Monthly Appointment with my Reading List

First of all sorry for last month, I was out of town three weeks out of four and I had really no time to read, I was working no less than 12 hour per day and when I was back to the hotel I only wanted to sleep. So most of this month list is similar to last month, but I also tried to mix new books with old books I missed.

One Elf Too Many by K.C. Warwick
Fool for Love by Cassandra Gold
Shattered Glass by A.C. Katt
Lords of Deception by Auburnimp
A Certain Pressure in the Pipes by Clancy Nacht
Bonding with Graven by Amber Kell
The Alpha's Pet by Louisa Gough
The One That Was Lost by T.C. Blue
A King's Ransom by Aislinn Kerry
Security by Mike Shade
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Monthly Appointment with my Reading List

First of all sorry for last month, I was out of town three weeks out of four and I had really no time to read, I was working no less than 12 hour per day and when I was back to the hotel I only wanted to sleep. So most of this month list is similar to last month, but I also tried to mix new books with old books I missed.

One Elf Too Many by K.C. Warwick
Fool for Love by Cassandra Gold
Shattered Glass by A.C. Katt
Lords of Deception by Auburnimp
A Certain Pressure in the Pipes by Clancy Nacht
Bonding with Graven by Amber Kell
The Alpha's Pet by Louisa Gough
The One That Was Lost by T.C. Blue
A King's Ransom by Aislinn Kerry
Security by Mike Shade
( more books )

Behind the Cover: Earl Somers Cordrey

Cordrey was born September 6, 1902 in Piru, California.

He grew up Los Angeles, and studied at the Chouinard School of Art in the early 1920s. He began his career as a freelance illustrator in the Sam Hyde Harris studio, and after moving to New York in 1927, studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City.

 

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Specializing in tightly rendered and highly posed romantic scenes, his covers and story illustrations, including those for F. Scott Fitzgerald, appeared in numerous magazines including Cosmopolitan, Redbook, The American Weekly, and Collier’s in the 1930s and ’40s. He also created post cards of the Stork Club and other high profile commissions outside of periodical illustration.

In 1942, he moved back to Southern California and in addition to his ongoing career as an illustrator, worked as an art director and designed the logo for Palm Springs Life magazine, the official seal for the city of Palm Spring, California, and actor William Holden’s Mount Kenyan Safari Club.

He retired from commercial work in 1951, but continued to paint landscapes of the California and Mexico desert until his death in 1977. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators.

Behind the Cover: Earl Somers Cordrey

Cordrey was born September 6, 1902 in Piru, California.

He grew up Los Angeles, and studied at the Chouinard School of Art in the early 1920s. He began his career as a freelance illustrator in the Sam Hyde Harris studio, and after moving to New York in 1927, studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City.

 

( more pics )

 

Specializing in tightly rendered and highly posed romantic scenes, his covers and story illustrations, including those for F. Scott Fitzgerald, appeared in numerous magazines including Cosmopolitan, Redbook, The American Weekly, and Collier’s in the 1930s and ’40s. He also created post cards of the Stork Club and other high profile commissions outside of periodical illustration.

In 1942, he moved back to Southern California and in addition to his ongoing career as an illustrator, worked as an art director and designed the logo for Palm Springs Life magazine, the official seal for the city of Palm Spring, California, and actor William Holden’s Mount Kenyan Safari Club.

He retired from commercial work in 1951, but continued to paint landscapes of the California and Mexico desert until his death in 1977. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators.

One Elf Too Many by K.C. Warwick

This is probably one of the funniest fantasy I have ever read: Amber is a young man in a quest but he doesn’t remember anything if not that he has to save someone somewhere; wandering from place to place he “collects” friends who apparently don’t want to leave him: Nockin, a dwarf who Amber saved from the captivity of an evil enchanter; Marta, a very motherly bodyguard, who Amber hired to protect him, but who takes the task very literally, protecting Amber’s virtue other than his body; Starlight, prince of the elves, who Amber inadvertently bounds to him with a wish (by the way, I forgot to mention that Amber has a very strange pet, a cauldron which provides him money at necessity and grants him wishes, even if Amber doesn’t know it); Adamant, Starlight’s former lover, who actually joins Amber more to “retrieve” Starlight than to really help Amber.

This is not strictly a romance, even if Starlight indeed will manage to debauch a bit Amber and Kevin, Marta’s son, will do somersaults at the heart of Amber. The main theme of this story is to give a fun intake on all the legends about witches, fairies, demons, goblins, elves and so on and so forth; when indeed Starlight and Kevin are alone and able to do something, it’s so fast and so light that you have to read two time the sentence (yes, the sentence, not more than that) to really understand if something happened.

Due to this lightness of the romance side, this is probably a story that will appeal to a wider target; it’s for sure a very light fantasy, it reminds me those movies which parody the “real thing”, but for my taste, I prefer this light version to the full immersion.

It’s true that our heroes will face various adventures, and some of them should be dangerous, but never once the author pushes on that button and in the end, it was always more a fairy tale of the sweet and innocent nature than the dark and heavy story. Plenty of laughs and clever characters are the main ingredients of this fantasy melting pot.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2686

Amazon Kindle: One Elf Too Many

Reading List:

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One Elf Too Many by K.C. Warwick

This is probably one of the funniest fantasy I have ever read: Amber is a young man in a quest but he doesn’t remember anything if not that he has to save someone somewhere; wandering from place to place he “collects” friends who apparently don’t want to leave him: Nockin, a dwarf who Amber saved from the captivity of an evil enchanter; Marta, a very motherly bodyguard, who Amber hired to protect him, but who takes the task very literally, protecting Amber’s virtue other than his body; Starlight, prince of the elves, who Amber inadvertently bounds to him with a wish (by the way, I forgot to mention that Amber has a very strange pet, a cauldron which provides him money at necessity and grants him wishes, even if Amber doesn’t know it); Adamant, Starlight’s former lover, who actually joins Amber more to “retrieve” Starlight than to really help Amber.

This is not strictly a romance, even if Starlight indeed will manage to debauch a bit Amber and Kevin, Marta’s son, will do somersaults at the heart of Amber. The main theme of this story is to give a fun intake on all the legends about witches, fairies, demons, goblins, elves and so on and so forth; when indeed Starlight and Kevin are alone and able to do something, it’s so fast and so light that you have to read two time the sentence (yes, the sentence, not more than that) to really understand if something happened.

Due to this lightness of the romance side, this is probably a story that will appeal to a wider target; it’s for sure a very light fantasy, it reminds me those movies which parody the “real thing”, but for my taste, I prefer this light version to the full immersion.

It’s true that our heroes will face various adventures, and some of them should be dangerous, but never once the author pushes on that button and in the end, it was always more a fairy tale of the sweet and innocent nature than the dark and heavy story. Plenty of laughs and clever characters are the main ingredients of this fantasy melting pot.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2686

Amazon Kindle: One Elf Too Many

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle