Humor
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STANDARD HOLLYWOOD DEPRAVITY – Adam Christopher
While I wasn’t thrilled with author Adam Christopher’s book Hang Wire, I’m having a blast with his tongue-in-cheek mystery/detective series ‘Ray Electromatic Mysteries.’ Raymond Electromatic is a robot. He’s the last of his kind … a programmed assassin created by the U.S. government. But the program is what got killed and Ray is the only… Continue reading
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GHOSTS FROM OUR PAST – Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates, with Andrew Shaffer
Well, this was a lot of fun. Although this is a media tie-in to the new Ghostbusters film, there has clearly been a great deal of effort put in to this book to provide as thorough a read as possible. In fact, there were often times I had to remind myself that this was satire… Continue reading
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THE FERRYMAN INSTITUTE – Colin Gigl
I knew next to nothing about this book before going in to it except that the basic description seemed pretty interesting. It sounded like a school for Ferrymen … those who help the recently departed cross over from life to the after-life. The book was so much more than that and both more and less than I… Continue reading
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THE ALTOGETHER UNEXPECTED DISAPPEARANCE OF ATTICUS CRAFTSMAN – Mamen Sánchez
This is a funny, heart-warming book, full of great, odd characters who are only great, and odd, because they seem so real. Atticus Craftsman is part of the Craftsman and Co publishing dynasty family. The company has decided to shut down one of their magazines (Librarte) and so Atticus is sent to Madrid to begin… Continue reading
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HIDDEN UNIVERSE TRAVEL GUIDES: THE COMPLETE MARVEL COSMOS – Marc Sumerak
I absolutely adored the Star Trek edition of the Hidden Universe Travel Guide (see review here), and being a long-time fan of Marvel comics (and renewed fan thanks to the movies) I was really looking forward to this next edition in the series. But what felt like a real travel guide in our make-believe world… Continue reading
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WHERE THE HELL IS TESLA? – Rob Dircks
In the tradition of Ron Goulart’s What’s Become of Screwloose and Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comes Rob Dircks’ Where the Hell is Tesla? Slacker Chip, who manages to get a job as a security guard for the FBI, grabs an old desk out of a warehouse and discovers an old journal… Continue reading
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OLIVER TWISTED – Cindy Brown
This is my third Ivy Meadows Mystery (and third in the series) and I find these books to be just plain fun. Ivy Meadows is an amateur actor and an amateur detective, working for her Uncle Bob’s private investigations firm (Duda Detective Agency). This time the agency has a special client … a cruise ship… Continue reading
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THE FIRESIDE GROWN-UP GUIDE TO THE HUSBAND – Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris
‘Tis the season for parody and humor. This is a quick read, offering up a few good chuckles. Based on an old book series, Ladybird Books based in the United Kingdom, this series cleverly uses the original illustrations from the mid-twentieth century and adds new story. You know what you’re getting in to with the… Continue reading
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GOODNIGHT BATCAVE – Dave Croatto
Only MAD® Magazine can parody a classic and get away with it. Here MAD® takes on the children’s book classic, Goodnight Moon and mashes it up with Batman. It’s a short book (about 30 pages), just as the original Goodnight Moon is short. The art is quite typical of what you would see in one… 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 MUNCHKIN BOOK – James Lowder, editor
If you are any kind of geek at all, you already know about the card game Munchkin and many of its variants. But what do you really know about the game, the creators and many of its bizarre rules? This collection of (mostly) humorous essays gives the reader and game player a peek of the Munchkin… Continue reading
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ONLY BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER – James Morrow
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEW A REISSUE I’ve only read one other James Morrow book (Towing Jehovah) and I’m not sure why that is. Morrow is a fantastic writer and, based on the now two books that I’ve read, he is incredibly original, funny, and dark. This book takes on Christianity, skewers it, and flips it on… Continue reading
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