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:

Patty Griffin
Children Running Through

Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu

Eddie Vedder
Into the Wild


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

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

Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson #3: Iron Kissed

Emma Bull
Territory

MaryJanice Davidson
Derik's Bane

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

Doranna Durgin
Feral Darkness

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

Justin Gustainis
Black Magic Woman

Shannon Hale
Princess Academy

Laurell K. Hamilton
Obsidian Butterfly

Charlaine Harris
Southern Vampire #8: From Dead to Worse

Mark Henry
Happy Hour of the Damned

Caitlin R. Kiernan
Threshold

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

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

Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy

Wen Spencer
Tinker

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

Carrie Vaughn
Kitty Norville #2: Kitty Goes to Washington
Kitty Norville #3: Kitty Takes a Holiday


Dancing at Lughnasa

Darjeeling Limited

Enchanted

The Golden Compass

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Neverwas

The Other Boleyn Girl

Something the Lord Made

The Visitor

The Wind that Shakes the Barley