“We’re not going to be able to go far with all these trees,” Drummond said. “I was thinking we’d park here.” “It would have been legal to park on the roadside.” “I don’t want anyone to be able to see the car from the road. We’re trying to sneak onto the club grounds.” “I see. Good Thinking.”…… Continue reading Once a Spy by Keith Thomson
All my spontaneity would have to be subdued. Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio leaves me confused. I liked this book, no, I loved it, and then I really, really didn’t. I’ll explain that first and then spend most of this review, reviewing the first 90% of the book and pretending the end didn’t happen. The…… Continue reading Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
“I don’t want to be a hero today. I miss the world already. I miss flying. I miss being a naval officer. I guess I still am, but I’m not sure if there is even a government around to recognize my commission.” Day by Day Armageddon is okay but not spectacular, enjoyable and quick but not one…… Continue reading Day by Day Armageddon by JL Bourne
What’s not to love about Dr. Seuss? I’ve read a lot of his work and love it. Even as an adult, I love reading Dr. Seuss. The story reads like songs with rhythm and rhyme. The art is bright but understated and imaginative. I imagine children love twisting the words and I know adults do…… Continue reading Dr. Seuss’s ABC by Dr. Seuss
The Tickle Tree is a wonderfully lyrical fantastic story, taking the reader on a journey through the imagination. The artwork is fabulous and the words spiral around the page, perfectly fitting into the art. In places, the words are props for the characters to use to leap from page to page. Each playful, imaginative scene…… Continue reading The Tickle Tree by Chae Strathi, illustrated by Poly Bernatene
…surely our spirit can survive an overdose or two of misguided notions and questionable taste, and still come out blazing in the end. Bourbon was a fun roller-coaster ride following bourbon’s rise and fall amidst the great social changes that influenced America. Huckelbridge tied bourbon closely with American movements such as frontier times, wild west,…… Continue reading Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit by Dane Huckelbridge
Meh, that’s what I thought at first. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was neither good or bad but just uninteresting and pretty boring. Then, it got ridiculous and really bad. I have to say, the only reason I finished the book was because I was reading it for a reading challenge and even then, I pretty…… Continue reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Death ain’t nothing. I done seen him. Done wrasled with him. You can’t tell me nothing about death. death ain’t nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. Fences is a dramatic look into the life of a struggling black family in the 1950’s when times are changing, hard work doesn’t get you everything you need and…… Continue reading Fences by August Wilson
We made a shape and we called it a country We didn’t know how much blood it would take to fill the idea Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren was a random pick from the library shelves. I decided to give poetry a chance, and I liked the few lines I read as a test. I…… Continue reading Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren
The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is. If we stop telling ourselves that the world is so-and-so, the world will stop being so-and-so. My dad handed me the Castaneda books years ago and told me to start with A Separate Reality. He was truly…… Continue reading A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda
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