"Making Money"

For those who don’t know Terry Pratchett’s Disc-world, I pity you people!
I finished “Making Money” and love love loved it! Moist Van Lipwig is back and is taking over a bank and renovating the banking system and money making business of Ankh-Morpork. Yeah, he used to take money out of the banks (mostly at night!) not into it but hey, he is reformed! He just likes to pick the locks of post office (he is general postmaster and the big boss there) for practice and out of boredom! Anyway he is back and it’s fun and excitement all around! Lord Vetinari and people of Ankh-Morpork believe in him, why don’t you?!
Then it was “A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel” (Margaret of Ashbury Trilogy) by Judith Merkle Riley. Remember her? In this book she is dictating her life story to grumpy brother Gregory and learns to read and write. After the unexpected ending of the story (yeah, like I already hadn’t read the third volume!) I can’t wait for the second book of the series. Ms. Riley’s style is really interesting. You get absorbed into the story and somehow live and breathe with the characters. I have three or four more of her books and I know I’m going to enjoy them enormously.
What else? Oh, a contemporary fiction which hasn’t been very interesting so far. I’m in the third chapter of “Wednesday Night Witches” by Lee Nichols and already think Eve is a doormat! Well, let’s see what happens at the end!

“Exit Strategy”

When I put hold on 15-20 books last Friday night, I was absolutely fed up with all the romances I was reading (Well paranormal romances to be exact. I hate romance!) The only saving grace was they all had happy endings and were helping my stress level (something somewhere was going right!). I didn’t know how much I’ve missed a well written book and a wonderful plot until I started “Exit Strategy” (Nadia Stafford Series, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong. Ms. Armstrong has done a great job with Women Of Other World series but in “Exit Strategy” she has shown her total mastery in describing human emotions and complicated characters. Nadia’s character is so real you can laugh and cry with her. Although at the beginning you wonder how a hit-man (hit-woman) can have normal emotions, at the end of the book you come to love Nadia and Jake and even Evelyn. I impatiently wait for the second book of the series.
I checked out the book on Tuesday afternoon and was finished by Wednesday morning!
After that I spent a half day on Stephanie Rowe’s “Sex & the Immortal Bad Boy”. Well, remember Theresa, Justin and Becca? This one is about Paige. Cute story and a total fluff!

Now that I've started the latest book of my all times favorite author Terry Pratchett, I’m going to savor it!

Hooray, it’s Christmas!

I’m alive; I’m well and done with the exams! Hooray! Now I can live my life for three glorious weeks any way I want! I can shop until I drop (already started that one!) I can read as much books as my heart desires and I can eat chocolate and enjoy it too! Haa! Did you know when you are stressed you can’t taste chocolate? I just found out! So now after almost finishing a box World finest Mint Meltaways, I can enjoy the taste of the last one!
Anyway, last week in my study breaks I finished “Swimming without a Net” (Fred the Mermaid, Book 2) by MaryJanice Davidson and started on “Wife for Hire” by Janet Evanovich. It is funny but not as great and simplistic as her other books.
Then Friday night right after my last exam, I started searching for the books on my list. Thank heaven many of them are available in the library! I have a list of 15 books on hold!
Then I started a Christmassy book in honor of the holidays! Yes, “Santa Baby” by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster, and Carly Philips. Crusie’ novella wasn’t up to her usual standard, but the novella from Carly Philips more than made up for that! I tell ya!
After that was a paranormal romance by Susan Squires. “The Burning” is about Stephen a two thousand years old vampire from Carpathian Mountains and beautiful and weird Miss Ann Van Helsing who can read everyone’s life by a touch. Well have you ever wondered why Mr. Van Helsing hated vampires? In this book you will find an answer but you’ll come to dislike Van Helsing so much it would ruin the movie for you! Be truly warned!
Had I read anything else from Susan Squires? Yes, “Sacrament”. And yes, “The Burning” is much better! Apparently they are from a series but I won’t recommend it. Just my opinion really! You feel like reading some gory torture and abuse and nasty sex scenes, go ahead and read them, I can’t stop you! Her other books are "The Comanion" and "The Hunger" and NO! I'm not going to read those two! Mark my words!

I wish it was next week!

My reading is limited to a chapter of “Swimming without a Net” (Fred the Mermaid, Book 2) by MaryJanice Davidson every other night and I’m way tiered of Fredrika’s wise cracks! That mermaid is a punk marine biologist with a vocabulary worse that a sailor!
To amuse my self (and get my mind of the exams next week), I’m daydreaming and composing my list of HAVE TO READ.
Well, these are on top (or near the top!):
First, To Finish:

“Holidays Are Hell” by Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Vicki Pettersson, and Marjorie M. Liu
“No Rest for the Witches” by MaryJanice Davidson, Cheyenne McCray, Christine Warren, and Lori Handeland
“Kitty Goes to Washington” (Kitty Norville Series, Book 2) by Carrie Vaughn

Then read:

“Making Money” by Terry Pratchett
“Lover Unbound” (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 5) by J.R. Ward
“Holy Smokes” (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 4) by Katie MacAlister
“Kitty Takes a Holiday” (Kitty Norville Series, Book 3) by Carrie Vaughn
“Kitty and the Silver Bullet” (Kitty Norville, Book 4) by Carrie Vaughn
“Iron Kissed “(Mercy Thompson Series, Book 3) by Patricia Briggs
“Elijah” (The Nightwalkers, Book 3) by Jacquelyn Frank
“Exit Strategy” (Nadia Stafford Series, Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong
“Succubus On Top” (The Georgina Kincaid Series, Book 2) by Richelle Mead
“An enchanted Season” By Maggie Shayne, Erin McCarthy, Nalini Singh, Jean Johnson
“Wife for Hire” by Janet Evanovich

And some more….
As soon as I remember I’m going to expand this list!
Yeah, I’m planning a really fun Winter-Break! I just wish it was next week!

Happy Endings!

What better time for reading except right before final exams?!
I spend a day and half of my scare and precious time to read:
“After Glow” (Ghost Hunters, Book 2) and “Ghost Hunter” (Ghost Hunters, Book 3) by Jayne Castle. “After Glow” is again about Lydia and Emmett and how they come to know each other more and get married. “Ghost Hunter” is the story of Elly and Cooper. Elly cancels their engagement when she thinks Cooper doesn’t love her and is after her family’s connections. Cooper then tries to the end of the book to convince her otherwise. Lydia and Emmett make an honorary appearance as well! Both books were fun (at least better than Math and my other subjects!).
“Visions of Heat” by Nalini Singh is the second book of Psy-Changelings series (First and third being “Slave to Sensation” and “Caressed by Ice”). It is the story of Faith, a far-seer Psy who thinks she is going crazy and Vaughn, a jaguar changeling from Lucas’s pack. The happy ending? Of course! She chooses love over power and comes to live in jungle!
What else? Don’t ask! I’m tired of whining about school!