The Blue Librarian

Quoting NY Times' article from 1993: ''Boxing Helena' is a kinky macabre tale of an erotic fascination.' For some is a movie cult, for others was harder to digest. The movie was definitely controversial even before its release due to the scandalous law suit between the studios and Kim Basinger who got cold feet and refused to film the movie. It had extreme bad reviews after its release, despite its nomination for Grand Jury Prize at 1993 Sundance Festival. What critics and viewers failed to truly understand is the influence David Lynch had upon his daughter,  Jennifer Chamber Lynch, 'Boxing Helena' director. We all know David Lynch as the man behind 'Blue Velvet' and 'Twin Peaks' Twin Peaks is a cult TV series from the 90’s. The twisted mind of David Lynch mixed with the great talent of Kyle MacLachlan, the unmistakable features and great performances of Sherilyn Fenn, Lara Flynn Boyle and Mädchen Amick and the surreal soundtrack made ...

I've been reading Molly Harper's books for over ten years now and she never ceases to surprise me. She has an incredible sense of humor and a knack to build interesting female and male characters that will keep me engaged throughout each of her books. The first book I read was 'Nice girls don't have fangs' and I connected instantly with the main character who is a librarian that gets turned into a vampire after the town drunk idiot mistakes her for a deer while walking home, shots her and lets her to die on the side of the road. While Molly's first and most famous series is concentrated around vampires, now she decided to go into a different direction: dragons! 'How to date your dragon' was a great surprise, not only for the change of subjects but because I decided to purchase it as an audio book. I can only say that this added an extra flavor to the book. We have the main characters, Jillian Ramsay, brought to life by the narrator Amanda Ronco...

Being a cop is difficult but being a cop in a small city where Gods come to take a vacation adds a new meaning to the word stress. So welcome to Ordinary! Let your worries behind, embrace a new life, a new name and mingle among Gods, creatures, vampires, werewolves and humans alike. If you need a place to stay Hades runs a cozy B&B down the street. Looking for a new suit? Zeus is the guy for you, his fancy shop is worth the money. Want a souvenir? Why don't you buy a wooden sculpture from Odin? Need someone to supervise your kids? Ares runs the local kindergarten. In the evening you can go grab a beer and something to eat at Hera's pub, play pool with vampires and werewolves and meet the town law enforcement family - the Reed sisters. Police chief Delaney Reed and her sisters Myra and Jean are the main characters in Devon Monk's 'Ordinary magic' series. All three of them possess special skills suitable for their jobs. Delaney, the oldest, is the bridge f...

      I rarely come across a book that I end up reading in a day. I admit, I like funny romance books from time to time. They are relaxing, put your mind at ease after a stressful day.       It is a habit I took in college when at the end of each semester I used to have a round of eight exams almost one after the other and after all that pressure I really needed a brain eraser. And this is when the romance books come into play. It was over twenty years ago, before the times of Harry Potter, light vampire stories and tons of teenager focused romance literature. It was the time of Sandra Brown and Sidney Sheldon, and, much as it is today, those books were following the same pattern and story line so it is not quite a surprise I cannot remember much about them. After all, I was calling them brain erasers because they were having that reset effect.       Nowadays, if you do not want to read vampire or different kind of undead or supernatural ...

There is no need for many words to write a good story. There is no need for complicated words for the story to touch your soul. 'The spirit hour' is a collection of five short tales about lost souls: 'The Blue Lady', 'The Phone Call', 'Haunted Hearts', 'Blue Angel' and 'The Reawakening'. Almost every one of them is different but all  are touching your heart in a very distinctive way. You feel the loss, you feel the pain and the heartbreak. When you pick up the book you imagine you will find inside the Grim Reaper, horror stories with a twist and yes, some of them may scare or frighten you but not in the way horror stories do. You meet in these pages the ones that passed away and the ones that are left behind. You feel their loss, you mourn them and you get to cherish life and the people around you even more with every turning of the page. For me, Tara Theresa Hill's book was a memorable read and her collection of stories will be...

What do you do when you find your surgeon husband playing tonsils hockey with a nurse in the OR? You pack your stuff, move into your best friend spare cottage, hide indoors and stuff your face with cheesecake and ice cream till the severance money run out and then start working as your best friend assistant at the city morgue. OK, maybe this is not what you'd do but it is what Mattie Winston did. Former ER and OR nurse, she cannot go back working in the Sorenson's only hospital where the whole affair happened and her husband is working still so her best friend Izzy decides to use her cutting people skills and nosiness and have her help him as deputy coroner. While Mattie is a fair skinned, 6 feet blonde with a body that has a healthy layer of thermal insulation, Izzy has olive skin, is 5 feet tall, gay and as wide as he is tall. He plays house with Dom, a fair skin beautiful man with insane cooking skills and great sense of humor and provide support to Mattie in her trans...