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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -Dr. Seuss

Thanks for stopping by. I really hope that you take something away from this blog, even if it's just a book recommendation that leads you to a new series or new author that you will enjoy. I know that by keeping this blog, it's encouraging me to try new genres and to expand my horizons as far as reading new books, rereading old, and I'm even inspired to read the classics that I've missed. Because I'm a mom of four, I'll also be adding children's books into my reviews as I try to spend time reading with my kids on a regular basis. So why not review those as well and share them with you?

Books, for me, have always been great escapes. I remember being stranded on the island with the Swiss Family Robinson when I was 10 years old and it was a great place to be as I was having a rough childhood at the time. I flew away with Peter Pan and traveled with Meg through wrinkles in time, in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Now that I mostly read 'grown up' books, I don't travel to islands but I do live in someone else's world (or mind) for a while and it's a great way to get away from it all even if for a short time every day.

Enjoy my blog and as always, happy reading!

Karen

New England is home

Monday, May 9, 2011

Brother Odd, Koontz



Very behind in my posts...sorry about that folks! I will have another one or two posts for you later this week as I'm trying to catch up. Yes, call me a slacker, go ahead! So many books, so little time, what can I say? I prefer reading the books to blogging about them. :)




I won't keep you long on this one. As you know I'm reading this series. But will be branching out from Koontz a bit so as to not bore you. I have a Patterson review coming up this week.

Brother Odd is your typical loveable character. With this book comes some really creepy new monsters that will make you think twice about walking in a snowstorm. Evil can envelope anyplace...even a Monastary and you cannot run from yourself and destiny. That's what I took away from this one. One loveable character leaves us in this book...but another one joins our hero...so I think it will be okay. Not my favorite Odd Thomas book but it was fun and there was a surprise or two in between those covers.

I give this one 3.5 stars as I was able to put it down...I wasn't able to put the others down...so this one was a different sort of a read.
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