Whoah! I just missed one episode and all of a sudden my pet designer Enzo explodes in a haze of “bad” design, prompting Rajo to call his creation “a sad cabbage.”
As you might have guessed, I wasn’t too happy with how this episode turned out. Let’s break it down.
A recommendation by the same friend who got me into The Hunger Games, Everneath is one of those books that hooked me early into the story.
It tells the story of Nikki Beckett, who, in a fit of desperation, goes off with gorgeous guitar player Cole who “feeds” off people’s emotions – like an emotional vampire. Cole is an Everliving, a creature of the underworld called Everneath.
Given her heartbreak over her mom’s accidental death and the drunk driver’s subsequent parole, plus the belief her boyfriend Jack was cheating on her, she agrees to be Cole’s “forfeit” or sacrifice for the Feed. For a century (or 6 months of time in the real world), she will be in the underworld, while Cole siphons off her feelings and emotions. After the time is up, the sacrifice should have no memory of life on the Surface, and should just move on to be part of the Tunnels, that dark shadowy place in the Everneath.
It’s hard not to admire the person who introduced ‘1,000 songs in your pocket’, or ‘the world’s thinnest notebook’. He came up with the coolest gadgets, and remade the way we use phones. When he died last October, everybody grieved at the loss of one of the world’s greatest visionaries.
After reading his biography, I realized how apt the description was – he wasn’t a programmer or a designer, nor was he an artist. He didn’t really invent anything, but instead, had this amazing foresight that could connect the dots and come up with products that would sell. For example, the idea for the iPod wasn’t new. There had been music players before then, with a very limited capacity. Being a music lover himself, he wanted to improve the listening experience. As luck would have it, one of his people came across a very small hard drive capable of storing more than 20 songs. Thus, the iPod was born.
Yay MangoJuiced for supporting readers with your ebook contest! I was thrilled when I won because I’ve been meaning to read The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry. This book has been recommended for fans of Sarah Addison Allen, who is one of my favorite writers. I’m on the lookout for novels similar to her kind of work. The Kitchen Daughter is a magic realism novel – mostly contemporary fiction with just a touch of whimsy. In this novel, that little bit of magic is how Ginny momentarily brings to life ghosts by cooking their recipes.
In New York to Dallas, part of JD Robb’s (Nora Roberts) hugely popular In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds herself facing Isaac McQueen, a blast from her past in more ways than one.
The perp is one of Dallas’ first busts as a young detective. Responsible for putting the serial pedophile in prison, McQueen escapes after 12 years of incarceration. He then sets up an elaborate game to extract revenge on Dallas, the first step of which is luring her away from her beloved New York City to Dallas, Texas. Out of her element and in an unfamiliar territory, Dallas must also deal with her violent past while keeping ahead of McQueen.
One of my (many) guilty reading pleasures, I remain hooked because of several factors: Eve’s back story, Roarke, and a very strong supporting cast.
I usually wait till the end of a book to decide if I liked it or not. But halfway through Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, I realized I liked it. Never mind that it had mixed reviews when it came out, or that it generated indignation (or awe, I suspect) for the author Amy Chua when an excerpt of it was published in the Wall Street Journal before the official book release.
Song Ji-Won (Kang Dong-Won) is a North Korean spy left out in the cold. After an operation in South Korea is compromised, his handler refused all contact with him, and he’s left in enemy territory for six years. All he wants is to get home to his wife and child. By chance, he meets the former National Intelligence Service agent Lee Han-Gyoo (the man who nearly caught Ji-Won and his boss, the assassin Shadow, six years ago), who asks Ji-Won to work for him (a disgraced government agent, he’s now a sort of bounty hunter of runaway foreign wives). Ji-Won agrees, despite his distaste for the questionable ethics of the work. They both pretend they don’t recognize each other.
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