July 2022
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The Gwendy Books – Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
GWENDY’S BUTTON BOX Twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson lives in Castle Rock, Maine. Like many girls her age, she has confidence issues and concerns of her weight and fitting in with other students her age. She will be going to middle school at the end of summer and she does not want her nickname – Goodyear – Continue reading
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EXPERIMENTAL FILM – Gemma Files
Lois Cairns is … was … a film history professor. She is currently out of a job and now in a deep depression after her son was diagnosed with autism. She retreats to where she is comfortable – film history – where she discovers the previous lost to the public, early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Continue reading
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BAD RIVER – Ralph Cotton
Ranger Sam Burrack is on his way south in search of a notorious gang of bandits. He’s gotten a tip from Escalante – a prisoner in the Yuma Penitentiary – that the Cowboy Gang are holing up along Bad River. The mayor of the nearby village is as corrupt as the gang and if the Continue reading
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THE STAR TREK COOKBOOK – Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
I was going to start this review with the comment that we’ve finally seen it all … we’ve now got a Star Trek cookbook. But as I went to snag the cover image to post on my blog, I learned that we didn’t finally get a Star Trek cookbook … there have been a few of them over the Continue reading
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SCRAPPED: JUSTICE AND A TEEN INFORMANT – Lisa Peebles & John O’Brien
WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW Warning, reading this book is likely to raise your hackles and ignite your ire. In 1994, convenience store clerk, 18 year old Heidi Allen, was kidnapped from the store (she was working alone at the time). Her body has never been found. When local man Gary Thibodeau heard about Continue reading
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HEARTACHE MOTEL – Terri L. Austin, Larissa Reinhart, LynDee Walker
Take one fleabag motel and have three cozy mystery authors bring their regular characters into that motel and you get three novellas loosely tied together. In “Diners Keepers, Losers Weepers” by Terri L. Austin, it is just before Christmas and Rose Strickland and friends are planning a visit to Graceland. Their planned accommodations fall through and Continue reading
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SPOIL THE KILL – Oisin McGann
It is getting harder and harder to run an illegal empire what with cameras and drones everywhere. But Move-Easy – one of London’s most notorious criminals – sends ‘rat runners’ (youngsters who move about ‘the Void’ to evade detection) to do his work. Now he has sent Scope, a teenage girl who spends most of Continue reading
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THE OFFSET – Calder Szewczak
When the entire world is bursting at the seems and not able to handle the stress, what is the answer? In The Offset, by Calder Szewczak, a special ceremony has been initiated…. When a child turns 18, if both parents are still alive, the child must choose one their parents to die in a special ceremony Continue reading
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THE CABINET – Kim Un-su
Mr. Kong is a dedicated and concerned office worker whose job is to watch over the special Cabinet 13. Cabinet 13 looks like any other ordinary office cabinet full of folders stuffed with papers, but Cabinet 13 may contain some of the most precious information for the future of mankind. Cabinet 13 contains the stories Continue reading
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PRELUDE – C.A. Oliver
Uhhhhhh… Huh? From the Goodreads description of the novel: This story precedes that of An Act of Faith [book #1 in the series] by focusing on events which occurred in the Valley, 1,700 years before. The Valley hosts the shrine of all the Lost Islands’ faiths and the cities of four Elvin peoples. It is Continue reading
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ART ESSAYS – Alexandra Kinston-Reese, editor
“The art essay is at once not about the art and all about the art – the glance at the piece of art evolves into a meditation on something else entirely” writes editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese in her introduction to the collection Art Essays. This makes this volume a collection of essays very loosely themed around art. Continue reading
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