This was the first book I've listened to from K. J. Larsen. It was laugh out loud in some places and flowed well. I thought the characters were well filled out without going over board on them. I loved the name of her detective agency, 'Pants on Fire Detective Agency' we expose liars and cheats. It's clever she has her cell phone ring tone set to play Your Cheating Heart. I always like it when the protagonist has a dog or cat. Cat Deluca has a beagle named Inga that loves Italian sausages. Cat, says Inga is a food whore. Cat isn't any better as she is constantly eating cannoli and pizza. The story starts with Cat doing survaillance on Chance Saveno, Rita Saveno hired her to find out if her husband was cheating on her. Chance catches Cat spying on him. While Cat is distracted with a phone call, Chance is suddenly at her car. During the ensuing conversation Cat learns that Rita Saveno is not his wife and he gives Cat some money to hire her to find out why this woman wants Cat to spy on him. Chance, has a meeting with someone at across from where Cat is parked. Cat, does not want his money or business. He sprints across the street for his meeting, Cat leaps out of her car giving him chase to give him his money back. Before she reaches him an explosion in the building blows her back and she is knocked out from a flying For Lease sign. When she wakes up in the hospital she has a visit from Chance and no one believes her because everyone says Chance died in the blast. But Cat keeps seeing him and talking to him but no one believes her and thinks she's gone wacko from her concussion. Her mother a bossy, controlling woman insisting that she needs a psychiatrist, even has the priest see her and has an intervention. Poor Cat, she has to battle with everyone that she is not crazy or psychotic from the concussion and she has seen Chance. I don't like odd names for characters like Chance but since he is a dishy guy I'll forgive Larsen for picking such a lame name for a hot guy. Chance did not die and she is seeing him. She does unravel the mystery and the book is funny and fun. I don't want to add more about it because it might spoil the book for you.
6/24/11
Vanessa Hart, reading Liar, Liar by K. J. Larsen
The narrator Vanessa Hart is great, her voice suits Cat and she has a tremendous range of characterizations. She reads so well that I hope I find more books she narrates. Her inflections are right on, there are no lags between sentences. Her pace is good, not too fast and not slow. Her voice is mellow. Some narrators start to lag and drift when they are getting tired I did not detect this with Vanessa Hart. I really enjoyed listening to her. She really did expand the characters and the content of the book.
This was the first book I've listened to from K. J. Larsen. It was laugh out loud in some places and flowed well. I thought the characters were well filled out without going over board on them. I loved the name of her detective agency, 'Pants on Fire Detective Agency' we expose liars and cheats. It's clever she has her cell phone ring tone set to play Your Cheating Heart. I always like it when the protagonist has a dog or cat. Cat Deluca has a beagle named Inga that loves Italian sausages. Cat, says Inga is a food whore. Cat isn't any better as she is constantly eating cannoli and pizza. The story starts with Cat doing survaillance on Chance Saveno, Rita Saveno hired her to find out if her husband was cheating on her. Chance catches Cat spying on him. While Cat is distracted with a phone call, Chance is suddenly at her car. During the ensuing conversation Cat learns that Rita Saveno is not his wife and he gives Cat some money to hire her to find out why this woman wants Cat to spy on him. Chance, has a meeting with someone at across from where Cat is parked. Cat, does not want his money or business. He sprints across the street for his meeting, Cat leaps out of her car giving him chase to give him his money back. Before she reaches him an explosion in the building blows her back and she is knocked out from a flying For Lease sign. When she wakes up in the hospital she has a visit from Chance and no one believes her because everyone says Chance died in the blast. But Cat keeps seeing him and talking to him but no one believes her and thinks she's gone wacko from her concussion. Her mother a bossy, controlling woman insisting that she needs a psychiatrist, even has the priest see her and has an intervention. Poor Cat, she has to battle with everyone that she is not crazy or psychotic from the concussion and she has seen Chance. I don't like odd names for characters like Chance but since he is a dishy guy I'll forgive Larsen for picking such a lame name for a hot guy. Chance did not die and she is seeing him. She does unravel the mystery and the book is funny and fun. I don't want to add more about it because it might spoil the book for you.
This was the first book I've listened to from K. J. Larsen. It was laugh out loud in some places and flowed well. I thought the characters were well filled out without going over board on them. I loved the name of her detective agency, 'Pants on Fire Detective Agency' we expose liars and cheats. It's clever she has her cell phone ring tone set to play Your Cheating Heart. I always like it when the protagonist has a dog or cat. Cat Deluca has a beagle named Inga that loves Italian sausages. Cat, says Inga is a food whore. Cat isn't any better as she is constantly eating cannoli and pizza. The story starts with Cat doing survaillance on Chance Saveno, Rita Saveno hired her to find out if her husband was cheating on her. Chance catches Cat spying on him. While Cat is distracted with a phone call, Chance is suddenly at her car. During the ensuing conversation Cat learns that Rita Saveno is not his wife and he gives Cat some money to hire her to find out why this woman wants Cat to spy on him. Chance, has a meeting with someone at across from where Cat is parked. Cat, does not want his money or business. He sprints across the street for his meeting, Cat leaps out of her car giving him chase to give him his money back. Before she reaches him an explosion in the building blows her back and she is knocked out from a flying For Lease sign. When she wakes up in the hospital she has a visit from Chance and no one believes her because everyone says Chance died in the blast. But Cat keeps seeing him and talking to him but no one believes her and thinks she's gone wacko from her concussion. Her mother a bossy, controlling woman insisting that she needs a psychiatrist, even has the priest see her and has an intervention. Poor Cat, she has to battle with everyone that she is not crazy or psychotic from the concussion and she has seen Chance. I don't like odd names for characters like Chance but since he is a dishy guy I'll forgive Larsen for picking such a lame name for a hot guy. Chance did not die and she is seeing him. She does unravel the mystery and the book is funny and fun. I don't want to add more about it because it might spoil the book for you.
6/20/11
Epub, Document Viewers, Nook, Sony Reader
EPUB is for reading text on an EReader like Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, or any other brand EReader. FireFox has a downloadable add on to the browser that will allow you to read an Epub file within FireFox. You can read more and get it here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/epubreader/
There are many readers available and which one you like is a personal preference and your budget. Most are proprietorial so if you buy Kindle, it will mainly download books or files you purchase from Amazon. I saw that Kindle is making itself available to libraries and is going to launch soon.
I am not that knowledgeable about Ereaders as I'm mainly interested in Audio Books. You can find some information here http://tinyurl.com/3styg89 or check out http://www.jedisaber.com/ebooks/Readers.asp for more detailed information.
I wanted to purchase Rebecca Woodhead's newly released Ebook from Amazon, Palaces & Calluses. Amazon provides a small downloadable program that is similar to Adobe Reader. There was much about Kindle on the website so I had to look around for the alternate reader. I did not find it that easy, so I called the 800 number provided and the tech emailed the program to me. From there is was very simple. Just clicked on the link he provided, clicked download and then went on to make my book purchase. Barnes & Noble is about the same a little tricky locating the downloadable reader if you don't own a Nook. The process was a bit harder and I had to call the tech # which was provided over the phone from my local B&N. The gal that answered the phone did not know why I was getting strange error messages. The tech didn't either although he could see on his end my purchase order and my information for joining. Alas, I never did get it, so will try again later.
If you don't own an Ereader then it's best you do a lot of research and read reviews about them before making your decision.
Most libraries have Overdrive, NetLibrary, and Mobi, MP3 and so forth, books that are downloadable and readable on your device. I am recommending http://www.jedisaber.com/ebooks/Readers.asp for more detailed information on Readers. CNet has some good discussion on Sony Vs. Kindle which e-reader should I buy at http://tinyurl.com/42xuytc. I used Tinyurl to shorten the long links.
A viewer emailed me that she was able to download my site to her Sony Reader this way, "I saved some of your blog as a file on the computer. Then I converted it using Calibre and put it on my Sony E-reader. So I can catch up on it as I have the time at lunch at work or whenever. It converted really well to my ereader. I used your blog photo as the book cover. To be more detailed what I did was saved the page as html. I wanted the photos. I assume I could just do it in text too. Anyway, then I opened Calibre. I located the file and added it to the Calibre library. Then I converted it to an epub file. Then I just had it send it, to my Sony ereader. Thanks, from Pat"
Calibre, is the very popular and easy to use program to handle your text and e-book files. You can get it here http://calibre-ebook.com/
Feel free to do a Guest Posting here if you have any tips to add.
Free Ebooks
http://www.free-ebooks.net/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.manybooks.net/
http://tinyurl.com/3lwvv3
A simple google search for free e-books or audiobooks will bring up tons of excellent sites as well as the one's I listed.