March 2011
8 posts
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– Rosemarie Urquico (via kblitz)
(via conversationslips)
Rosemarie no longer has an active blog, but she can be found on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=585211028 To see the post about how she was found, please go here. Thanks to Jonathan for searching! (via...
Damage Control by J. A. Jance
When you live in a sleepy little town where everyone knows everyone else’s business, life is pretty quiet most of the time. That is, unless you’re Bisbee’s sheriff, Joanna Brady. When an elderly couple’s car shoots off a cliff, it’s her job to investigate. It’s also her job when their two daughters’ feuding lands them in her jail and when a young boy finds...
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is…the...”
– Mark Twain
Queen Takes King by Gigi Levangie Grazer
Queen Takes King by Gigi Levangie Grazer was an unexpected pleasure. Upon first picking it up, I felt like the the plot was going to be cliche. Jackson and Cynthia Power have been a ‘power’ couple for twenty-five years. The day after their twenty-fifth anniversary party, “Jacks” as he is affectionately known, has his picture in the Post twice. Once with his lovely wife, the...
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
You might know her as a children’s book author, but not many people know L. M. Montgomery also wrote for adults. One of her two adult novels, The Blue Castle enchants every person who reads it.
Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine and miserably unhappy. Her huge extended family is overbearing and she never gets time to herself. Her saving graces are the ‘nature’ novels she is...
Lost by Gregory Maguire
From the author of Wicked, we have an original story not based on another source such as a fairy tale or other book. I loved Wicked, both as a play (saw it three times), and as a book. While picking up A Lion Among Men, the last book in the trilogy, at my local library, I saw this one on the shelf, though the picture in the window there was missing. Kind of creepy, isn’t it?
But creepy...
About Me
Hello, your humble blogger at your service. Fiction Treasures is my latest little project for deciding on what to do with my life. My one greatest love for my entire life is books. I started reading at a very young age and never stopped. A little bit later, I started writing, fanfiction if you must know. At about thirteen I started writing my original work and I just never stopped. My dream is to...
“Fear is the original sin. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the...”
– The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery 