The Naming & The Riddle - Alison Croggon

Hey Ladies,
I've found a couple books that I've really enjoyed so far. Good solid fantasy that is well written and not annoying. Not much romance in there though (Sorry!).

Alison Croggon is an author from Australia. I'm halfway through The Riddle (2nd book) and I like the character development so far.

Hope you like them!

BD Tour Continued...

So I couldn't edit the last post, so I am just starting a new one. New information is linked on Stephenie's site, but in brief, it looks like tickets go on sale on Saturday, June 21st at 10:00am. We can purchase tickets online and the concert / booksigning is on Thursday August 8th at 8:00pm. Are we going?

BD tour Dates

check out this link to see Breaking Dawn tour dates. It's one of those times when I'm happy to be living in Los Angeles.

I think i might actually try to go to this one...

Breaking Dawn

In order to get a cover photo of Breaking Dawn, I typed the words into Google. Now, I know what the cover looks like, so I was surprised to see this page pop up. I don't know if they are discarded cover ideas or if they are all just fan art, but good grief, Blood Spatter? ew, people.

thank you, Amazon.com, for always having the real thing:



now here's my theory, about the cover. Because it obviously means something. I mean, hello. Chess?

okay. So I told Craig about the cover and he said that in chess the pawn can become the queen. (he said this in that "of course you know this, right?" way, which, of course I did NOT) I mean hello! Chess? honestly.

anyway. my theory is this: we have gotten rid of our "bad guys" from books 1-3 (those naughty vampires) but were introduced to an ever-more-scary-and-sinister group in book 2, The Volturi. I think it is likely/natural that they will be the bad guys of #4.

And that they will want Bella for their pawn.

Have you guessed yet what it is that I am thinking? I bet you have, you smart and awesome people. I am thinking that Bella will end up being, "da dum!", the Queen of the Vampires.

now, i realize that so far SM's work tends toward the human - meaning that from the way she has written so far, one does not tend to expect her to go all vampy and especially queen-of-the-vampy allofasudden. However, I really don't see another possible "happy" ending for all of you Edward fans. Also, I love a good queen-vamp novel (that is also clean) (which means i haven't actually read... any... yet... *sigh*) so I'm hoping that my guess is right.

July book club

So, I guess since we've all had a turn hosting book club, it's my turn again. Should we do The Host? Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm going to have to think about what to do.
So, stay tuned. . .

June book group

Unless anyone has any great objections, our next book group will be Thursday, June 5 at 8 or 8:30. (Enrichment in our ward and Hannah's birthday is on Wednesday.) We will be discussing Fablehaven. I don't know yet about place. I'm guessing it will be at my place, but if things get crazy during the next few days I may change that. I'll update this once I'm sure about details (after we recover from Andrew's surgery tomorrow), but this way you can at least plan for which day.

Update: We will have it at my place at 8 pm. See you there!

I liked it!

Here's a fun book that was at our Elementary school Book Fair. I kept snitching other people's copies they had in their "I'm-going-to-buy-this-stack-of-books-eventually-but-I'm-not-done browsing-yet" piles and reading them. I finally had to check it out of the library so I could finish it.
I think it's charming.