Last year (during a book event – go figure) I learned a very important lesson. One that for obvious reasons (I was raised by a wheelchair bound mother) I thought I fully understood. “Your past can only dictate your future if you allow it.” See, I was sitting in a room full of very hyper teenagers (and roughly 40 amazing authors) when Libba Bray (author of Going Bovine, the Gemma Doyle Series and The Diviners) walked on stage to deliver her keynote speech. At first she kept it light. Making cracks about getting bad perms and annoying bodily functions (that
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Eight years ago I learned a rather interesting lesson. That lesson being: The second you have a child, every fear you have ever possessed instantly become obsolete in comparison to the fear you have of losing your child. Claustrophobia. Arachnophobia. Achluophobia. Chump change. The loss of a child is just something you do not recover from. Yes, a funeral, a trip or two to a therapist and moral support from your friends and family will help you deal with that loss (“Come to terms with it” is the phrase I hear bounced around the most.) And after a few years you are bound
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Quote This… “Something lingered in my room. Like the dust hovering in the slant of light beside my bed. Like the air before a thunderstorm. The threat of something coming.” Hysteria is defined as: a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks, disturbances of sensory and motor functions, and various abnormal effects due to autosuggestion. Autosuggestion: self-administered stimuli which reaches ones mind through the five senses. One more. Conversion disorder: a mental disorder in which physical symptoms, as paralysis or blindness, occur without apparent physical cause and instead appear to result from psychological conflict or need. Daunting aren’t
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A girl can only take so much angst, so realizing (2 days ago) that I have read WAY to many YA books lately, (and I’m starting to have horrendous HS flashbacks) I decided to jump back into an old favorite of mine…Psychological thrillers. Back in December I left y’all hanging, (with what I’m now proclaiming to be a ridiculously tiny excerpt,) of Andrew’s Kaufman’s newest book “The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted.” And since I too, was left hungry for more, I decided it was high time that I get to it. I am not a newbie when it comes
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Good Morning Lovlies!!! Today I have a special treat for you. The wonderfully talented, mildly psychotic, Scott Nicholson is hosting a contest and has chosen KO as one of his golden children to front it. Yay! *happy dance* So… what is he giving exactly? Well… let’s find out. **Cue drum roll** Scott has graciously decided to give away 1 $10 gift certificate! How do you win this little ditty? Well, you can get 1 point for tweeting this post, 1 point for Facebooking, and 1 point for commenting below. Scott will then draw a winner on April 8. Now.. of
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Everyone loves a good Insane Asylum agreed? Take the criminally insane, add a dash of conspiracy and you are bound to have a fantastic time. I absolutely, without fail, LOVED this book. I loved it so much that I can’t even talk about it the way I should because if I do I will spoil it for you. “Shutter Island” was one of the most masterfully plotted books I have read in years… I was astounded by the depth and creativity that “Dennis Lehane” was able to shove into a little over 330 pages, and even more… I was flipping
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Every once and a while my “little” obsession with the written word has perks. While devouring mythical tales or getting into the mind of the mentally disturbed is more often than not a joy of its own…there are still those bright shining moments in time when I get to do the reading before everyone else, or even better…I get to do it for free. “Scott Nicholson” emailed me last week and asked me if I would like to check out his upcoming novel “The Skull Ring” and I’m not going to lie…while I was excited to have the opportunity read
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For those of you who have been keeping track, you know its been a while since I’ve read a novel like this, (The last being a Temperance Brennan Novel) after reading the genre for 4 straight months, book after book, my mind/sanity thought it was necessary to take a break from serial killers and their maniacal crime scenes, so I did… , and in turn wrapped myself in the more mellow reads of the paranormal. (Ok…not all of them were tame…but trust me when I say they are a damn site less descriptive) It’s hard to pinpoint, in my cynical
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