Most BooksOnBoard titles are NOT affected by this

About 70% of our titles will continue to be discounted with our every day good discounts and Rewards dollars. Top publishers who will continue to allow you to enjoy great discounts include Harlequin, Random House, Samhain, and more;

The 5 publishers titles will be at full eBook list price starting next Thursday in ALL eBook retail stores

About 30% of our titles – all the books from these 5 publishers – will be priced the same everywhere at the full eBook list price, which the publishers are now calling Required Ebook Pricing or REP pricing.

The Authors are NOT getting additional royalties for this change. Everything goes to the publishers
Popular Authors whose titles will continue to enjoy discounts for you include, by publisher: (publisher name can be found
Random House: John Grisham, Stieg Larsson (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Jenna Black, Dan Brown, some titles from Eloisa James, Sophie Kinsella, Danielle Steel, Mary Balogh, Alexander McCall Smith, Clive Cussler, Christopher Paolini, Jean M. Auel, Linda Howard, Sapphire (Precious);
Harlequin: Gena Showalter, Linda Goodnight, Jane Porter, Susan Wiggs, Sharon Kendrick, Some Maya Banks, Diana Palmer, Susan Mallery, and many more;
Samhain: Lorelei James, Jess Dee, Jayne Rylon, Vivian Arend, Vivi Andrews, and many more

Interesting article

January 29, 2010, 11:19 pm

Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement

By BRAD STONE

Update | 7:01 p.m. Amazon relents and is selling Macmillan books again.
Update | 2:39 p.m. Adding reporting from Motoko Rich, the Times reporter covering the publishing industry, on Macmillan’s side of the dispute.
As Venture Beat and other blogs have noticed Friday evening, books from Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the United States, have vanished from Amazon.com.
The question is why.
I’ve talked to a person in the industry with knowledge of the dispute who says the disappearance is the result of a disagreement between Amazon.com and book publishers that has been brewing for the last year. Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 to around $15. Amazon is expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books, said this person, who did not want to be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Macmillan is one of the publishers signed on to offer books to Apple, as part of its new iBooks store. Its imprints include Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martins Press and Henry Holt. The publisher’s books can still be bought from third parties on the Amazon site.
Apple, as we’ve reported before, will allow publishers more leeway to set their own prices for e-books. It’s not clear yet if publishers can withhold books from Amazon while giving them to other parties like Apple. I’ve spoken to two antitrust lawyers who say it could raise legal issues.
Motoko Rich, my colleague, spoke with a person who had a direct conversation with a person at Macmillan familiar with the conversations with Amazon. Macmillan offered Amazon the opportunity to buy Kindle editions on the same “agency” model as it will sell e-books to Apple for the iPad. Under this model, the publisher sets the consumer book price and takes 70 percent of each sale, leaving 30 percent to the retailer. Macmillan said Amazon could continue to buy e-books under its current wholesale model, paying the publisher 50 percent of the hardcover list price while pricing the e-book at any level Amazon chooses, but that Macmillan would delay those e-book editions by seven months after hardcover release. Amazon’s removal of Macmillan titles on Friday appears to be a direct reaction to that.
Macmillan has not yet returned a request for comment. Amazon refused to comment.

Before I wake

Stars: ****

I have read several books by Dee Henderson and this one was okay it wasn't as great as her other books and the ending left me hanging but considering this is the first in this series maybe the next book will be better.  I like the fact that this author isn't very preachy about God. I loved the characters well the main characters that is.  Basically this booik is about Rae Gabriella who moves to Justice Illinois to get her life straightened out and ends up working her first case as a private investigator investigating the death of women who apparently die in their sleep. There are two men who help Rae Nathan who is the sheriff and Bruce who used to be a cop but is now a PI.  Nathan used to go out with Rae and he is hoping that he can have a relationship with her again.  Overall this book is good could this book be better? Yes but for being the first book in the series it isn't bad.  I just hope that the next book in this series comes out soon.

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Tempted review

First off let me just say that I thought this whole series was good and I can't wait to read the next book. Now on to the review. This book was awesome I don't want to give to much away but the ending was the best cliffhanger that I have read in a long time and I can't wait to find out what happens next. Yes the ending made me cry and my heart broke for Zoey. I even like Aphrodite more now than before. If you want to know what happens I highly reccomend you reading the series.