Recent Read: Alien Collective

Alien Collective by Gini Koch is the 9th in Koch's Alien series. Jeff and Kitty are still dealing with the wilds of DC politics. More anti-alien enemies are rearing their ugly heads and, to make matters even worse, Jeff has been asked to run for Vice-President. Chaos continues to reign as mysterious forces help and hinder their efforts to make it safely to the White House.

Just so you know, this series is one of my must buys. They are always fast paced and hard to put down. Kitty is a kick-ass heroine with a soft-spot for underdogs and an ever increasing circle of friends (9 books worth). There are a lot of characters and back story to keep up with so I would definitely recommend starting with book one.

Series reading order:

And you can buy your own poof at Gini's Web Site!

1. Touched by an Alien
2. Alien Tango
3. Alien in the Family
4. Alien Proliferation
5. Alien Diplomacy
6. Alien vs. Alien
7. Alien in the House
8. Alien Research
9. Alien Collective (2014)

book reviews coming

I may be starting a new addition to this blog. Book reviews! I discovered a new web site/service at ALA that I'm going to try out called netgalley.com I think I need to do book reviews and stuff to get more galleys so ...

In a way, I'm glad to do it here and not on goodreads or amazon where you know the authors are on their reading reviews.

I'm still in Las Vegas for ALA. Time to head downstairs for free happy hour.

another sporadic post

I've been working on the Block of the Month for Devine Quilters today. Apparently I'm on a modern quilt block kick this year.

I based my block on a quilt block in this book:

Tula Pink's City Sampler Quilts: 100 modern quilt blocks / by Tula Pink. If you click on the title it will take you to Amazon.

All the blocks in this book finish at 6.5 inches (.5 = seam allowance), but I promised everyone in the guild to stick to 12.5 inch blocks this year. Time to get out the graph paper! I made both to show folks at guild.

So here's a picture of the two blocks together:

Not to bad. The OCD part of me wants another row with the light print to close in the white. but I'll refrain *grin*

Note - yes I will be a good librarian and give credit to this book for being the basis of my pattern.