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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

What I Just Finished Reading (WIJFR) Storm Front by Jim Butcher

This is the first book in the Harry Dresden novels. When I first started dating D, he recommended the series by saying, "it's about a wizard detective in modern day Chicago." That alone piqued my interest and I'm glad I read it. I believe it was one of Jim Butcher's first novels, and while it was good, you could tell it was his first. The editing wasn't the best (not really his fault) and I remember a couple of inconsistencies. He mentioned that Harry's date with Susan was on Saturday night and later that night he was saying that it was almost midnight on Friday.

The book starts off with Harry being called into a crime scene where two people had died from having their hearts ripped from their chest. According to Harry, the only person who could have done it is a wizard. As he is the only known wizard, he becomes the primary suspect. Not only by the police but by the White Council, which is governed by a group of wizards. He is already on their watch list, so of course this does not bode well for Harry.

Harry has to find out who murdered these people, find the missing husband and clear his name. All the while dealing with a mob boss, the police and his handler from the White Council.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

I would like this for my home library

Even though I'm sure not a lot of people will be wanting to borrow books from me. :)

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Emerald City ComiCon

Was a blast! Of course I was working the entire time, but I loved it! We sold out of tickets on Friday and it was amazingly busy.

I was behind the registration desk for about 98% of the time, but I did get about an hour on the show floor for my yearly trip to see Jeph Jacques at the Questionable Content to get my free sketch and his new print.

I will post the stuff I got later. I did hand Bruce Timm's badge, which I was a little bit of a fan girl about. :)