Quote-Tastic #58 If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O

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I've had this book since 1990; it's a bit warped and battered but still legible. McCrumb has been a favorite author since I was in college a million years ago. D: This was the beginning of her second series, the Ballad books, which she's still writing. In fact, I'll have a review of the newest book, "Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past" on Thursday. "Peggy" is solidly mystery while later books in the series have a mystery in them but are more Southern literary fiction.

National Animal Welfare Week - A Guest Post & An Excerpt from Doghouse by L.A. Kornetsky

 

It's Animal Welfare Week! Well, according to some calendars, October 6th -12th is Animal Welfare Week. However, when I tried Googling it, I found little solid information. So I have a few links for you concerning proper welfare for pets and a link to a facebook page on Animal Welfare Week, although it hasn't been updated since 2012.

Animal Welfare Week on Facebook
Animal Welfare on the American Veterinary Medical Association site

Pet care on the ASPCA site
Animals and resources on the Humane Society site

Animals are living beings; they need care, time, and respect. In my not so humble opinion, you shouldn't have animals, be they pets or working animals, if you are unable or unwilling to care for them. If you need help or information, there are resources: friends and co-workers, boos, the web and the sites mentioned above as well as many others.

Over the summer, I acquired some beta fish, despite knowing next to nothing about them. But I've asked acquaintances, I've Googled, and I've asked questions at several pet shops. Now, I am able to care for them properly, but for a while I was asking questions non-stop. Having brought them home, it's my responsibility to see they are properly cared for.

And now for something a little lighter - I have an excerpt from a new mystery, "Doghouse" by L.A. Kornetsky starring a cat and a dog and their humans trying to solve a mystery. It's the third book in the Gin and Tonic mystery series.

Bea Reviews Love on the Boardwalk by Christi Barth

Publisher: Carina Press 
Format Read: PDF converted to Kindle
Source: the author in exchange for an honest review
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Buying Links: Amazon*  | ARe* | Barnes & Noble | 
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Blurb from goodreads:

Atlantic City is the perfect place for detective Bradley Hudson to nurse his broken heart. A week of beer and strippers is sure to erase his former fiancée from his memory for good. What he didn’t count on was running into a sassy redhead from his past. Maybe a rebound romp is an even better plan…
Trina Trimble, private eye in training, is thrilled to be reunited with the hottie she almost hooked up with last summer. She’s undercover on her first solo case, but there’s always time to lock lips with a sexy cop. Besides, a fun fling with Brad doesn’t have to last beyond his week in town.
Brad and Trina are supposed to be just flirting, not forging a new forever. Brad’s still healing, and although Trina changes careers the way other women change shoes, she has finally found her calling in her new life of disguises and stakeouts. But when an irresistible job offer threatens to lure her away, Brad will need to decide to let her go or bet it all on love and risk his heart again.
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Sunday Book Share #109

 

 I'm participating in The Sunday Post, hosted by The Caffeinated Book Reviewer; Showcase Sunday hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea; Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga's Reviews; Bought Borrowed and Bagged, hosted by TalkSupe; and Library Loot co-hosted by The Captive Reader and Silly Little Mischief. All of these memes are about sharing the print and digital books received and/or posts and events on the blog.

I had several interviews this week and both were promising. I should know more next week. Today I'm going apple picking then I have to get busy making sugar scrubs, bath salts, and melt and pour soaps to sell at a flea market next Monday. What are your plans? Anything fun or exciting?

Harlequin Joins Scribd & A Scribd Membership Giveaway

 
 
You have probably heard that Harlequin has signed with Scribd. Scribd is a subscription reading service that offers thousands of titles for readers to borrow for a monthly fee. Harlequin has partnered with them to offer 15,000 Titles. These titles, mostly backlis, will be exclusive to Scribd's Ebook subscription service.

September Challenge Wrap Up

Wrap Up

I went a bit nuts this year with challenges; I hope I can accomplish them all. I'm doing pretty well so I have a good chance. The only one I'm not tracking is my goodreads reading challenge; all the rest I'll include in my monthly wrap up post. Although I haven't been tracking my goodreads challenge on here, I made my goal during September. My goal was 200 and currently I'm up to 203. :)

Grab a drink, get comfy, and get ready! 

Reading BINGO Challenge

I've stalled on this one. I need to kick my butt and get back in gear.

TOTAL: 16

Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge - Goal: 1-5

1. Cursed by Angela Addams
2. Shifting Shadows by Patricia Briggs

Bea Reviews Jackaby by William Ritter

Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers 
Series: Jackaby #1
Format Read: I downloaded an eGalley from the pub but never got it to work so I got the hardcover from the library.
Source: publisher and local library
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Buying Links: Amazon* | Book Depository* | OmniLit* | Barnes & Noble |
* affiliate links; the blog receives a small commission from purchases made through these links.

Blurb from goodreads:

“Miss Rook, I am not an occultist,” Jackaby said. “I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.”

Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.

Doctor Who meets Sherlock in William Ritter’s debut novel, which features a detective of the paranormal as seen through the eyes of his adventurous and intelligent assistant in a tale brimming with cheeky humor and a dose of the macabre.