Thanks to Dr. Seuss, Becky Kyle is a voracious reader. If left strictly to Dick & Jane, she'd probably still be in the second grade. And if anyone deserves thanks for her reviewing, she wishes she could remember the recruiter at the UCO Library School who suggested she write a review of every book she read as both a mnemonic and a reference tool.

She has always loved music. The first records she can remember playing are the gorgeous colored kids' vinyl records with songs like "Rockin' Robin" (the old version) and stories like "The Little Match Girl."

She moved on to cassettes and then CDs. She had a brief affection for mp3, but really dislikes the compression rate -- it seems the only thing mp3 does well is loud. So she is back to CDs and seeing if she can figure a place to put all those pretty shiny discs so she can access them.

She lives in Knoxville, TN, with her spouse of 26 years and four cats, the oldest of which is 19. She was born on Friday 13 and, yes, one of her cats is black!

Other interests include doll collecting, creative writing, traveling....

Reviews by Becky include:

MUSIC

Jody Adams
Voices of Home

Tori Amos
Midwinter Graces

Atsiaktonkie
Four Wolves Prophecy

Balval
Le Ciel Tout Nu

Bowfire
Live in Concert

Moya Brennan
Signature

Moira Cameron
Sands of the Shore: Be Tricked or Betrayed

Cubanismo
Greetings from Havana

Annie Dinerman
Broken Cookies

Enter the Haggis
Gutter Anthems

Evangenitals
Evangenitals

Andrew Eversole
Creature

Fairport Convention
Over the Next Hill

Jessica Gall
Little Big Soul

Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets
A Ride to the Other Side

Drew Gibson
Letterbox

Patty Griffin
Children Running Through

Hannah's Field
Warriors of Love

Hecate's Wheel
Hecate's Wheel

Highland Way
Caledonia to California

Ingram Hill
Cold in California

Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu

John Mayer
Battle Studies

Randy McAllister
Dope Slap Soup

The Moon & the Nightspirit
Osforras

The Refugees
Unbound

Return to the Dream
Return to the Dream

Sting
If on a Winter's Night

Saffron Summerfield
The Early Years

Kim Taylor
The Greatest Story

Richard Thompson
Sweet Warrior

various artists
A Family Christmas
Jazz Around the World
Yoga

Eddie Vedder
Into the Wild

Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator)

Whisky Trail
San Frediano


BOOKS

Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Ilona Andrews
Magic Burns

Kelley Armstrong
Women of the Otherworld #3: Dime Store Magic
Women of the Otherworld #4: Industrial Magic
Women of the Otherworld #8: Personal Demon

Elizabeth Bear
Blood & Iron

Lyn Benedict
Sins & Shadows

Holly Black
Ironside

Jenna Black
Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist #1: The Devil Inside

Megan Bostic
Never Eighteen

Karla Brady
The Soul of the Band

Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson #3: Iron Kissed

Patricia Briggs, Eileen Wilks, Karen Chance, Sunny
On the Prowl

Terry Brooks
Genesis of Shannara #3: The Gypsy Morph
The Word & the Void #1: Running with the Demon
The Word & the Void #2: A Knight of the Word
The Word & the Void #3: Angel Fire East

Meghan Brunner
From the Ashes

Emma Bull
Territory

Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files #9: White Night
The Dresden Files #10: Small Favor
The Dresden Files #11: Turn Coat
The Dresden Files #12: Changes
The Dresden Files #13: Ghost Story
The Dresden Files: Backup
Side Jobs

Rachel Caine
The Morganville Vampires #3: Midnight Alley
The Morganville Vampires #9: Ghost Town
Weather Warden #6: Thin Air

Orson Scott Card
Magic Street
Stonefather

Charles Cassady
Paranormal Mississippi River

John Crowley
Conversation Hearts

Shirley Damsgaard
Ophelia & Abby #2: Charmed to Death
Ophelia & Abby #3: The Trouble with Witches
Ophelia & Abby #4: Witch Hunt

Cherish D'Angelo
Lancelot's Lady

MaryJanice Davidson
Derik's Bane

Melissa de la Cruz
Blue Bloods #4: The Van Allen Legacy

Mark Del Franco
Connor Grey #1: Unshapely Things

Philip K. Dick
Nick & the Glimmung

Carole Nelson Douglas
Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator #1: Dancing with Werewolves

Diane Duane
Stealing the Elf-King's Roses

Doranna Durgin
Feral Darkness

Erica Eisdorfer
The Wet Nurse's Tale

Alan Dean Foster
Star Trek

Yasmine Galenorn
Sisters of the Moon #1: Witchling
Sisters of the Moon #2: Changeling

Jeffrey Getzin
The Bryanae #1: Prince of Bryanae

Christopher Golden
Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier & the Vampire, with Mike Mignola

Simon R. Green
Nightside #4: Hex & the City
Nightside #5: Paths Not Taken
Nightside #6: Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Nightside #7: Hell to Pay
Nightside #8: The Unnatural Inquirer

Sara Gruen
Ape House

Talia Gryphon
Gillian Key, ParaDoc #1: Key to Conflict

Justin Gustainis
Black Magic Woman

Ann Halam
Snakehead

Shannon Hale
Princess Academy

Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
Obsidian Butterfly

Charlaine Harris
Harper Connelly Mysteries #2: Grave Surprise
Harper Connelly Mysteries #3: An Ice Cold Grave
Lily Bard #5: Shakespeare's Counselor
Southern Vampire #8: From Dead to Worse
Sweet & Deadly

Kim Harrison
Rachel Morgan #4: A Fistful of Charms
Rachel Morgan #5: For a Few Demons More

Sheila Hendrix
Bad Company

Bruce Hennigan
Jonathan Steel Chronicles #2: The 12th Demon: Vampyre Majick

Mark Henry
Happy Hour of the Damned

James A. Hetley
Stonefort #1: Dragon's Eye
Stonefort #2: Dragon's Teeth

Nancy Holzner
Bloodstone
Deadtown

Tanya Huff
Smoke #1: Smoke & Shadows
Smoke #2: Smoke & Mirrors
Smoke #3: Smoke & Ashes

Faith Hunter
Rogue Mage #1: Bloodring

Nigel James
Lessons from the Road

James David Jordan
Double Cross

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark Hunter #7: Seize the Night

Caitlin R. Kiernan
Threshold

Daniel Kraus
The Monster Variations

William Kent Krueger
Heaven's Keep: A Cork O'Connor Mystery

Tim Lebbon
The Last Storm

Mark Levy
Accidental Genius

Maria Lima
Blood Lines #1: Matters of the Blood

Holly Lisle
Last Girl Dancing
Moon & Sun #1: The Ruby Key
Night Echoes
Sympathy for the Devil

Valya Dudycz Lupescu
The Silence of Trees

Katie MacAlister
Aisling Grey, Guardian #1: You Slay Me
Aisling Grey, Guardian #2: Fire Me Up

Karen Macinerney
Tales of an Urban Werewolf #1: Howling at the Moon

Gregory Maguire
Wicked Years #2: Son of a Witch

Tom Maremaa
Metal Heads

Melissa Marr
Wicked Lovely

A. Lee Martinez
Gil's All Fright Diner

Carole McDonnell
Wind Follower

Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy

J.L. Miles
Divorcing Dwayne

Kate Milford
The Boneshaker

C.E. Murphy
The Walker Papers #1: Urban Shaman
The Walker Papers #3: Coyote Dreams

Glen E. Page
Apocalypse #1: The Last Plague

Janet Paisley
White Rose Rebel

Vicki Pettersson
Sign of the Zodiac #1: Scent of Shadows
Sign of the Zodiac #2: Taste of Night
Sign of the Zodiac #3: Touch of Twilight

Steffan Piper
Greyhound

Georgia Post
Arsenic Soup for Lovers: When Chicken Soup Doesn't Work

Laura Resnick
Disappearing Nightly

Kat Richardson
Greywalker #2: Poltergeist
Greywalker #6: Downpour

Lane Robins
Sins & Shadows (as Lyn Benedict)

Cameron Rogers
The Music of Razors

Elizabeth Irvin Ross
How to Write While You Sleep

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Channeling Cleopatra

Patrick Shannon
Letters from Wheatfield

Will Shetterly
The Gospel of the Knife

Cindy Silbert
Chameleon Butterfly Dragonfly

Dean Wesley Smith
All Eve's Hallows

Jeri Smith-Ready
Wicked Game

Kerrelyn Sparks
Love at Stake #1: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

Wen Spencer
Tinker

Jeanne C. Stein
The Anna Strong Chronicles #1: The Becoming
The Anna Strong Chronicles #3: The Watcher

Kathryn Stockett
The Help

Rob Thurman
Cal Leandros #2: Moonshine

Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville #2: Kitty Goes to Washington
Kitty Norville #3: Kitty Takes a Holiday
Kitty Norville #4: Kitty & the Silver Bullet

Lynn Viehl
If Angels Burn

Rachel Vincent
Shifters #1: Stray

Mary Ann Winkowski & Maureen Foley
The Book of Illumination

Shelly Wu
The Definitive Book of Chinese Astrology


GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle

Star Trek: Countdown


MOVIES

Addams Family 2

Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

The Angel's Share

Arthur Christmas

Avatar

Away from Her

Blithe Spirit

Capitalism: A Love Story

A Christmas Carol

Coyote Waits

The Croods: A New Age

Dancing at Lughnasa

Darjeeling Limited

Death at a Funeral (2007)

Death at a Funeral (2010)

Doe Boy

The Dog Who Saved Halloween

Dreamkeeper

Enchanted

Fair Game

Fisherman's Friends

Forbidden Kingdom

Frankenweenie

The Golden Compass

Hidden Figures

Hocus Pocus 2

Hostiles

Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story

The Invention of Lying

Invictus

It's Complicated

Julie & Julia

The Last of His Tribe

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

The Muppets

Neverwas

No Time to Die

The Other Boleyn Girl

Powwow Highway

Queen Bees

Renegades

Sherlock Holmes

Sioux City

Skins

Smoke Signals

Solitary

Something the Lord Made

Spirit Rider

Summerland

A Thief of Time

Thunderheart

Up

Up in the Air

The Visitor

Whip It

Wild Mountain Thyme

Windtalkers

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Zombieland


Mercedes Lackey: obeying the rules