Lark Writes...on books and life

  "Sometimes a great adventure lands in your lap." "...everything that happens, good or bad, is a story. And life is just a s...

  "Hiking long trails isn't about ticking off boxes or meeting some arbitrary standard; it's about the journey, the moments tha...

  Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs is the first book about Charles and Anna Cornick, alpha and omega werewolves. It's also the book that intr...

  From the blurb:  " You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And ...

  From the blurb:  "It's bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard's workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no ...

  First line:  " An estate sale at a dead guy's suburban mansion was not how I'd planned to spend my first Saturday of summer b...

 " Adventure awaits." Emily Edwards is not adventurous or outdoorsy, but she's made a promise to scatter her dad's ashes o...

  The plot:  October, 1893. Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer, Sherlock Holmes-loving cowboy detective, and his younger brother, Otto ...

  First line:  We climbed the deadliest section of Everest at night. From the blurb:  "On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mou...

  The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter "Here's the thing about waking up with no memory in the middle of the night, in the middle of ...

  About the author:   "Derick Lugo had never hiked or camped a day in his life. This Brooklyn-born, New York city urbanite hopped a tra...

  "I would attempt to hike the 2,189-mile-long Appalachian Trail faster than anyone else had. I would do it alone and not to prove anyt...

  The plot in brief:   Evan Portin's life is not going very well. His wife died two weeks ago and his boss just fired him. Then, walking...

  Blind Descent by Nevada Barr Warning: Must love reading about caves and caving. To help rescue a friend, Anna Pigeon must descend into the...

  The plot in brief:  The Shuar tribe in Ecuador are the purported guardians of an ancient treasure. Among the rumored artifacts hidden away...

  shennong-shi:  masters of the ancient and magical art of tea-making. "The true wielders of shennong magic have their unique specialti...

  Flamebringer by Elle Katharine White This is the third book in White's Heartstone trilogy, and I almost didn't read it. Not becaus...

  "Natsuki Books was a tiny secondhand bookshop on the edge of town. The shop didn't lose enough money to be considered a liability...

"In life, there were two kinds of friends: friends who would wish you well on  your journey to battle, and friends who would jump in th...

  The Plot:   Darby Graham is a forensic linguist. Or was. Lately she's been struggling with PTSD from a case that cost her almost every...