Devyn Quinn Picks Her Desert Island Keepers!

Welcome back to our third day of fun and sun at DIK Devyn!

I have to say, that was an awesome luau last night and I noticed a couple of mermaids swam up on shore and joined in after they found.. um some clothing!! lol

So, without further adieu I’m turning the mic over to Devyn, who is going to talk about her 5 favorite DIK books she has brought along to the island.

DQ: Here’s what I’ve got for my 5 selections:

Marilyn by Normal Mailer

One of the best early biographies on Marilyn Monroe and bursting with awesome photographs.

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The original story of the Phantom and Christine.

The Phantom of the Opera belongs to the category of Literature, which combines equals parts of horror and romance. Set in the Paris Grand Opera house, which exists to this day, it is a most unusual plot and quite unique from that of any other story. The author Gastonia Leroy has made optimum use of his in-depth knowledge of the Opera house in Paris and has concocted a truly fascinating tale, which is both horrific and pathetic at the same time. The Opera House at Paris is a true marvel of art constructed in the 17th. Century. It has seven stories and has more than two thousand rooms in addition to innumerable secret cellars, passages and even an underground lake. Leroux uses his intimate knowledge of the Opera house exquisitely to create an atmosphere of mystery, horror and romance and has the reader guessing for the greater part of the story as to who or what the Opera Ghost actually is.

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Demonfire by Kate Douglas

The fantastic first book of a hot new series featuring demons

Since time began, the Earth has served as a balance between the world of darkness that is the Abyss, and the paradise known as Eden. Now the battle between good and evil has reached a tipping point, and survival depends on one fallen demon-- and the woman he can't resist...

Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

Simply awesome example of King at his finest.

Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

A heartfelt and touching book.

"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting cliches about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty and frequent death and illness and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings for a compelling memoir.


Question for readers: What 5 books would you bring to the Island?

Thanks Devyn! Wonderful choices…

A big thank you to Devyn for spending the past 3 days here on the island and for her generous giveaway! Siren's Call, the first book in the Dark Tides trilogy is now available and please visit Devyn's website for more information!

Contest Is Now Closed

Devyn Quinn lives in the scenic Southwest, though she has called several other states home. She is a huge fan of dark gothic music & shoot-’em-up action movies. But reading is her first love and Devyn spends too much time with history books, as well as feeding her addiction for celebrity biographies. She especially enjoys reading books on Hollywood before the 1960′s and is crazy about Marilyn Monroe, her legend and her myth.

Devyn lives with her cats, ferrets, and one little single Shih Tzu doggie, Tess.