The Fireside Chats

Literature

  • “Out To Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe” by Josh Allen (illustrated by Sarah J. Coleman)

    I finished reading this at bed time last night. It’s a collection of short stories geared more towards younger audiences (I’d probably say around the 10-12 year old age range). Each story follows a child about that age (or close to it) and puts them in a scary or unusual situation. This would probably be…

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  • Books to read for Halloween…

    If you are looking for books to read to get in the spirit of Halloween, then you’ve come to the right place. Yes, I know it’s just the first day of September….but I figured I’d give everyone time to hunt down the following selections from your local library or bookstore, whichever the case may be.…

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  • Showed up…

    This showed up on my front porch today. This was something I had ordered earlier in the year but this particular book didn’t come out till today. There was another book on my order that came out today as well….I was expecting it to show up today. Maybe it’ll show it tomorrow…? Anyway, this book…

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  • “Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie

    I finished reading this book over the weekend. I wanted to read this book before I saw the movie. I enjoyed this book, as I have all the books I’ve read by Agatha Christie. I felt that the author was trying to continuously throw one curve ball after another another as we were nearing the…

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  • Last of it for now….

    Okay. Two more books came in today. I’m still waiting on a few books, however, they haven’t been released yet. Not just from this latest order….but from past orders. They will be coming out either later this year or some time next year.

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  • More, more, more….

    I few more of the books I ordered came in over the weekend. I still have 4 books left from my order that have yet to come in. One of them hasn’t been released yet so I know I’m going to have to wait a bit for that one. The others should be showing up…

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  • What’s new…

    I got some gift cards to my local book store for my birthday. However, I opted to order stuff online and have it shipped to my house instead of going to my local book store. I enjoyed shopping none the less….regardless if I shop online or in the store. Now, my entire order didn’t come…

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  • Latest Haul

    This is my latest haul from the book store…. First, I got a new pillow. It’s from the Harry Potter collection (as you can see). It’s made to look like a package that the chocolate frogs come in and it even has a chocolate frog. The frog stays inside the pillow (so that I hopefully…

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  • “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys (co-written by Andrew Weiner and illustrated by Brittney Williams)

    I’ve finished reading this and I really enjoyed reading the story. There are several injustices going on that are included in the story and I like how the main character handles them, although I will say that I think it’s a lot for one person to have to face. I do like how the family…

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  • “Haunted Homicide” by Lucy Ness

    I finished reading this today. This was a nice mystery to read. I wasn’t able to decide who the murderer was until the very end. The author was good at throwing curve balls the entire time you’re reading so that you guess that everyone is a suspect but you can’t exactly pin someone down. Then…

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