Drink Me! has 25 cocktail recipes all linked to the plot of Alice in Wonderland. Each recipe comes with a brief explanation of how it relates to the Alice in Wonderland story. For example, the Unbirthday Cake Martini uses cake frosting-infused vodka, hazelnut and raspberry liqueurs, and pineapple and lemonContinue Reading
Upgrade Soul is a thought-provoking new graphic novel about the nature of humanity and the dangers of technology. Hank and Molly are rich and elderly. They decide to do an experimental medical treatment that promises to make them young and healthy again. Problems occur. Ethical questions arise. What does itContinue Reading
Innovative plotting and world building fill the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. What would make the replay of a day over and over immeasurably worse? How about also waking up as different people each time you fell asleep? The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a clever blendContinue Reading
Everyone Lies in this fast-paced rollercoaster ride of a thriller. Joe and Mel have an ideal life. Happily married for almost ten years with a perfect young son, William. When Joe and William see Mel turn into a hotel garage, they follow. Joe sees her sitting in the hotel restaurantContinue Reading
Malice Aforethought is a great British golden-age mystery with a killer twist. Mrs. Julia Bickleigh was born into wealth and minor aristocracy. When her father blew the family fortunes before his death, Julia was forced to marry a common doctor. She never let her husband, Dr. Edmund Bickleigh, forget heContinue Reading
It’s a familar party game. Put your five favorite people, living or dead, on your Dinner List. This book speculates on what would happen if the dinner actually occurred. Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner at a trendy restaurant. Seated at the table are the five guests she named.Continue Reading
Enter this book giveaway to grab a paperback copy of The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York by Peter J Tomasi (writer) and Sara Duvall (illustrator). It’s a surprisingly interesting graphic novel of how the iconic Brooklyn Bridge was created. My review is here and now you have a chanceContinue Reading
Where are the haunts in Read and Gone, the second book in the Haunted Library series? Carrie has her life on track. She has a boyfriend, a job as a library events coordinator and a cute cottage where the rent is cheap. So she isn’t happy when her thieving ex-conContinue Reading
Oblivion Song Vol 1 is a great sci-fi horror comic by the creator of The Walking Dead. Oblivion was created ten years prior when Philadelphia was overrun by huge alien beasts from an alternate dimension. Unfortunately, the beasts like the taste of human flesh. 20,000 are missing and presumed dead.Continue Reading
Guess Who is a mash-up of Saw and The Game, where nothing is what it appears. Sheppard, a famous true crime television detective, wakes up handcuffed to the bed in a hotel room. He remembers nothing of how he arrived there. With him are five strangers: Mandy, Alan, Ryan, ConstanceContinue Reading
Hilarious serial killer thriller where no one wants to be the next #FashionVictim. Everyone fantasizes about how to kill their office rivals (or maybe that’s just me). Few carry those fantasies out in real life. Anya is prepared to kill an intern for a pitying look. When the intern isContinue Reading
Rett and Bryn continually awaken in the apocalyptic future in the Echo Room. Step 1: Rett wakes up in a locked metal room with no memory of how he got there. He has blood on his clothes and hands. Soon he sees Bryn, who is also locked in the roomContinue Reading
If art is why you love comics, Batman/Catwoman: The Wedding Album is a must have! Including only three stories, this comic is shorter than most compilations. It contains the Engagement, the Dress and the Big Day. It also adds a Wedding cover variant gallery, a sketchbook and a look atContinue Reading
Batman: Preludes to the Wedding includes six stories providing background to the events that occur in Batman and Catwoman: The Wedding Album. The first and last story describe how the Joker receives his wedding invitation. The last also includes Harley Quinn. From This Day Forward includes a scene of DamienContinue Reading
The Jane Hawk series finally hits its stride with its fourth entry, The Forbidden Door. The Techno Arcadians are upping their game by accusing Jane on a 60 Minutes-style show of murdering her beloved husband Matt and faking his suicide. The Arcadians set in motion a plan to kidnap orContinue Reading
The 21 Lessons for the 21st Century cover five broad areas: technology, politics, despair and hope, truth and resilience. In the 1990s, it appeared that liberalism had won its war with communism and facism. Even Russia had become, nominally at least, democratic. During the Trump and Brexit era, liberalism isContinue Reading