Sandy's Ramblings

Birthday Greetings

2015-01-23T14:11:09Z

Many happy returns of the day to bogwitch. Hope you have a lovely birthday!

Loading problems

2014-12-09T16:18:53Z

Is anyone else who uses Internet Explorer having trouble loading Livejournal? On Sunday, I couldn't get the page to load at home, although I had no problem accessing the site using Firefox or my Kindle. But IE? Not happening. And it was the only site I have bookmarked that wouldn't load.

Yesterday, it loaded both at home and at work.

Today at work? Not loading. I cleared my cache, shut down the computer and rebooted, but it still won't load. I'm using Firefox right now to post this.

It's not that big of a deal except I mostly use IE to browse the internet, and it's a pain in the ass to switch browsers for one stinking website.

Any suggestions?

Birthday Greetings

2014-11-25T14:15:45Z

Happy Birthday, petzipellepingo. Hope you have a wonderful day!

Birthday Greetings

2014-08-23T00:27:34Z

Happy Birthday, elsaf. Hope you've had a great day!

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sp23 @ 2014-08-10T18:09:00

2014-08-10T22:11:08Z

Happy Birthday, spikedluv. Hope you've had a wonderful day.

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Wednesday Reading

2014-07-09T15:46:58Z

Just finished reading:

Pawn of Prophecy (Book 1 of the Belgariad) by David Eddings

Reading now:

Queen of Sorcery (Book 2 of the Belgariad) by David Eddings (a re-read for the umpteenth time. One of my favorite fantasy series.)
- I'm pretty much only reading the Eddings books right now. I've set aside the other two books I was reading, and will get back to them eventually, I suppose.

What I'm reading next:

The rest of the Belgariad and then on to the follow-up series, The Malloreon. Probably.

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Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

2014-07-08T13:43:10Z

Book 35 of 2014

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Pawn of Prophecy is the first book in David Edding's pentalogy "The Belgariad", an epic fantasy following the story of the orphan boy, Garion, raised by his "Aunt Pol" on Faldor's farm in the small, rustic country of Sendaria. His life is a good one until one day the old storyteller, Mr. Wolf, comes to the farm and suddenly Garion is whisked away from the safety of the farm and thrust into a dangerous quest to find a mysterious object that has been stolen and that Mr. Wolf can track in some strange way. If isn't long before Garion begins to understand that his life is forever changed, and he is caught up in events that affect the entire world.

I love this series, and the next pentalogy set in this world, The Mallorean. As each book came out, I would start with the first book, and read through the entire series, and then when the series was complete, I used to re-read the entire set of ten books at least once a year. I haven't done that for quite a while, however, just recently I got a longing to revisit Garion and Belgarath and Polgara and the rest. Yes, it's like so many fantasy series with the boy upon whom the fate of the world rests, but it's just so very well-written, and I love the characters. Probably my very favorite fantasy series.

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Reading Wednesday

2014-07-02T13:18:53Z

Just finished reading:

From Doon with Death (Inspector Wexford #1) by Ruth Rendell

Reading now:

A Great Deliverance (Lynley & Havers #1) by Elizabeth George
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
Pawn of Prophecy (Book 1 of the Belgariad) by David Eddings (a re-read for the umpteenth time. One of my favorite fantasy series.)
- I'm switching between all three books at bedtime

What I'm reading next:

I haven't made up my mind yet. The lending period for several of the books I had from the library expired, so I'm back on the waiting list for them. However, I do have:

The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver
The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese (true crime) by Daleen Berry & Geoffrey C. Fuller

And a billion other books on my Kindle and in print. So, you know, one of those probably. LOL

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From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell

2014-06-26T14:14:26Z

Book 34 of 2014

From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This first Inspector Wexford book (as well as the first book Ruth Rendell published) begins with a Mr. Ronald Parsons reporting to Inspector Burden of the Kingsmarkham police that his wife is missing. Burden is a little annoyed because he's off duty and is going to the cinema with his wife and Margaret has only been gone a couple of hours. More than likely she'll show up soon, and all will be well. But all is not well because the next day her body is found in the woods, strangled. The investigation begins with the most solid clue being a set of books received by the murdered woman when she was in school twelve years previous inscribed from "Doon" to "Minna". Who is Doon, and what part, if any, did he play in Margaret's death.

I enjoyed this book, and liked Wexford and Burden quite a bit. Published in 1964, Rendell brings in a few twists and turns that were probably quite shocking for the time.

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Reading Wednesday

2014-06-25T13:04:19Z

Just finished reading:

Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Reading now:

From Doon with Death (Inspector Wexford #1) by Ruth Rendell
A Great Deliverance (Lynley & Havers #1) by Elizabeth George
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie - I'm switching between the George book and this at bedtime

What I'm reading next:

I haven't made up my mind yet, but I have from the library and really need to get to:

Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayer
In the Woods by Tana French
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
Cover Her Face by P. D. James

And a billion other books on my Kindle and in print. So, you know, one of those probably. LOL

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The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

2014-06-19T00:54:14Z

Book 33 of 2014

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In January, 1908, Sara Harrison Shea was found dead, murdered, in the field by her home just weeks after the tragic death of her eight year old daughter, Gertie. Her husband, Walter, committed suicide over her body. Her niece Amelia gathered together all the pages of a journal that Sara had kept hidden in her house, edited them, and published them in a book called "The Secret Diary of Sara Harrison Shea". In the book, Sara spoke of "Sleepers", the dead who had been called back by their loved ones to walk the Earth again for a short time. The book as published, however, is not complete, because the pages with the spell and the location used to call back the dead are missing.

In the present day, nineteen year old Ruthie Washburne comes home late from a night of partying with her boyfriend expecting a lecture from her mom, Alice. She's relieved if a little surprised to find that though the lights are on and there's a cold cup of tea on the table, her mother isn't waiting up for her. Thanking her lucky stars, Ruthie goes to bed. The next morning her little sister Fawn wakes her wanting to know where their mom is. It is then that Ruthie discovers that her mom has gone missing. Because her mother had always warned her about keeping away from the police, living off the grid, Ruthie is reluctant to go to the police, and she and Fawn begin their own search.

Katherine has just recently moved to West Hall, Vermont, tracking down a mystery of her own; why had her husband lied to her about where he was going on the day he died in a car crash? Why had he come to West Hall, Vermont instead?

The lives of these people all intertwine, the past shaping the future, and the truth about the disappearance and death is more horrifying than any of them could have imagined.

I really enjoyed this book. It's a horror/paranormal mystery, going back and forth between 1908 and the lives of the Sheas and today and the stories of Ruthie's hunt for her mother and Katherine's search for the truth behind Gary's last day. The beginning of the book was maybe a little slow, but then it really picked up, and I was surprised when I reached the end. This isn't a zombie book, not in the manner of the current zombie craze. The Sleepers are enough different from zombies to make them more interesting and unique. I didn't find the book particularly horrifying, but then it takes quite a bit for a book to do that. But I was engrossed in the tale, and I think that's better.

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Wednesday Reading

2014-06-18T14:16:43Z

Just finished reading:

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

Reading now:

Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
From Doon with Death (Inspector Wexford #1) by Ruth Rendell
A Great Deliverance (Lynley & Havers #1) by Elizabeth George - My bedtime read, this is a re-read, but I don't remember it, so it's like a new read to me. ;-)

What I'm reading next:

I haven't made up my mind yet, but I have from the library:

Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayer
In the Woods by Tana French
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
Cover Her Face by P. D. James

And a billion other books on my Kindle and in print. So, you know, one of those probably. LOL

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sp23 @ 2014-06-17T21:12:00

2014-06-18T01:12:12Z

Almost missed this, but Happy Birthday, cornerofmadness!

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

2014-06-12T14:04:35Z

Book 32 of 2014

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Cop Hater is Ed McBain's first book in the 87th Precinct series, and the first book that Evan Hunter published under the McBain pseudonym. Originally published in 1956, the book introduces us to the detectives and uniformed officers of the 87th Precinct in the fictional Manhattan-like city of Isola,

In Cop Hater, a Detective on the midnight shift is gunned down, shot in the back and killed just blocks away from the building housing the 87th Precinct. Then in rapid succession, two more cops are killed. Detective Steve Carella and the rest of the crew struggle to find out who is doing these murders before more cops are killed.

Back in the 70s, I read a lot of the 87th Precinct novels, and still have several in my personal library, including the second book in the series, The Mugger, that I plan on reading soon. I liked this book a lot, and it was most interesting looking back almost 60 years to see the forensics of the time in action. Needless to say, the book is dated, but it's still a very good, quick read.

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Reading Wednesday

2014-06-11T13:34:29Z

Hey, I actually have something to post today.

What I just finished reading.

I've posted reviews on these to my journal as I've finished, but I've read this past week:

Itsy Bitsy Spider (Emma Frost #1) by Willow Rose
City of Bones (Harry Bosch #8) by Michael Connelly
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch #1) by Michael Connelly

What I'm reading now.

Back in the 70s, I read a lot of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books. A while back, Amazon had the first book on sale for the Kindle, so I bought it. I don't remember if I've already read it (probably), but it's been so long, that I've totally forgotten it. So last night I started:

Cop Hater (87th Precinct #1) by Ed McBain

What I'm reading next:

I've borrowed several books from the library, so one (or all) of the following:

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch #2) by Michael Connelly

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The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

2014-06-10T20:14:55Z

Book 31 of 2014

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

In this, the first Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch novel, a Vietnam Vet/drug addict is found dead in a pipe by the Mulholland Dam. Bosch is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. It is there that he recognizes the deceased as a former tunnel rat like himself. It was their job to enter the miles of tunnels that crisscrossed the villages and farmlands and take out any Cong in there and blow the tunnels. At first glance, it appears that the victim, Billy Meadows, crawled into the pipe to shoot-up and then sleep, but the scene doesn't look right to Harry, and the subsequent autopsy confirms that Meadows was murdered. As Harry investigates, it leads to the discovery that Meadows may have been part of a gang that had broken into a bank safety deposit vault over the Labor day weekend the previous year, taking over two million dollars in valuables. He begins to work with the FBI to see where the murder investigation will take them with regards to the burglary.

Although this is the first book in the series, this is the second I've read. I'm glad I read the later book first, because I found this one a bit draggy in spots, and I'm not sure I would have continued with the series. It was good, don't get me wrong, but I didn't enjoy it as much as City of Bones. The beginning was really pretty slow, the plot was a bit more convoluted than it needed to be, and I wasn't all that satisfied with the ending. However, I will read the rest of the books because I know they get better.

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City of Bones (Harry Bosch #8) by Michael Connelly

2014-06-08T14:35:58Z

Book 30 of 2014

City of Bones by Michael Connelly

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

LA Homicide Detective Harry Bosch is working alone on New Year's Day having allowed his partner the day off to go to a Lakers game. It's been a slow day with only two calls - both suicides - when he gets a call that a man has reported that his dog dug up a bone in the hills by his house, a human bone. Harry doubts it. They get calls all the time like this and the bone is most likely animal. The caller, however, is a retired doctor, and he knows his bones. When Harry gets to the man's house he discovers that it is indeed a human bone, the humerus (upper arm bone) of a child. Harry climbs up the hill following Calamity, the dog, and discovers where she had dug up the bone. He finds a few more small bones, cordons off the area, reports the situation to his boss, and starts the process for investigation. An investigation into the death of a child some two decades previous.

I am one of those people who like to read series in order, but I never did get around to reading the first Harry Bosch book. However the plot of this one really intrigued me, so I borrowed it from the library, started to read it, and couldn't put it down. There are a lot of twists and turns, betrayals, bureaucratic pressure, and Harry's stolid, uncompromising, stubborn insistence that the case be solved, not just tied up with a pretty bow to make the department look good whether or not the solution was correct. I found that I really liked Harry. And this means I'll be going back and reading that first book, and probably the rest of the series.

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Itsy Bitsy Spider (Emma Frost #1) by Willow Rose

2014-06-07T02:07:45Z

Book 29 of 2014

Itsy Bitsy Spider by Willow Rose

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

In 1977, a young Danish woman named Astrid finds herself locked in a bunker. At first she thinks that she'll quickly be rescued, but as the hours and days pass, she begins to realize with horror that she could very well die locked away and forgotten.

In 2012, Emma Frost and her two children, 13 year old Maya and 7 year old Victor, are driving to the tiny island of Fanoe many miles from their former home in Copenhagen. Emma has just inherited a house from her grandmother, and since Emma is currently unemployed and broke, she decided that moving there was the best way she could provide for her family until she decided what she wanted to do. The morning after they arrive, Emma is awakened by sirens and learns that a woman just doors up from Emma's new house has been murdered. Intrigued, Emma decides to write about it. Then more murders follow.

At first I really liked the book, especially the parts with Astrid in the past and her ordeal in the bunker. I also liked the parts with the murderer and his victims. Unfortunately I never really warmed up to Emma. On top of that, I just didn't buy into the ending. It felt kind of rushed to me after the build-up. And if anyone has arachnophobia, this definitely isn't the book for them because there are spiders all over the place. I wonder if Fanoe means place-of-many-spiders.

I got the book for free on Amazon, and I have several others in the series that I also got for free, so I'll probably read them. The book was enjoyable enough even if Emma didn't really capture my interest.

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Reading Wednesday? Not so much.

2014-05-28T13:35:20Z

I haven't been doing the Reading Wednesday meme because I haven't really been reading. As I posted earlier, I do things in spurts, and I'm not in a reading mood right now. I have been re-reading a Piers Anthony Xanth novel (Ogre, Ogre) a bit before bed. It's pure silliness, but I really enjoy Anthony's earlier Xanth novels. Then he got caught up in his own punnery, and the novels deteriorated to the point that they seemed to be written overnight from a list of puns with no thought to the book at all. Purely a cash machine so I stopped reading them. But the early novels? Fun.

I have gotten caught up with most of my shows: The Blacklist, Once Upon a Time, Sleepy Hollow (finally!), S.H.I.E.L.D., Grimm. I still need to watch the entire seasons of The Walking Dead and The Vampire Diaries. These are two shows I *must* watch as marathons. That's just the way I roll. :-) I still need to watch all the seasons of Person of Interest, and the last three seasons of Supernatural, and seasons 2 - 4 of Game of Thrones, so I guess that will be my summer project this year.

Also, because it was up for free on Amazon Prime, I finally watched all of Under the Dome. I had watched the first two episodes, but I kept hearing it wasn't very good, so I didn't watch the rest. However, since the second season is starting at the end of June, I decided to give it another shot, and found I actually kind of liked it. I think watching the entire season straight helped. There are problems, of course: The female Sheriff is, sadly, a total idiot. I know she's young and inexperienced, but she apparently has no awareness of anything that's going on around her, and she swallows every lie Big Jim tells her even with evidence to the contrary served to her on a silver platter. She's a disappointing character because she's so weak this way. Big Jim and Junior. Man, there's a whole lotta cra cra in that family, Yes? LOL

Anyway, I liked the show enough that I'll watch the second season.

I checked TV Guide yesterday to see what the summer shows were going to be, and there is quite a bit of dreck on the schedule, but a couple of promising shows. To my genre loving friends, I read the first two books in the Strain series, and they were awesome. I haven't read the third yet, but I am definitely going to be catching the series. And Tony Head is back on tv in Dominion on Syfy, so I'll be giving that one a try, too.

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Marathon (Wo)man

2014-05-25T14:43:49Z

I have this thing. I do stuff in spurts, like reading 26 books in two months, or like this weekend where I've marathoned a whole bunch of the Marvel oeuvre, ending with finally finishing the last six episodes of Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

It all started Thursday evening when I saw that FX was showing X-Men: The Last Stand. I watched it, at first not remembering that I had actually seen it at the show. Oh, the cheese! You could make a yummy fondue from the cheese in this movie. I hadn't seen an X-Men movie since, but decided that since X-Men: Day of Future Past was premiering this weekend, I probably should catch up, so I rented X-Men: First Class. Wow, so much better! Really liked it. Then I dragged out my DVDs of X-Men and X-Men II.

Then I thought that since Amazon had The Avengers up for freeing streaming with Amazon Prime, I'd rewatch it. But then I thought, hey, I've still not seen the first Captain America, let alone the Winter Soldier. Nor had I seen Thor. The first Cap and Thor were available for rental, so I did. Loved them both.

Yesterday, I went to the theater to see *both* Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Enjoyed them both, and watching the Captain America movie finally gave me the info I needed to watch and understand what the hell was happening with S.H.I.E.L.D. When I got home, I watched Thor: The Dark World (loved it!), The Avengers (still love it *so* much!) and then this morning I finished up watching MAoS.

I thought the MAoS started of kind of slowly way back at the beginning, but I really liked the way the season ended. Makes me very excited to see what they come up with in S2, and I hope that it continues on this stronger note.

So, all-in-all, since Thursday, I've watched, what, ten movies? And then six episodes of MAoS.

I guess I'm just a little bit OCD. LOL

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Deadwood

2014-05-22T02:08:14Z

Just saw that Amazon has all three seasons of Deadwood up for free with Amazon Prime. Looked at the reviews to see if the streaming is 'tidied up' (which, to me, would make it unwatchable), but people are having a cow over the language. Cocksuckers. ;-)

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sp23 @ 2014-04-08T09:11:00

2014-04-08T13:11:46Z

Happy Birthday, enigmaticblues. I hope the upcoming year turns out more wonderful than you could ever have expected!

sp23 @ 2014-03-28T09:19:00

2014-03-28T13:19:26Z

Happy Birthday, grammarwoman!!!

Reading Wednesday

2014-02-26T20:47:18Z

What I've just finished reading:

Where Serpents Sleep (Sebastian St. Cyr, #4) by C.S. Harris

Another really excellent book in the series. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins

The section on the actual trail was the most interesting part in my opinion. The other two sections (pre-murder/post-trial) seemed a bit slow.

What I'm reading now

The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, etc.

Yep, still on the list.

What Remains of Heaven (Sebastian St. Cyr #5) by C.S. Harris

What I'm reading next

At this point, I’m not sure. Whatever appeals to me when I finish the St. Cyr book. Possibly the next in the series

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Reading Wednesday

2014-02-19T15:01:06Z

What I've just finished reading:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

I think everyone in the world has already read this, but I just got around to it. I liked it, but I'm not sure I loved it which seems to have been the majority vote? I don't know. It seemed to be to be a lot of slow build up until Chapter 10 when stuff finally happened. I do have my name in for Hallow Cities but since I'm #16 on the list, it'll be a while before I get that book.

Why Mermaids Sing (Sebastian St. Cyr #3) by C.S. Harris

My favorite so far of the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries. Last book, a young scion of a wealthy family had been found hanging upside down from a tree with his throat cut, drained of blood, and mutilated. This books opens with another son of a wealthy family being stalked and then found similarly murdered. Chief magistrate Henry Lovejoy asks Devlin to help in the investigation which leads to a very shocking cover-up.

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins

Fascinating non-fiction book of the investigation of the murder of a man in 1897 New York and how the battle between William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World heated up and aided in the push toward tabloid journalism. Thanks, guys! /sarcasm

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I never really had much interest in reading this because I assumed I wouldn't like it. However, I decided that this needed to be added to my list of classics that I should read. I'm glad I did. None of Fitzgerald's characters are exactly likeable (except maybe Nick, the narrator, and he's pretty much just the Greek Chorus). I'm wondering if I had read this as a teenager if I would have wept over Jay & Daisy's tragic love. As an adult, I could see how their love affair could have ended no other way for this book.

What I'm reading now

The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, etc.

Yep, still on the list.

Where Serpents Sleep: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery (#4) by C.S. Harris

I can't keep away from these books! In this one, Hero Jarvis, the reform-minded daughter of Lord Jarvis, comes to Devlin to ask for his help. While she's conducting interviews at a halfway house for reforming prostitutes (she's of the opinion that women turn to prostitution not because of sexual deviancy but out of economic need), men break into the house, killing the women. Hero and the woman she's talking to attempt to escape, and while Hero does get away, the other woman is killed. Since they were prostitutes, Hero knows that no one will really investigate their murders (or even acknowledge that there *were* murders since the house is set on fire and the women burned) so she wants Devlin to help her, especially since she believes that whatever happened was because of the woman she was interviewing at the time, a beautiful young woman who appears to have been gently bred.

I have a confession to make with regards to the romantic subplot of these books. I'm totally Team Hero. The author seems to insist on Kat and Devlin, even though she's put up a seemingly insurmountable barrier between the two. However, she's left a gigantic loophole, and I guess she thinks that we'll all root for them to find it and love will win out! Or some such rot. However, I want Hero and Devlin to hook up because I love Hero even though we haven't seen all that much of her. But she's the kind of strong-minded woman bucking against the restraints of her time and class that I really enjoy. Now as I'm only on book four and I don't know how all this works out, I don't want to be spoiled, please, if you've already read the books. Thanks!

What I'm reading next

Beside the millions of books I own that need read, I have borrowed the following from the library so I'll get to them next: Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins (whew!), The Crossing Places by Ruth Galloway, and A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash.

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