Monthly Archives: January 2008

Jan 25
2008

Chill Factor – A QR

[  Mood: Sick ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]Joanne Baldwin is newly alive and up to her neck in trouble. She and her Djinn, David, are trying to stop a psychopathic teenager who’s stolen the most powerful Djinn in the world … Continue reading

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Jan 24
2008

Measuring Your Ass Temperature

[  Mood: Happy ][  Currently: Watching Coronation Street ]Todd Maffin is a CBC technology reporter and an all round geek. He has an interesting blog entry on Microsoft’s plans to patent biometric technology. Read all about it here.

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Jan 23
2008

Uglies – A QR

[  Mood: Sick ][  Currently: Watching The Amazing Race Season Finale ]Everyone in Tally’s world wants to be beautiful. Luckily at sixteen everyone in Tally’s world is made beautiful through surgery. Tally, at fifteen and nine months, can’t wait to move from … Continue reading

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Jan 21
2008

The Freak

[  Mood: Silly ][  Currently: Eating Breakfast ]Jade comes down with a fever one day on summer vacation and nearly dies. We are talking out of body experience, traveling down the tunnel to the white light and meeting her granddad. She gets … Continue reading

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Jan 20
2008

His Majesty’s Dragon – A Quick Review

[  Mood: In Love ][  Currently: Watching Canadian Figure Skating Championships ]In fantasy the dragon is almost iconic. It shows up everywhere and has been used in so many ways, hero, pet, villain, plot device, you name it. And I have read … Continue reading

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Jan 18
2008

Dharma Would Like It!

[  Mood: Sick ][  Currently: Working on the blog ]Okay – that title is a misleading one. Sort of. This entry should probably be called "I Am America and So Can You! – A Quick Review" But as I read the book, … Continue reading

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Jan 15
2008

Women of the DC Universe Challenge

This is a sweet little page where people have customized dolls and the like to look like the women of the DC Universe. Guess which one I like? Come on guess!

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Jan 14
2008

A Good Ghoul’s Guide to Getting Even – A QR

[  Mood: Sick ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio One ]Elizabeth Fraiser is an overachiever. She’s in her junior year, a straight A student, editor of the school newspaper, cruised through her SATs and has several early offers of admission. Then she … Continue reading

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Jan 12
2008

Heat Stroke – A quick Review

[  Mood: In Love ][  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio One – Quirks and Quarks ]At the end of the first book of the Weather Warden series, Joanne Baldwin finds herself dead and then resurrected as a Djinn. I wondered how the … Continue reading

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Jan 12
2008

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – A QR

[  Mood: Fed Up WIth Life ][  Currently: Watching Dresden Files movie ]So my re-read of the Harry Potter series has moved on as my missing book has miraculously appeared. I found I enjoyed this book much more the second time through … Continue reading

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