Review: The Seraph Seal by Leonard Sweet & Lori Wagner

The book "The Seraph Seal" by Leonard Sweet & Lori Wagner is a fictional book about the end of the world. On Dec 12, 2012 nine babies were born and are to fulfill a prophecy to save the world.  This book takes you to the year 2048 when the nine babies are in their 30's, this is the year the earth will destruct and its up to them to save it. The nine people don't realize who they are at the beginning but throughout the book you learn about each one and read as they discover their roll in the saving of the world.

While I found this book to be an interesting read it's incredibly difficult in the beginning to keep the stories and characters being described straight. The book jumps from story to story too many times before it gets back to the start of the stories. If you don't read this book in one sitting you may find yourself having to look back to find out who a character is that is being talked about in later chapters. Once you get towards the end of the book and the characters and their stories all start to intertwine together and make more sense the book gets exciting. I wont tell you if the characters of the book save the world or not.... but I enjoyed their journey. I am not up on my bible chapters and verses but I wasn't lost when they were referring to them so you don't need to be a bible expert to follow. I would definitely recommend this book as a fiction read.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through Booksneeze Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

Summer Solstice June 21 2011

So much for today being the summer solstice... it's about 40 degrees and raining out. It's a great day to curl up in bed or on the couch under a blanket and read a book. I just purchased 10 books at the public library book sale in Duluth. I got all 10 for $5! Don't worry, I plan on reading and review them all. I wish there was a job that involved reading books. That would be my dream job. Actually I'd really like to be the person who reads perspective books from new writers and decide if it's worth a shot on being published. That would be fantastic. I'd also like to be a profession proof reader. I am horrible on my own writing but pretty damn good on other people's writing.  **It's raining so hard right now against the bedroom window where I am typing this... I feel like I'm in the car wash.

Craig and I haven't been up to our usual movie watching craze. I think it's just a winter thing. The last movie we watched was called Drive Angry with Nicholas Cage. I'm not usually a Nicholas Cage fan but this movie was fantastic. Milton (Cage) comes back from hell to save his grand-daughter from devil worshipers whose plan is to sacrifice her. There's a lot of violence, a lot of action, and a fair amount of nudity. Most of the dialogue is cheesy but put together with the great effects and the characters it makes for a pretty good film. I definitely recommend it to anyone.. even those of you, who like me, don't like Nicholas Cage. My favorite part of the whole film is when Milton (Cage) is in a hotel room having sex with this lady and then the bad guys enter and he's shooting his guns and flipping all over the room and the woman is still "on" him and he's still "in" her... its a great scene!

I hope that the sun comes out in the next few days and warms everything up. I just planted flowers out front and I feel like I should have waited. Whose heard of waiting until July to plant your outside flowers?! I hope they survive the cold windy crappy typical Minnesotan weather.

 I need to start thinking about some things to do this summer before it just whizzes right by like it always does. (If we ever get a summer that is) I'm sure we'll take a trip to Valley Fair at some point. Even though I feel like I'm too old to have any fun there anymore. I just can't do rides like I used to. Not that I ever could do very  many rides... the spinning ones make me sick, which is a large majority of the rides there. Roller Coasters are good for me if they're not to jerky. There's one there called the Excalibur and I want to say it's their oldest one and it's made out of wood. That thing hits the corners so hard when you get out of the little cart your whole body could be bruised up. Ah summer.... hurry up!

Review: Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover

Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover

While reading this book I got the distinct feeling I kept losing my place and was reading the same paragraph over and over again. I'm not really sure what exactly was happening in this book. I know that sounds funny considering I just read the whole thing.

The story line is basically a guy (the master) waking up over and over again either by himself or by the maid. He goes about his morning routine which basically consists of his boner shrinking back into his pajamas, peeing really loud in the bathroom, and getting pissed his towels are damp when he gets out of the shower. The spanking the maid part comes in after she has started her cleaning for the day. He finds something wrong with at least one thing if not more that she does and spanks her. Sometimes with his hand, sometimes with a rod... sometimes a bull pizzel (which I had no idea what it was so when I looked it up Dictionary.com gave me: A whip made from a bull's penis.... gross) was even mentioned a few times. The book does switch over to the maid's point of view a few times which is where we find out that she's cleaning to please him and his continuously hopeful, even at the end of the book, that one day her cleaning will be perfect. The guy always wakes up half remembering a dream and by the end of the book it's almost as if the maid is actually the dream part and he's acting out in his dream because of his reaction to something he's done in real life ... but it never really comes out and says that, and he never remembers his dream when he wakes up.

As if this story line wasn't weird enough... the maid finds something in his bed every time she takes the sheets off to remake the bed, the grossest one ".. the maid comes in with a dead fetus and drops it down the toilet, flushes it." What the hell right? While I feel like book stole a little bit of my brain cells and it's definitely a half hour of my life I'm not getting back... it was an interesting read. If you don't take the book at face value and instead read into every line and comment made... you just mind find a story line that doesn't involve spanking or the maid.