Reading Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper

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I'm so excited to read this I don't want to go to bed, but I just need my beauty sleep. It's free on Kindle and I've had it for forever and I'm elated to be able to listen to the audiobook! I wish I could get all the books in the series. It's narrated by Carla Mercer-Meyer because I've been in a slump I don't really feel good about anything lately. I've heard good things about Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper so we shall see. I mean if you are into ghosts then it should be good. I thought it would be a good spooky Halloween read.
I've read, and loved, J.LBryans The Paranormals and Songs of Magic, so I am familiar with the author and I like what I've read so far. Yay!
So far we have the ghost of Mercy Cutledge and they are trying to excise it or get rid of it from a home the Treadwells live at present. It used to be the house of Augustus March. There is history and many people died in that house. The Ghost of Mercy Cutledge isn't leaving though. She used to live in an Asylum when she was alive and the authority regarded her as crazy. Scary detective work investigating the old abandoned mental hospital.
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A Musing Wolfman

The dictionary defines a muse as a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist.

Take a short excerpt from a book that describes something scary or some creature that you remember.

What scary thing or creature lurking in the shadows will you shed light on?

In Magic Bites, Ilona Andrews writes about A Wolfman-

Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews Ch. 4 page 93-94

The Wolfman comes tapping at Kates window. . . .

Two amber eyes glared at me, full of longing and hunger. A face that was a meld of wolf and human leaned on the glass. Its misshapen, horrid jaws did not fit together right and long strands of drool hung from its crooked yellowed teeth. The skin around the lupine nose wrinkled. The nightmarish thing sniffed the glass, blowing air through its black nostrils and making a small opaque circle of condensation. It raised one deformed hand and tapped the glass with an inch-long claw. Tap, Tap, Tap. The nightmare opened his mouth and produced a low guttural growl, the frustrated snarl of a mind gifted with the power of speech but locked in a body unable to produce the words. Only the most adept of the shapechangers could speak in a midform.

The Countdown Commences

Booktober, Blogoween, Inktober, Drawlloween and all the others in between has begun. October has commenced which means I will be posting something to do with books and Halloween at least for 13 days out of 31. Fingers crossed, and if my @#!'ing computer will cooperate. I am doing Blogoween on my other blog if I'm not here I am there: @ Jackie's Forget Me Nots 

Free audiobook - Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Hurry, the offer won't last for long. Penguin random house is giving away a free download of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, narrated by Jim Weiss.

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Boo Berry Fun Marshmallow Treats For Halloween

Courtesy of Heather Rodes Hubpages

Ingredients

6 cups Boo Berry Cereal
5 and 1/2 cups Marshmallows, mini
3 tablespoons Butter

Instructions

1. Grease a 13x19-inch pan or dish. Cut a piece of wax paper or parchment paper large enough to cover pan. Set both aside.
2. Place butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Melt in microwave on high for 45 seconds or until melted. Be careful, bowl may be hot!
3. Add marshmallows. Toss them until coated with butter.
4. Return bowl to microwave and cook for 45 seconds. Carefully give a stir and microwave for another 45 seconds or until marshmallows are completely melted and mixture is well blended.
5. Add cereal immediately and mix well.

6. Scoop cereal and marshmallow mixture into greased pan, distributing as evenly as you can but working quickly.
7. Place parchment paper over cereal and press down until mostly even and well distributed. Peel off paper and discard.
8. Cut into squares when completely cooled.

Tips for Making Great Boo Berry Squares

• A 10-oz bag of mini marshmallows is more than enough for this recipe.
• Using six cups of Boo Berry leaves a little bit in the box so you can still enjoy a bowl of cereal!
• Make sure your dish is greased first-- this whole process goes very quickly and you have to work fast.
• Be careful! Your microwavable dishes, butter and marshmallows may get very hot.
• You can pop your dish in the refrigerator to cool your squares more quickly.

A Haunting Halloween Thriller

The Gingerbread Man by Maggie Shayne

"Run, run, run as fast as you can..... you can't catch me cause I'm the Gingerbread Man"

It was Ivy Newman's favorite book as a child. Ivy was abducted and presumed dead after her and her sister, Holly, took a different route on their way home one day. Holly escapes but never recovers fully from the terrible ordeal that took her sister, Ivy, away from her causing her to live on the brink of insanity.

After a cop finds two children who had gone missing in a run down building, dead and putrefying, he more or less loses his calm and his cookies, and is forced to take a vacation. They'd been victims of a case of child molesting.

He finds himself in a quiet small town after he pursues a lead about a missing library book -The Gingerbread Man- It was found at the scene of the crimes of the two children.

I love the mystery, suspense and climax and the people involved in it. It was hard to miss the culprit in a small town where people seemed to be so connected and knew each other well. I was blown away and shocked when the truth was revealed. I know you will be too.

My Rating:

Goodreads review

Since the day her baby sister was taken, Holly’s mind hasn’t been the same. PTSD, panic attacks, nightmares and blocked memories have plagued her ever since. And now they’ve returned.Hard-edged Detective Vince O’Malley’s most recent case penetrated even his protective shell. Ordered to take time off to recover, he can’t let go, and on his own, follows the clues to Holly’s small upstate NY town.His presence stirs ghosts from the past, shadows of a little girl lost, the suspicions of some tight-lipped locals with secrets to hide, and more than that inside Holly’s fragile mind and untouched heart.

About the Author

For a more formal and indepth Bio of the author click here

Werewolves Bark At The Moon

"'And I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down" goodbye dresden. 

"Death by fairytales. Hells Bells" - Harry Dresden in fool moon

Whereas I'm not particularly keen on werewolves, perhaps it is because they always seem to die (I'm thinking Van Helsing or Bram Stoker's Dracula) or maybe it's because they are brutal ugly creatures. In any case they seem to have taken on a more evincing role in Twilight. Taylor Lautner who plays Jacob Black is a shapeshifter kind of wolf . I know bah right?

Anyway there are werewolves in Kresley Cole's The Immortals After Dark Series, a paranormal romance, that are just as formidable as Jacob from Twilight. My kind of werewolf would be a supernatural being that only changes into werewolf form when it's either angry or on a full moon. Call me an idealist.


Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night (Immortal's After Dark #4) by Kresley Cole.

Bowen spends two centuries of his life grieving because of a damn sorceress' spell!! Haxa had enchanted him to Mariah, a fey princess years ago, making Bowen think Mariah was his mate, but it almost destroyed him when she died. Haxa had killed her and fed off his grief for centuries! She also used Bowen to get to Mariketa, the Awaited One. Mariketa is a witch, soon to become a powerful sorceress. They fall in love and this is their story...I LOVED IT!

Out of all the Immortals after dark one stands out as the strongest: Malkom Slaine. He's a cross between a Vampire and a Demon. Love him. Carrow Craie finds him in the realm of Oblivion. You can find him in Demon from the Dark .

Lothaire is the oldest of the Vampires and has succumbed to bloodlust but not entirely insane. In IAD, vampires who kill to eat carry with them all the memories of the one who they fed upon and killed which can mean for some pretty bad nightmares.
Conrad Wroth is a vampire who is on the verge of insanity as well. You can find him in Dark Needs at Night's Edge.

There are still a list of other characters that I absolutely love. Nïx the Ever-Knowing aka Nucking Futs Nïx is a Valkyrie. Rydstrom and Cadeon are demons. They have horns on the side of their head that are rather intriguing, and Witches such as the beautiful, powerful Mariketa and Carrow Craie. Of course I loved this series and I hope you enjoy it as well.

You may find the list of characters @ http://www.kresleycole.com

Countdown To Halloween Starts Today

To find out more about it just click the boo berry Cryptkeeper logo. Whatever possessed me to think I'd ever be able to do this?! Oh well. 

Day 1

Out of the many great books with wizards, monsters, werewolves, ghosts, witches, vampires, faeries and other creatures comes one of my favorites that I love to read about.

The Harry Dresden files by Jim Butcher is about a wizard who investigates supernatural disturbances and helps solve murder investigations for the Chicago Police Department. He is the only one who is competent enough to defend and handle such cases involving supernatural creatures in the entire city of Chicago.

So in Grave Peril  Harry Dresden fights to stop a creature that is referred to as the Nightmare. The creature creates torture spells and eats part of people's soul.

"Let me get this straight. This creature, this thing, has been torturing powerful spirits for a couple of weeks with this barbed-wire spell. It tore up a bunch of stuff on consecrated ground. Then it blew through somebody's threshold and tore his spirit apart, and slapped a torture-spell on him?"-Grave Peril by Jim Butcher Chapter 14: Page 115 


There are many evil villains in this book. Leonid Kravos, being The Nightmare, is just the bigger one and the book's main focus. Agatha Hagglethorn's ghost is killed at the end of Michael's sword. Leanansidhe, Harry's evil faery godmother plays a part but turns out she only wants to help Harry, not kill him. Mavra the black court vampire wants to kill Harry as does Bianca St. Claire and her court of red vampires. This book is a lot of fun and one of the best in the series but then again I haven't finished reading all of 'em.

Boo Berry The Cryptkeeper

I've been busy gearing up for an allhallowsread blogoween and the task isn't going to be an easy one. Starting in October, I will be joining with all kinds of halloween bloggers in the 2013 Countdown To Halloween, where I am posing as the Boo Berry Cryptkeeper. It is my desire to share a few scary books for this halloween facade and festivity and I'm also counting on boo berry to help me from being scared to death. Sorta like Bob the Skull was to Harry Dresden

If I do get scared from all the horror I will turn into bruised berry causing me to swear repletively and then I'll be the scary one *shivers.

from Tom Krohne's site

As far as it goes, I had never read a Stephen King novel or liked reading horror books or movies before. BUT I am determined to slowly change that. So, I've made some book choices, some horror, some not so much, that I will be sharing with you all in the next month. I've realized though, that I generally prefer paranormal to horror. Ghosts don't scare me, they never have, at least not yet anyway. Enjoy yourselves this Halloween folks!