Well, the countdown is almost done. Thousands upon hundreds of thousands of muggles wait in baited breath for the next, second to last installment of the popular Harry Potter series from J.K. Rowling. The US publishers have already accepted over 1 million pre-orders, no doubt increased in the last week before the storm breaks. My local Chapters Books has already painted their front windows in a Hogwarts/Potter theme for the book. J.K. has already set up a bunch of readings to commense ...

There is a pattern to my reading. Every year, there are acertain books that I will read again and again. Every Christmas, I will try and Read Stephen King's IT, every summer I will try to read Queen of the Damned or LotR. And every Spring? The Last Herald Mage. This is a trilogy by a talented author by the name of Mercerdes Lackey. This set of three books was given to me by a friend when I came out. It was a interesting book, set in a fantasy kingdom, and the first novelized character ...

For some of you out there, you might have picked up a book one day that was written by a author by the name of Stephen King and been swept away. I know that I was. One dusty summer I was spending at my dad's place, I was rooting through a stack of books and found a Stephen King one. I had read IT the previous winter and was amazingly in love with it. This one was a little different. This one was called The Gunslinger. I read it, and all at once, I didn't like it. THe man in the book, Rola...

As some of you might already read, Anne Riceis angry. USers of the site Amazon.com have been leaving less than flattering remarks about her final book in the Vampire Chronicles, andher career, and she isn't happy about it. A spokesperson for Amazon.com said: " If she choose to read and reply to the reviews, that is her decision. People may post what they want." Apparently what people want to post is not what the recently widowed writer wants to hear. "Writer Anne Rice, whose extra...

If you have read any of my other blogs, you'll notice a trend. I am your average geek. One of my passions is reading books. Horror novels. But I have a beef. I'm staring RIGHT at you Miss. Rice. That is right, Anne Rice, author of over twenty books, most of those one long series of vampire novels, starting with Interview With a Vampire. Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of her writing. She writes beautifully, and as a fledging writer myself, I hope to write as well as her one day. But, t...

Stephen King, most of you know who he is. He is a man with over thirty-five best sellers, world-wide best sellers I might add. He is the man that helped bring back the horror genre in books. Not Thrillers, but genuine horror. Many of you have probably read at least one of his books. But have you read the Dark Tower series? Now, I am not a science fiction kind of person. Things like Star Trek, as a example, don't do it for me. But, these series of books are amazing, at least to me and...