Monthly Archives: October 2013

October 2, 2013 · 1:46 am

Dreck – WWW Wednesday

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions:

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Today I deviate from the standard meme.

What am I currently reading – easy, yesterdays Tuesday Teaser.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.

What did I finish reading? – DRECK. Terrible dreckishy dreckful dreck.

What did I finish reading? – DRECK. Terrible dreckishy dreck. A book (actually more than one piece of dreck, but the last one I read was dreckishy dreck) I offered to review.

A book that has a poor plot, clichéd villains, POV flip flops. No descriptions or descriptions that contradict.

The male dialogue usually ends with , ‘he sneered.

The young female police officer is always in trouble, has a temper and her boss doesn’t like her. So he assigns a 20 year veteran cop to keep her out of trouble while they investigate a vampire like killer.

No one believes in vampires. But it just happens that her partner is the vampire kingpin. That’s right – Kingpin.

She kills him (the kingpin) and is covered with blood that spits. Sorry, that is what is written, spitting blood. Immediately there is a knock at the door. It is her boss, the Lieutenant.

” “I see we have a problem” he sneered.

“How did you know?”

“A neighbor called about the commotion. Don’t worry about a thing. I’ll get this taken care of this for you.” ”

Oh the humanity!

I push myself out of a sense of duty to read on. It doesn’t get better.

I don’t want to write an unkind review. I don’t want to hurt feelings.

And I will not say something that isn’t true or I don’t believe. So what is the answer?

Do I let the author know I have to give a bad review? Or do I just not review the book?

I am leaning the don’t review way out.

Input and advice would be appreciated.

Now, I that I am all worked up about the level of dreck my brain has endured, I need to relax.

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October 2, 2013 · 1:12 am

Friends & Liebster Peeps – Great Post

My blogger blog, Andrea Reads and Reviews was also nominated for Liebster by Argyle Doll. In the post I nominated several animal lover blogs.

One nominee was Three Pugs by Stella Rose. The pug answered my questions and she did a beautiful job. Fun and funny. Stop by and read Stella the Pug’s answers. Broaden your horizons and laugh.

Laughter and love from me. And my 2 pugs, 1 bug, 2 parakeets, the collective fish, 1 terrier mix, 1 shih Tzu and one beautiful Corgi, poodle, sheltie mix. We are not as funny as Three Pugs but sometimes we get the giggles and sometimes someone pees.

P.S. All family members are rescued and adopted except the Tzu. Chester came to the family via a step sister to help fill my broken heart after I had to let my dear Pepper go after 17 years. I can say that I often talk about the family in My other blog, I Love Dogs and Animals.

Tuesday Teasers 10/1/13

Tuesday Teasers! 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!

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

“We were having this conversation on a fine summer evening, sitting out on the littlebalcony of her recovery room. It was a few months after her first donation, and now she was over the worst of it, I’d always time my evening visits so that we’d be able to spend a half hour or so out there, watching the sun go down over the rooftops.”

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.