September 2016
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MONSTRESS #3 & #4 – comic book
Issue #3 of this outstanding comic, Monstress, brings back the excitement (and evil) that made the first issue so thrilling. We get more questions than answers, but they are the questions the reader has likely started to ask – who is Maika? Where did she come from? Can she control her own abilities? Why does Continue reading
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ZEROVILLE – Steve Erickson
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I am typically not a fan of books that experiment with form. I usually find it to be self-indulgent it and often refer to it as literary masturbation – pleasing the author but no one else. Zeroville, by Steve Erickson is one of the rare exceptions. Zeroville is a bizarre Continue reading
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THE DARKNESS OF SHADOWS – Chris Little
Natalie plans to kill her father before he can do more harm to the family that has taken her in and nurtured her. Along the way, she learns she has magical powers that had been kept secret from her. Her father just wants Natalie to finish a ritual, but the supernatural community isn’t too excited about Continue reading
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LIVE TO AIR – Jeffrey L. Diamond
Former television writer/producer Jeffrey L. Diamond has taken his experience working in television and brought it to the page in this mystery/thriller, Live to Air. Ethan Benson is a television producer working for a magazine-format show in New York. Ethan doesn’t like doing crime stories, but sometimes, even as a producer, you have to answer Continue reading
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BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE – Robert Bailey
I’m really delighted that author Robert Bailey found a new publisher for his McMurtrie & Drake series after Exhibit A Books shut down. But I’m not surprised that someone else picked this series up – Bailey writes just about the best legal thrillers being published today. Tom McMurtrie is a retired law professor. A former Continue reading
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RED RISING – Pierce Brown
One of the problems with doing book reviews as much and as often as I do, is that I often have to pick and choose which of the plethora of books I will read next. And even with five books a week, I can’t get to them all. Not reading Pierce Brown’s Red Rising until Continue reading
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CROWDED IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE – Dr. Bo Brock
It definitely takes a special sort of person to go in to the business of helping and caring for animals. Maintaining a sense of humor definitely helps as animals can often be even more unpredictable than humans as patients. Veterinarian Dr. Bo Brock not only maintains his sense of humor, but shares it through a Continue reading
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MONSTRESS #1 & #2 – comic book
This first issue of Monstress from Image Comics has everything I love about the ‘indy’ comics companies (if Image can still be considered ‘indy’). Absolutely stunning art and a story that is dark, dangerous, and so sooo compelling. Humans, mutants, and monsters live together in a world where the humans have enslaved the mutants and Continue reading
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THE BLACKHOUSE – Peter May
Fin Macleod was raised on the Isle of Lewis and is now being sent back to investigate a harsh murder that bears a remarkable similarity to a murder that occurred in Edinburgh. Fin is trying to determine if there is a connection. But returning to the island brings back memories and recollections from the locals Continue reading
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URBAN WATERCOLOR SKETCHING – Felix Scheinberger
I’ve read a number of art how-to books over the years and consider myself a talented amateur (I began my university studies as an art student) and I can say, unequivocally, that this is one of the best how-to books I’ve ever had the pleasure to read. Author/artist Felix Scheinberger writes in a very natural, Continue reading
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THE JOLLY CORONER – Quentin Canterel
This was certainly one of the most interesting books I’ve read in quite some time. I’m not sure how one would define this. Quirky romance? Bizarre-o horror? Oddball thriller? I also don’t think I’ve ever gone through as much of a pendulum swing in liking/disliking a book, while reading it, as I did with this. Continue reading
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