Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Where the Hell is Matt?: Dancing Badly Around the World by Matt Harding

Released: June 2009

One of the most entertaining and fun travel books I've ever read, Where the Hell is Matt is not a memoir to pass up!

Several years ago, Matt Harding was a software designer in Los Angeles when he realized he didn't want to waste away sitting in an office day after day working on projects he hated. After quitting his job, he decided to take a break from corporate America and travel to various destinations across the globe. With what started as a silly whim, he began having people videotape him at each locale while dancing his now-popular, nearly trademark dance screaming of white-boy syndrome (which is actually shown as cool flip-art in the book).

Sunday, May 29, 2011

5 Creepy Horror Novels You Can't Miss

To me, horror novels are much like horror movies; it's very rare that I come across a book or film that genuinely scares me to death and sticks in my mind. Below are the best horror novels I've read to date that scare me to the bone when I read them and still give me nightmares years later.

If you know of any horror novels that have scared you just as badly, please please PLEASE let me know in the comments below! I would love to branch out and discover more time-worthy horror novels to scare my pants off!

Damaged by Alex Kava

Released: July 2010

Damaged is the eighth book in bestselling Alex Kava's series featuring FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell.

One of the shortest novels by Kava to date, Damaged opens off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, where a water-rescue team is retrieving a mysterious cooler found to be filled with random body parts wrapped in cellophane. Maggie O'Dell is called to the scene to investigate despite a powerful hurricane approaching the Gulf coast faster by the hour. Investigating his own isolated case just a short distance away, Maggie's boyfriend Benjamin Platt is looking into a potential deadly virus that is wiping out a large number of soldiers home from Iraq. Could the two cases be related?

Friday, May 27, 2011

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Released: 2008

For months now, I've read about The Hunger Games everywhere; on Twitter feeds, on book blogs, on Facebook, and even the news. In addition to reading about everybody's obsession about this novel, the upcoming movie had driven me to finally read it and needless to say, I was blown away. I am FINALLY able to understand the commotion; The Hunger Games is simply amazing!