Mia

Wow it's been a while since I've posted. Well to be fair I haven't finished a book this year. I've been busy with work and all. I have 3 books I'm currently reading. Two I'm close to finishing. So hopefully soon you'll get a review from me.

In My Mailbox

I've been MIA, but here are the books I got for Christmas. All books I am looking forward to reading.

Final Trailer for Catching Fire

I know I haven't been posting much. I am still working on reading MockingJay and Game of Thrones, which has been a little hard to do with working a lot lately. I wanted to share the final trailer for Catching Fire. It looks really good and I'm excited to see it. I was shocked to see so much footage of the arena, but it didn't give too much away. Even my fiancé has been watching the trailers and asked if I wanted to go see it, which is a shocker to me.

Nanowrimo 2013

I'm planning on once again to attempt to write a novel next month. This time I have no idea if what I'm going to write. The other three times I've had plots done and just let the story fly. The two I did we're good but I just never was able to finish them. 

I think this novel will be dystopian in some way but not sure how or what I'll do. I have some time to get that sorted out. Anyone else doing this? 

Bloody Mary Book Review

Bloody Mary is the second book in the Jackie Daniels Mysteries by J.A. Konrath. I read this book on my Kindle for free because it was part of the leanding library on Amazon for Prime Members.

Synopsis: Jackie's life as a Chicago Detective is once again in trouble as she is the target of a murdered and her personal life is a wreck. 

Review: This book isn't the best detective book out there but it was a nice easy read to get some reading in. I finished the first book in the series not sure I would read any other books from this series unless I was desperate to get some reading in that was quick.

Overall, this book is not bad. It's an interesting story that half way through you know it's not over, but you have no way of figuring out how it's going to keep going. I felt like the story was believable and most of it was not predictable like a lot of mystery books seem to be lately. The drama that was added is was not forces and it was interesting.


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Why I Don't Read Fantasy Novels

After so much hype I decided to pick up Game of Thrones first book to read. Seems like I was missing out in something. I've also been playing World of Warcraft too so I seem to be in this fantasy mood lately. In getting into both more WoW than Game of Thrones I realized there's a reason why I don't get into fantasy much. 

The main reason is the unusual names and places. I have a huge tendency to read over names and words I don't recognize even worse that I have no way to know how it's pronounced so I just read over it. I'm not sure what others do but this is what I do. Funny thing some of them have elements of Latin which I took two years of and I still can't figure out what the name is.

In Fantasy a lot of names and places seem to be different than what I'm use to seeing and it usually I don't want to say scares me off but doesn't make me want to jump in and start reading. I'm not sure if there's a way to fix this. How do others get over this hurdle when reading fantasy or sci fi with a lot if names that are hard to pronounce? 

Re-Reading Hunger Games Trilogy

I wanted to re-read The Hunger Game Trilogy for a few reasons.

1) I felt like I miss or forgot things that everyone kept talking about after the movie and the trailers came out.
2) I actually planned on reading it after I watched The Hunger Games, but never got around to it. Can you believe I've only seen the movie once.
3) I wanted to see after a second reading if my opinions about certain characters or events would change.

The Hunger Games:
I finish the book just as quickly as I did the first book. It was nice to see what they left out of the movie and see how it made sense for the most part. There was minor things I forgot, but I found myself in love the the book all over again and even liked Peeta more, but could be due to knowing what happens to him in the other books.

Catching Fire: As I have mentioned Catchinf Fire didn't really catch me on my first time reading it. This time around I enjoyed it much better and I'm really looking forward to the movie. I was able to see how important this book is to the series after rereading it.

Mocking Jay: I cannot remember if this book made me cry when I first read it. If it did then this time around I knew the ending I wasn't crying or feeling as sad and helpless like I was the first time. I will say that the epilogue of this book always puts a lump in my throat and makes me fight the tears.