The Devil’s Company continues the story of Benjamin Weaver, a Jew in early 1700’s England who used to be a pugilist and now makes his living as a “thief-taker” – in other words, he tracks people down. In this story, Weaver is blackmailed into taking a case that requires him to infiltrate the East India…
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Review: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
(Spoiler alert: don’t read if you’re still planning to read The Hunger Games) I was surprised by how much I enjoyed The Hunger Games — I was expecting Twilight but these books are fun, thoughtful reads . I was also put off at first by the fact that Hunger Games seemed like some combination of…
Seven movies based on Wizard of Oz in production
At least one Oz-based movie has wrapped up production, called The Witches of Oz (see trailer here). At the same time, there are at least four other Oz-related movies in planning, and none of them seem to have any interest in fidelity to the books. An article at Just Press Play has more details about…
Review: Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews
This is Book 4 in the Kate Daniels series, and just as with the others each book in the series is stronger than the one before it. This series may have surpassed my other favorite, Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson series. I don’t normally read a book in one or two days because I like to…
The Book Stop 