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PRANKSTERS – Kembrew McLeod
Pranks? What is a ‘prank’ as performed by a ‘prankster’? Pulling ‘one’ over on someone? Author Kembrew McLeod seems to look on it as a practical joke that has political and/or social change connotations. ‘Pranking’ is popular today as we have television shows all about pranks and tv talk show hosts ‘prank’ one another all… Continue reading
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MADE TO KILL – Adam Christopher
How do you take a classic noir mystery theme and make it fresh? Make the noir detective/assassin a robot, of course! Adam Christopher’s sci-fi/noir/humor book, Made to Kill, is just plain a lot of fun to read. In so many ways it reminded me of a lot of the Ron Goulart books I read in… Continue reading
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MYSTERIES OF MOTION – Hortense Calisher
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I will admit that I often don’t pay a lot of attention to where a book was published while I’m reading it. It is early, when I request it, that I know where it has come from, and then again when I’m reviewing my notes for my review that I… Continue reading
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DUST BOWL GIRLS – Lydia Reeder
Dust Bowl Girls, by Lydia Reeder, is one of the most exciting, informative, and thoroughly engaging non-fiction books I’ve read this year. This is a book that must be optioned for film — it has all the ingredients for a truly spellbinding movie. Think Hoosiers, A League of Their Own, or The Blind Side. Author… Continue reading
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THOR: DUELING WITH GIANTS – Keith R.A. DeCandido
I think that this book is aimed at teen readers … but I’m not quite sure. There’s a fair amount of the book that follows youthful Thor, Loki, and Sif. But it’s also dense with prose story-telling. It’s a pretty simple plot: Thor is in a battle with some trolls trying to invade Asgard when his… Continue reading
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GRUNT TRAITOR – Weston Ochse
I didn’t realize that Grunt Traitor, by Weston Ochse, was a follow-up to another novel (or book two in a series), and I expect that there’s a lot of information in the first book that would be good to have, but I don’t think it’s crucial to read and enjoy (‘enjoy’ isn’t maybe the right… Continue reading
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JAMES BOND VOL. 1: VARGR – graphic novel
There are James Bond books and there are James Bond movies … what took so long to come out with James Bond graphic novels? Though maybe the better question is: Do we need James Bond graphic novels too? We start the book with Bond finishing up a revenge mission, definitely setting up the tone that… Continue reading
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WHAT NORA KNEW – Linda Yellin
When a writer for an on-line magazine is given the assignment to write about love, the way Nora Ephron might, the very un-romantic Molly Hallberg struggles to define something that is quite foreign to her. She is living with very comfortable chiropractor. It’s not love. It’s not passion. It’s comfort and convenience. And when she… Continue reading
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INFOMACRACY – Malka Older
It’s tough to write a powerful science fiction piece that is politically themed, and keep it interesting (to me, at least), but author Malka Older accomplishes just that in this political sci-fi thriller, Infomocracy. For political purposes, the world is divided into “centenals” of about 100,000 people. Each centenal votes for its own government. There… Continue reading
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DEMON VOL. 1 – graphic novel
**WARNING – POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD** What a strange, yet satisfying, graphic novel this is! I’m going to talk about the artwork first. It took me a page, maybe two, to get into the art. As you can see by the picture above, this is not uber-realistic character drawing. This is much more in line with… Continue reading
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WILDLIFE – Fiona Wood
According to the Goodreads page for this book, this is the second book in a series, but the good news is that as far as this reader is concerned, there is nothing ‘missing’ or nothing to suggest that one really needs to read another book prior to reading this. The author, Fiona Wood, is Australian.… Continue reading
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