Vampire Review Apologizes For Sporadic Publishing Lately

The author of this blog, Tami Jackson, (aka "moi") moved from Washington state to Southern California during the first week in July 2011. Finding a new neighborhood, new home, brand new job, new stores, new friends, a new veterinarian, doggie daycare, new farmer's market and much more ... then having the Pug go through unexpected dental and forehead surgery which called for much comfort care ... well, something just had to go on hiatus this month or this blogger would explode into a million little pieces!

With that explanation in mind, please accept my deepest apologies for the sporadic (at best) schedule of postings here lately. I value my readers immensely and promise to get back on track (posting at least three times a week when I do). For right now? Here's a real and true haunting story that happened inside the new-to-blogger apartment. The home was built in the early 1900s and overlooks the Pacific Ocean. (It's very entertainingly and amazingly haunted.)


  

"BITTEN" - Compelling Book Review By Guest Writer, Kelly Gordon

While the vampires here at VampireReview.blogspot.com currently hybernate inside their caskets (soon to re-emerge) we're all grateful to Kelly Gordon, guest blogger, for this very compelling review of an awesome werewolf book.

BITTEN by Kelley Armstrong

This book helps you look into the life of a woman named Elena who was changed into a werewolf without her consent and shows the struggles with her strong personality and stubbornness in belonging to a pack. Elena struggles with her werewolf needs because she works and lives with humans.

Elena has a difficult time with choosing between two men who are prominent in her life, putting her pack at risk.  She must go outside the pack code to save the pack from murderous mutts.  Elena puts herself at risk as well as the men she loves to save them all.

The characters in this story draw you in...whether you love them or hate them.  I found it hard to put the book down.  The story wraps you up in love, survival, intrigue, belonging and trust.  It is a great read.

There are some computer problems in the world that includes writing Skerricks.  Term has resumed, the pace is as busy as ever at school and I hope Normal Programming (Blogging) will resume next week....

I was one of the winners in this week's Staff Appreciation Draw, so there's some good gnus around as well...

Cheers

Ruth

Picking over the bones: cheap library furniture

Sad though it is to have two major Australian bricks'n'mortar bookshop chains closing (Angus & Robertson and Borders), I noted the other day at the store nearest me that they are selling off a lot of shopfittings, including perspex book holders, wire folding book holders, storage cubes and slatwall, that could be useful for libraries.

I got some perspex book holders (five linked units) for $10.  The wooden storage cubes were $40, the slatwall $100 for a large section (which would suit the end of a shelving run, for example).  Little hinged wire bookstands $2.

Don't know what your local store may have/may have left, but it's an opportunity to obtain some decent quality used bookstore/ library furnishings at bargain prices. (I said hello to the other local TL who happened to be in the shop at the same time...!)

Cheers

Ruth