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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I am a reader, book reviewer, and librarian who often books authors for our Authors@The Teague program at the Velma Teague Library in Glendale, AZ.
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- About Me:
- I have been a public librarian for 28 years, and worked in libraries for over 30 years. I review books for my own blog, as well as for Library Journal, Blogcritics, Mystery News, and a couple websites. My speciality it mysteries, but I read a little of everything.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://www.lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- Mysteries, mysteries, mysteries, along with childhood favorites - Snow Treasure, Little Women, The Hobbit
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ
I began my Library career as Director of a Public Library on the shores of Lake Erie at the age of 22. My husband & I lived in Florida for 18 years, where I was a Librarian/Administrator, before moving to beautiful Glendale, AZ. I am presently a Library Manager and a contributing Book Reviewer for Library Journal, Blogcritics Magazine, Mystery News and various websites. Lesa's Book Critiques is syndicated through Blogburst, and reviews have been picked up by Reuters, USA Today and other news distributors.
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Humpty Dumpty Jr., Hardboiled Detective Series
If middle school readers enjoy Bruce Hale's Chet Gecko mysteries, they should try the new series, Humpty Dumpty Jr: Hardboiled Detective. The authors, Nate Evans, Paul Hindman, and Vince Evans created a series aimed particularly at the hard-to-reach group, middle school boys. I'm… Continue
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New Killer Career Excerpt at Acme Authors Link
Hi Gang,Today, I've got a new Killer Career excerpt up at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/ . This one continues from the first excerpt I posted on Monday at http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/
If you're curious about my recently released romantic suspense, come on over to one or both blogs to check it out.
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Morgan
Time Out for Kindle Reading
Our local library has 8 kindles available for its patrons. The DH and I both got on the waiting list, mainly so I could use one. His number was reached and we picked up the kindle on Sunday afternoon. Now I've got a kindle to read for 2 weeks! So far I'm really loving it, especially the current book I'm reading, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.What about you? Do you own a kindle? Or, have you tried someone else's? Would you like to?
Who's Doing Cyber Monday?
I'm very carefully going to check out the Cyber Monday deals. I have a few items in mind that I plan to buy, but it would be very nice if they'd go on sale and save me some money. I won't be spending much. Can't afford to do so this year.What about you?
Did You Shop on Black Friday?
There's still time to take the poll to the left about what you ate at Thanksgiving.About Black Friday -
The DH despises mob scenes, but my brother and I do love the adventure of shopping on Black Friday. We weren't courageous enough to get up at the crack of dawn, though, so we did miss out on a few goodies, like the snuglee blankets and pots and pans sets at Menards, and some other items. I did manage to get some work gloves at almost 50 cents each pair, and a boot/shoe dryer which sounded interesting and was less than $9.00. The biggest extravagance there was this turntable with MP3 encoding/AM FM radio combination thing, but that was only $49.00, which isn't too bad. I didn't go for any of the high ticket items.
I didn't do too bad, but do have some Staples rebates to send in. They're pretty easy to do online, so I don't mind doing them. I bought some USB flash drives, batteries, and CD rewrites there.
I also bought a reversible light grey, almost white bubble coat and some grey boots at Walmart, both items $7.00 each, which I plan to use walking Rascal.
What about you? Did you shop on Black Friday? If so, what kind of deals did you get?
So, this year I was pretty practical, but it was still fun and I did get a few things I hadn't expected to find.
What about you? Did you shop on Black Friday? If so, what kind of finds did you get?
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My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. I am writing because my debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available, and I was hoping you might be willing to read it and post your comments on some of the book review sites like amazon.com. If you're interested, I'd be glad to send you an e-book version of the book. Just let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
Thanks so much,
Chris
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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com
Thanks for befriending me here, too!
I used to love reading Humpty Dumpty magazine many years ago when I was young.
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Take care and thanks for the note.
Don
Would you be interested in reviewing some of my work? You can check it out at donaldjamesparker.com
Take care!
Don