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So this is my first time blogging from my iPhone and I'm tryng to see if there are any perks to it or if it'll just be a pain in the butt more then anything.

First, just so you all know I will not be doing full on books reviews via the iPhone simply because I want to be able to add photos, links, you know all the fun stuff. So this will just be a keep in touch type of thing :). Second I will be giving fun hints and updates about the books that I'm reading, or have purchased, or have heard great things about.

Well, I think that's it for now! Ta ta!

Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter Book #1) - By Sherrilyn Kenyon

Taking a break in between novels, I picked this one up because I had heard great things about Sherrilyn as an author and her ability to create amazing stories. Fantasy Lover was no let down!

After being trapped in a book for 2,000 and the only way to get out is by being summoned as a love slave on a full moon, Julian was just waiting around for the next sex hungry female to call on him for a months worth of sex detail. What a crappy deal huh? Well when Grace, a sex therapist who is in desperate need to get laid, and her voodoo dabbling friend Lanie decide on Grace's birthday to try to summon Julian, this time out of the book might be more then Julian could ask for. After what seems like a failed attempt at conjuring up a delicious looking immortal play toy, Grace sees a flash of light coming from her living room. As she rounds the corner to see what was happening, she's suddenly out of breath and is stunned to see a naked, gorgeous, tanned, blond haired man in her living room. Did I mention naked? Both of their first instincts beg them to run to upstairs into the bedroom and not come out for a month, but Grace isn't like that, not even in the slightest. Puzzled as he may be, Julian goes by her rules and plays along.

Soon Grace is introducing him to a world he knows nothing about, and treating him like a human being. He can't remember the last time he was treated as a human being, and not something that was dragged out of the closet and used to bring his keeper pleasure. As his time with her is cut shorter as each day passes, Grace realizes that she wants to find a way to allow Julian his freedom and a try at a real life. Julian calls on the only person that he can think of to help him find an answer....Cupid, or Eros as he likes to be called.

Now with a mission in hand, and the finish line in sight, can Julian & Grace do the impossible to grant his freedom, and possible their chance at love?

Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse - By Laurell K Hamilton

Being Offered to raise an almost 300 year old corpse Anita knows that no matter the amount of power and animator posses the only way to raise a corpse that old is human sacrifice, and Anita does not do human sacrifices. End of story. That is unless there's an eccentric wealthy man who thinks you can be persuaded with money, and if not money then thugs, and if not thugs, well then there are some things that people shouldn't have power over.

This novel was a great continuation from Guilty Pleasures, it has all the suspense, action, and adventure that you came to love in Anita's life before. I will have to say that there is more suspense and action in this book, which I did like. Having a certain about of suspense I believe is key to making any book work. You can have all the action that you like, but if you don't have the reader wondering what will happen next and anticipating turning the page, then the book to me is boring.

 More characters are introduced and looked at a little better in this book. Some of Anita's co-workers, Stg. Dolph, a voodoo queen, her best friend Ronnie, her wonderful boss Bert, and of course Jean-Claude who has not stopped his effort to woo Anita into his arms. When I finished the Laughing Corpse I felt like I had a better understanding of Anita, and couldn't wait to pick up the next Anita Blake novel.

Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures - by Laurell K Hamilton

After being reintroduced into the reading world,via the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, I felt a sudden rush to read, and read, and read.

Anita Blake was given to me by a great friend who thought that I would like it since I had previously only read vampire books who had a few friendly werewolves in them.

Polar opposites is what I got and loved it. Anita is a bad ass, hard to the core woman who's known as an Animator, which means she raises the dead for a living. She absolutely despises vampires, thinks that they're nothing but a walking corpse. In an age where vampires are running bars & strip clubs, and have the same rights as every living, breathing human does, Anita finds herself launched between a rock and a hard spot when she's approached by a very powerful vampire in her city and is asked to help them figured out who is behind some of the unsolved vampire murders that are happening in St. Louis.

During her reluctant investigation Anita must work with people she doesn't know, or trust. Thrown into a different type of world she has no desire to join or even wander into, she must now completely surround herself with it. If being stalked by a dangerous assassin (who's also a former ally) isn't enough, try throwing the fact that she is catching the eye of an extremely sexy "walking corpse"! And all while trying to raise the dead and get her job done.

I will admit that it took me a little while to get into this book, but I'm glad that I did because it really creates a great starting point for this series.

Slow and steady wins the race....I didn't know there was going to be a race!

Daily, that's how I'm going to do it! Post at least once a day, what do you think? I know it's impossible to read one book everyday, well for me it is anyways, but I want to post on here to be able to stay in contact with people who might actually one day follow my blog and enjoy it. I might even want to stay in contact with the people who don't like what I say, but read it anyways. :)

Here's my 5 simple rules that I want to try and follow during this whole blogging experience:

1. Blog everyday
2. Blog at the end of every book I read
3. Reply to every comment, idea, or thought someone posts on my blog
4. Sucker all my friends into reading my blog
5. Inspire you or a friend or a co-worker to read whichever book I've blogged about.

Through this process I want people to be inspired to read more, take a little time out of your day to get wrapped up into a world unlike the one you live in. Lose yourself in a book every once in a while....you just might like it.

Teaser Tuesday 28.9.2010

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by LizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers

Share the title and author too so that other Teaser Tuesday participients can add the book on their TBR lists, if they like your teasers!

My teaser is from page 45 of Tell It to the Bees by Fiona Shaw.

     "There was no more sleep to be had, but the morning was hard and unyielding, and Jean got up into it slowly, her limbs frighted with reluctance.
      As her body surfaced, Mrs. Sandringham's words came back to her and a wash of sadness ran across her, that it was only ever her own hands that caressed or cradled her."

What are you reading now?

Library Loot 25.9.2010 & R.I.P Short Story: The Cask Of Amontillado

Library loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg that encouragers bloggers to share the books they have checked out from the library. If you would like to participate, Mr. Linky is this week over at Marg's blog The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader.

My loot this week is quite small. I have so many books from previous loots waiting for their turn that my card is almost full. The upper limit of loans on a card in our library is 40. I guess, I have something like 36 items on my card at the moment: novels in English and in Finnish, plus some nonfiction, including a few books I've borrowed for professional reasons. I'm very interested in multicultural/intercultural/diversity issues and am trying to broaden my knowledge on diversity management at the moment. But, lets go back to my loot. :)

• Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen): Anecdotes of Destiny
  The back cover promises five superb tales of gothic wit and mysticism. Sounds perfect for R.I.P. Short Story Challenge. I just love the movie Out of Africa starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford that was based on Blixen's memoir of the same name. "I had a farm in Africa..." for me that is one of the most memorable first lines in books and ever since I saw the movie and also a wonderful old interview programme with Blixen I have wanted to read her works. Somehow, however, I never have before this! Now I am determined to correct that by reading at least one story from this book for R.I.P.
• Engle, Margarita: The Firefly Letters
  When I first saw this book at work I immedietely knew it would be a must read for me! Engle tells the story of Swedish women's rights pioneer Fredrika Bremer's mid 19th-century journey to Cuba. And she tells it as one long poem!
• Goodall, Jane & Thane Maynard & Gail Hudson: Hope for Animals and Their World
  I admire Dr. Jane Goodall for her pioneering work among the chimpanzees in Gombe and for her work for peace. This book is a collection of survival stories about animal species that have been endangered but are now recovering. And isn't the cover photograph just lovely! Dr. Jane and the little chimp both looking at the sea. :)
• Miller, Kei: The Last Warner Woman
  This is a novel about the life of Jamaican born Adamine, who is born in one of the last leper colonies on the island, later learns she has the gift of "warning", moves to England, and as an old woman tries to tell her own story and compete with a novelist writing a book about her and twisting her words. I don't think I have ever read anything by a Jamaican author. This book seems like a good first in that aspect.

On the R.I.P. front I'm not been able to keep my selfimposed schedule of posting on R.I.P. short stories every Monday and Friday. I had every intention to post yesterday, but fell asleep on the couch before I even got started! Well, this is going to be a combined Library Loot & R.I.P. post now.

I found the Read Print site just resently. There are, for example, many short stories by Edgar Allen Poe on the site, and for this post I chose to read the one called The Cask of Amontillado. Actually after starting with the story I pretty soon realised I had read it once before. It was well worth a reread.

In this short story Montresor feels he has been gravely insulted by Fortunato and wants to punish Fortunato accordingly, "not only punish, but punish with impunity". Fortunato, however, has no idea there is anything but amiable feelings between them. When Monresor approaches Fortunato, compiments his knowledge in vines, and tells he has aquired some Amontillado, but has his doubts about the vine, Fortunato is more than happy to assist in determinig the quality of the purchase. What follows is a journey down to the vaults below the Montresor palazzo -and to a complete and horrible punishment of Fortunato by Montresor.

Edgar Allen Poe, of course, was a master of his art. This story in all its gothic creepiness is a perfect example of that.