2 Stars – Page 11 – Looking For a Good Book

June 29, 2018

THE SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS – Anne Corlett

What would a YA book look like if instead of being written for angst-ridden teen girls it was targeted for adults who wish they were angst-ridden teen girls? It would look a lot like The Space Between the Stars by Anne Corlett. Jamie Allenby wants some alone time and to achieve this end, she leaves… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

May 21, 2018

MYTH OF THE MAKER – Bruce R. Cordell

Carter Morrison is a software developer/programmer and he and his associates have built a fully immersive Virtual Reality world that should take the gaming world by storm. But something goes awry at Carter kills his friends in order to save mankind. Well…maybe. When Katherine Manners finds a man in the computer server room who looked… Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

May 11, 2018

PIERCE BROWN’S RED RISING: SONS OF ARES – graphic novel

I’m a little bit behind on my Red Rising series reading (though I’m currently working on correcting that) and I’d hoped that this might help me out and round out a few things for me. And it does. In many ways this is a prequel to the series as it lays out the story of… Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Graphic Novels, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

May 2, 2018

A CLOCKWORK HEART – Liesel Schwarz

This is a second book in a series and I have not read the first (or any other) book in this series. And I’m not likely to do so. Elle Chance is married to former warlock Hugh Marsh and Elle spends her days completely focused on being the Oracle – who alone manages to keep… Continue reading

ROMANCE, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, Romance, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

April 27, 2018

THE SEX TOURIST – Olivia Wild

Lilian Biro is an ambitious young Hungarian woman with dreams of a storybook life, and when she meets a kind, handsome British man she hopes she’s on the right path. Finally. Lilian meets the man of her dreams when his friends pay for her to perform a lap-dance at the local strip club where she… Continue reading

MYSTERY, ROMANCE, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Erotica, Mystery, Reviews, Romance, Sex

April 16, 2018

THE PROMETHEUS MAN – Scott Readon

CIA agent Tom Blake hustles in on the French police when a pile of bodies are discovered in Paris. Blake has a lot of inside knowledge and works swiftly and deliberately, impressing the French. But there is just one problem. CIA Agent Blake is actually on assignment in Africa and the man in Paris using… Continue reading

MYSTERY, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mystery, Reviews, Thriller

April 11, 2018

LEAR – Harold Bloom

Anyone who’s read much Shakespeare apologia has certainly encountered the works of Harold Bloom. Lear: The Great Image of Authority is the third book in Bloom’s “Shakespeare’s Personalities” series. I had quite enjoyed the second volume on Cleopatra and looked forward to this volume. Unfortunately this one did not work quite so well for me.… Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Entertainment, non-fiction, Plays, Reviews, Theatre

March 28, 2018

THE SPEED CHRONICLES – Joseph Mattson, editor

I truly didn’t know what I was getting into when I requested this book. I wasn’t aware that there was a series of drug-related short fiction books. (Yes, I am naive enough to think that this might have been about things that move quickly!) WHat attracted me to the book, though, were some of the… Continue reading

SHORT FICTION, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Reviews, Short Stories

March 21, 2018

STILL HERE – Lara Vapnyar

In Lara Vapnyar’s novel, Still Here, four immigrant friends are living in New York and discuss their lives, their dreams, their successes, and their failures. One friend, Sergey, develops a phone app called “Virtual Grave” in which a person’s online presence is preserved after the person has died so that friends and family can call… Continue reading

OTHER

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Reviews

March 14, 2018

THEATRICS – graphic novel

I haven’t read many graphic novels for a while now but when I saw this one, with an obvious theatre connection, and set in the Roaring 1920’s (an era I enjoy reading about) I thought that this just might be the right book for me. Rudy Burns is living the high life. He’s a sought-after… Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, GRAPHIC NOVEL, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Entertainment, Graphic Novels, Reviews

March 2, 2018

UNDERWOOD, SCOTCH, AND WRY – Brian D. Meeks

Arthur Byrne is a college professor with tenure and a penchant for scotch and female teaching assistants and a talent for avoiding technology. The Luddite professor has become a little bit of an embarrassment for the small college, looking to improve and grow, but they can’t do much about a tenured professor. Byrne is assigned… Continue reading

OTHER, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Humor, Literature, Reviews

February 2, 2018

AMERICAN MYTHS IN POST-9/11 MUSIC – Daniele Cuffaro

This is a highly unusual book and it is put together and reads much more like an English class final paper at any liberal arts college in the U.S. more than it does a critical book, examining the role of myths in music, post the 9/11 tragedy. In fact, author Daniele Cuffaro tells the reader… Continue reading

NON-FICTION

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, essays, Mythology/Legend, non-fiction, Reviews