The Hour before Dark by Douglas Clegg

Another book that I didn't like at the beginning,but got better as I went along. Very suprise ending.

The Ignored by Bentley Little 

I didn't like this book at the beginning, but the middle was good. The end wasn't bad, but defintely not what I was expecting. I'm not sure if thats a good thing or not. It was defintely an interesting concept that some people are seen, while others fade into the background. Very thought provoking though. I'd read it again just for that.

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

An ex-con's daughter is brutally murdered and his childhood friend is the homicide detective in charge of the case. This was such a good book! I didn't know who did it until the very end. I could relate to this book so much it was scary at times. The raw emotions. Love, anger, fear. All very real. I'll defintely be reading other stuff from this guy soon.

The cat who turned on and off by Lilian Jackson Braun

Qwilleran, Koko, and Yum Yum have another adventure. In this one Qwill moves into Junktown, an antiqueing neighborhood, only to have mysterious objects turn up in his room, and his landlord murdered.

Darkfall by Stephen Laws

It started out ok, but turned to semi-crap in the middle/near the end. A storm blows up around Christmas and a building full of partiers goes missing. Turns out the reason for it all was scientifically related to electricity. Why can't it just be a damn horror novel??? The very end wasn't bad though.

The Cat Who ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun

This is the 2nd book in The Cat Who...series. Good book. Not much different from the first one, different mystery but thats it. In this one Jim Qwilleran is moved on the newspaper to do Gradious Adobes. He interviews people about their homes and Odd Bunsen, the photographer, goes along and shoots pictures. Some guys jade collection is stolen, and yada yada yada. Thank you and Goodnight.

Rising by Brian Keene

Finally in the double digits! Anyway, this was a really good book. Maybe just because I'm a cheesey zombie novel nerd, but I like to think its because its really good. The author isn't afraid to kill off "main" characters, which I like. And the end is a HUGE cliff hanger. Through the book you meet quite a few different people, and end up getting attached to a couple. As far as the story goes, its your basic end-of-the-world-zombies-are-taking-over type book. But a good one:)

The Cat's Pajamas by Ray Bradbury

I haven't read anything by Ray Bradbury that wasn't different and interesting. This is no different, and is a collection of his stories. In one story, a black boy wants to be white and meets a white boy who wants to be tan. In another a family gets gunned down by a killer, where in yet another is a story about a couple in a bed and breakfast and all the woman does is cry. There is a strange twist at the end of that one, and leaves you contimplating for a while. The Congressmen of The United States gamble away the country, a black woman gets shunned by a white boy she spent her life taking care of, a graffitti artist falls to his death, newlyweds buy a huge old house, two men visit Abraham Lincoln's death train filled with ghosts, a hemophiliac gets murdered in a very interesting way, two people meet and spend the night together because of a stray cat, a woman in love finds out the man she adores loves her sister, a man builds a cement mixing time machine, three little girls share a ghostly experience, a man leaves his wife over trips to Paris, a mob of men tattoo a horrible racist, a man finds dead bodies from the past, humans visit a race of friendly giant spiders, a group of friends sing the night away, a man gives up living because all of his enemies are dead, a man brags about his wealth to a couple on a cruise ship then asks them a question they could never answer, and its all ended with a wonderful poem about a select few dead authors. Not wonderful, but worth a read. The poem is one of the best.

The Cat who could read backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

This is the first book in the many title series The Cat Who...mystery books. In this book you first meet  the main character for the series, Qwilleran, who becomes Art Critic at a newspaper, The Daily Fluxion. You also meet the head Art Critic, Mountclemins, and his Siamese cat Koko. Together they solve a artistic related murder. Not the best book I've read, but hey, its about cats. Who doesn't like books about cats?

The Darkening by Yvonne Navarro - Wicked Willow 1 -

This is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel. Yes, I'm THAT dorky. Anyway, this is the beginning of what would have happened if Willow never stopped doing the bad mojo. In this book she creates a big blue cat demon thingy to steal evil power for her. But she saves it from killing Buffy and does kill Xander,Anya,and Dawn because the ghost of Tara is her "good side" now. It was pretty good. Always gotta love a Buffy book!