My Review: This is the second book in Anna Hackett’s re-release of her Phoenix Adventures series, and I was reminded yet again of how much I loved this series back when it came out ten or so years ago. I’m also pleased beyond imagining that the stories - at least so far and we’ll certainly see - are still just as good a decade later.

My Review: Lake Argen is NOT Toronto - in spite of what the blurb says. In fact, that’s kind of the point of the place, that it is DEFINITELY NOT Toronto. Because what happens there, and how it happens, and why it happens, wouldn’t be remotely possible in a big city like Toronto. So that’s precisely where Lake Argen is - remote from Toronto - or pretty much anywhere else.

This is the 699th Stacking the Shelves post here at Reading Reality, and tomorrow is my 69th birthday. Who says there are no such thing as coincidences? Today is the penultimate, meaning next-to-the-l...

My Review: This is the second book in Anna Hackett’s re-release of her Phoenix Adventures series, and I was reminded yet again of how much I loved this series back when it came out ten or so years ago...

Today marks the start of Reading Reality's FIFTEENTH Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week. When I looked ahead this time last year, I realized that this year's celebration would be weird as both Reading Reality's official blogoversary, April 4, and my own birthday, April 5, both fell on a weekend. This time last year, I thought I'd be conducting the Celebration Week BEFORE the official dates.

This is the 699th Stacking the Shelves post here at Reading Reality, and tomorrow is my 69th birthday. Who says there are no such thing as coincidences? Today is the penultimate, meaning next-to-the-last, day of Reading Reality's 15th Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week. Today is also Reading Reality's official blogoversary, as the first post on what was then "Escape Reality, Read Fiction", was posted on April 4, 2011…

This particular Stacking the Shelves post has a lot of stuff stacked on its shelves today. Because today is not only my birthday, it's also the final day in this year's Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week, making this a hobbit birthday in that I give presents instead receiving them. As part of my birthday, I've also set up a Birthday Fundraiser on Facebook to Planned Pethood…

Today marks the start of Reading Reality's FOURTEENTH! Annual Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week. Which means that today starts an entire week of giveaways. YAY! I'll get more into the whole Hobbit Birthday thing of this week's celebration in tomorrow's post, which will include one of the big giveaways, but today is just a bit of a kickoff to start the festivities.

Today marks the start of Reading Reality's FIFTEENTH Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week. When I looked ahead this time last year, I realized that this year's celebration would be weird as both Reading Re...

Today is actually the actual 14th blogoversary for Reading Reality. Tomorrow is my birthday. Having the actual dates partially fall over the weekend has made things weird as far as posting the Celebration Week is concerned. (Next year will be crazier as both days are over a weekend. The celebration will be AFTER. Nevertheless, today is a day worth celebrating here at Chez Reading Reality as the whole thing began on April 4, 2011 and is still growing strong even though blogs are not nearly the big noise that they used to be.

My Review: This is the second book in Anna Hackett’s re-release of her Phoenix Adventures series, and I was reminded yet again of how much I loved this series back when it came out ten or so years ago...

This year's OMG Fourteenth Blogo-Birthday Week Celebration technically began with yesterday's Sunday Post. The actual, technical blogoversary is this Friday, April 4, with my own birthday the following day, April 5, which is when the final giveaway will be posted. Reading Reality began on April 4, 2011, under the name "Escape Reality, Read Fiction", which is also the reason the ratings are "Escape Ratings" and "Reality Ratings".

My Review: I lost count of the total number of locks in this story early on, but I’m absolutely certain there were considerably more than three such items, particularly as more than one escape artist festooned himself with several at a time. Including Sherlock Holmes. But the first lock in this story is certainly the most poignant, not because it’s a trick lock - although it absolutely is - but because the key to it is locked in Dr.