Building a Better Boomer

Building a Better Boomer details the troublesome issues that come with aging. It seems true to my experience as a recently retired boomer myself. Unfortunately, it isn’t laugh-out-loud funny, or even a quick giggle. But I may be too close to the topic. It might be better for forty andContinue Reading

Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia

If you are ready for an even funnier, and incredibly wackier, version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, look no further. Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia takes that iconic novel and raises the pot 200%! Zoey is trying to run her father’s criminal enterprise in a desertContinue Reading

Antimatter Blues

Mickey7 is back but he has the Antimatter Blues. Despite being an Expendable, who was previously just painfully regenerated whenever his missions were too much for his frail human body, he has been accepted into the colony on planet Niflheim. However, some of his actions to achieve that status (madeContinue Reading

The Fifth Horseman

We first meet Emma atop a dome high above Liverpool. You see she has decided to end it all by jumping to her death. But wait, her flatmate, Mark, has come to rescue her, while also declaring his love for her. One teeter later and they are both plunging toContinue Reading

Prancer the Demon Chihuahua

Everyone is going to love Prancer the Demon Chihuahua. He’s got BDE (get your mind out of the gutter, it stands for Big Dog Energy, of course!) Everyone loves him including Ariel his victim, er, owner. She loves him even though he likes leaving surprise puddles in unusual places likeContinue Reading

Nether Regions

Everyone has a dotty old uncle, grandparent, or even spouse that cannot tell a linear story. They go shooting off in irrelevant tangents usually never returning to, or maybe even remembering, their original point. Nether Regions works exactly the same. What starts as a witty take on Heaven circles soContinue Reading

Has Anyone Seen My Toes

Has Anyone Seen My Toes? is a humor book about the South. I was expecting a more erudite and classier (but still funny) Dave Barry. What I got was feeling trapped in a brain so weird it made me feel normal—and I have ADHD. The author is what we usedContinue Reading

Post Traumatic Texts

Unfortunately, Post Traumatic Texts is not funny…at all. It should be pitched as a memoir of unmemorable events. However, kudos to the authors for writing a book. That’s more than I have done. 2 stars. Thanks to the authors and NetGalley for a digital review copy of the book.Continue Reading

The Book of Pslams

What if God was not the benevolent, and vengeful, God of the Bible? What if he had job burnout and a sarcastic sense of humor? You are about to find out in The Book of Pslams. God has already written down everything about how mankind can live a good life.Continue Reading

The Recovery Agent

Stephanie Plum’s creator comes up with a new free-spirited female character in Gabriella Rose, The Recovery Agent. Gabriella finds lost things as a profession but this time it’s personal. Gabriella’s grandmother has a kooky idea to save their small Southern fishing town from developers. So, Gabriella is soon searching forContinue Reading

Sundial

Chilling! Thrilling! Sundial is a genuinely frightening tale of a family gone horribly wrong. If everyone around you is mad, is the best response to go mad yourself? Rob is worried. Her daughter, Callie, is acting strangely. Her husband, Irving, is cheating on her…again. Unfortunately, Rob can’t divorce Irving becauseContinue Reading