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THE TERROR OF LIVING

by URBAN WAITE

SYNOPSIS (borrowed from B&N):

Phil Hunt and Bobby Drake are good men who live on opposite sides of the law. Hunt supports his family and struggling horse farm by guiding an occasional illicit delivery through mountain passes he’s known since birth. Drake is a sheriff who is living down the legacy of his father, a police officer before him who augmented his earnings in the same trade as Hunt.

The two men’s paths cross in the mountains north of Seattle, when Drake notices a horse trailer parked in an odd location and ends up disrupting a shipment. The operation that seemed benign when it worked smoothly now reveals to Hunt just how deadly his sideline has become. His suppliers unleash a singleminded fury known as The Chef to recover what’s theirs. And Drake’s and Hunt’s world is explosively invaded by forces they’ve never dreamed of.
Relentless and gorgeously written, with original characters and a vividly powerful sense of place, THE TERROR OF LIVING heralds the arrival of a writer who will be compared with the great suspense novelists.

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W.W.W. Wednesdays

CMash February 2, 2011 8 Comments

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

What are you currently reading?

(on hold)

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Winners

An the winner is…………..

CMash February 1, 2011 4 Comments

……….for DELIRIOUS by Daniel Palmer

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Winners

An the winner is…………..

CMash February 1, 2011 4 Comments

……….for DELIRIOUS by Daniel Palmer

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

29

Timestamp: 2011-02-01 23:05:44 UTC

Carol M said… 29 I follow on Twitter-CarolAnnM

An email has been sent to the winner and she has 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen.

Teaser Tuesday

CMash February 1, 2011 13 Comments

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

“Okay, Blair, Kimberly gave me the short version on the phone: you got into an accident, the other guy might be hurt pretty bad, and you left the scene. Now give me the whole story. Every detail.”

page 34

Teaser Tuesday

CMash February 1, 2011 13 Comments

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

“Okay, Blair, Kimberly gave me the short version on the phone: you got into an accident, the other guy might be hurt pretty bad, and you left the scene. Now give me the whole story. Every detail.”

page 34

Monday Memes

CMash January 31, 2011 15 Comments

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

This week’s question:

What’s the last thing you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldn’t put it down?
My answer:
I have to be honest, it wasn’t half the night, those days are long gone. But it was past the time I usually fall asleep and I was fighting to stay awake to read more. And it was just recently. It was Godchild by Vincent Zandri. I have become a big fan of his writing and books, he is like a J. Patterson, A. Hitchcock and with his latest, S. King, all rolled up into one.

January has been hosted by Rose City Reader

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of The Printed Page and is now on tour.

According to Marcia, “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.”
Before sharing my mailbox, I want to give a BIG thank you to Rose City Reader for being a wonderful hostess during the month of January. I think everyone will agree that it has been a very pleasant experience and she did a fantastic job. Bravo!!!

For Review:

Turner Publishing NetGalley

And I also received from Simon & Schuster The Survivor by Sean Slater (no image available) from signing up for the Mystery/Suspense Challenge being hosted by Carolyn from Book Chick City. Thank You Carolyn!!!!!

Hosted by Java from Never Growing Old

“Meet Me On Monday!”
Blogging is a funny thing…we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, “who is this person!?” I know them…but yet I don’t know them! I want to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great way for all of us to “meet” each other!

Questions:

1. What do you put on your hot dog?

Preferably sweet pepper relish

2. Do you play Sudoku?

No…anything to do with numbers…No

3. What is your favorite vegetable?

When a person is of Italian heritage, there is no such thing as a “favorite food” lol

from asparagus to zucchini and everything in between

4. Do you color your hair?

Moi? At my age? LOL

5. What is your favorite brand of clothing?

Only brand of jeans I will buy.

I am very disappointed with myself this month, not a good way to start off the year. Even with participating in a Read-A-Thon, I am just having a real hard time focusing on reading with everything else that is going on. I also have realized that when I read slow books back to back, it puts me in a reading slump, so I apologize to those that are waiting for reviews, but am going to try a little experiment for February and see what happens. I plan to grab a book depending on what kind of reading mood I am in and see if I can get more reading done that way…just an experiment, so we shall see…. to be continued…

January Wrap Up

5/5    The Innocent by Vincent Zandri
5/5    Tick Tock by James Patterson
4/5    Resurrecting Anthony Anthony by Lind and Tony Cole
5/5    Godchild by Vincent Zandri
4/5    To Have and To Kill by Mary Jane Clark
DNF Every Little Thing by Pamela Klaffke

Monday Memes

CMash January 31, 2011 15 Comments

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading

This week’s question:

What’s the last thing you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldn’t put it down?
My answer:
I have to be honest, it wasn’t half the night, those days are long gone. But it was past the time I usually fall asleep and I was fighting to stay awake to read more. And it was just recently. It was Godchild by Vincent Zandri. I have become a big fan of his writing and books, he is like a J. Patterson, A. Hitchcock and with his latest, S. King, all rolled up into one.

January has been hosted by Rose City Reader

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of The Printed Page and is now on tour.

According to Marcia, “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.”
Before sharing my mailbox, I want to give a BIG thank you to Rose City Reader for being a wonderful hostess during the month of January. I think everyone will agree that it has been a very pleasant experience and she did a fantastic job. Bravo!!!

For Review:

Turner Publishing NetGalley

And I also received from Simon & Schuster The Survivor by Sean Slater (no image available) from signing up for the Mystery/Suspense Challenge being hosted by Carolyn from Book Chick City. Thank You Carolyn!!!!!

Hosted by Java from Never Growing Old

“Meet Me On Monday!”
Blogging is a funny thing…we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, “who is this person!?” I know them…but yet I don’t know them! I want to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great way for all of us to “meet” each other!

Questions:

1. What do you put on your hot dog?

Preferably sweet pepper relish

2. Do you play Sudoku?

No…anything to do with numbers…No

3. What is your favorite vegetable?

When a person is of Italian heritage, there is no such thing as a “favorite food” lol

from asparagus to zucchini and everything in between

4. Do you color your hair?

Moi? At my age? LOL

5. What is your favorite brand of clothing?

Only brand of jeans I will buy.

I am very disappointed with myself this month, not a good way to start off the year. Even with participating in a Read-A-Thon, I am just having a real hard time focusing on reading with everything else that is going on. I also have realized that when I read slow books back to back, it puts me in a reading slump, so I apologize to those that are waiting for reviews, but am going to try a little experiment for February and see what happens. I plan to grab a book depending on what kind of reading mood I am in and see if I can get more reading done that way…just an experiment, so we shall see…. to be continued…

January Wrap Up

5/5    The Innocent by Vincent Zandri
5/5    Tick Tock by James Patterson
4/5    Resurrecting Anthony Anthony by Lind and Tony Cole
5/5    Godchild by Vincent Zandri
4/5    To Have and To Kill by Mary Jane Clark
DNF Every Little Thing by Pamela Klaffke