The Address Book addresses why addresses are important. So why are addresses important? “Addresses are one of the cheapest ways to lift people out of poverty, facilitating access to credit, voting rights, and worldwide markets.” And, “most households in the world don’t have street addresses.” Before Americans feel too superior,Continue Reading
Which comes first, the feeling of fear or the physical expression of it? Surprisingly, in Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear, the author presents scientific studies showing that the physical symptoms are interpreted by our brain into the feelings—rather than the other way around. The author of this bookContinue Reading
Just as Raiders of the Lost Ark was Spielberg’s homage to the adventure serials of his youth, Treasure Fever is an homage to Raiders. This time the adventurer is named Max Finley. His original goal is to find Lexa, a beautiful woman wanted for copying an ancient text in Spain,Continue Reading
My Review The Fireman has escaped from custody and the serial killings begin again in The Final Deception, the fifth book in the New York Confidential series. The Fireman strangles his victims, cuts out their tongues, gouges their eyes out, and burns their, then dead, bodies. FBI Agent Craig andContinue Reading
Okay, I can see by page 10 why this comic upset so many people—even non-Christians. The god in this comic (indicated by a lowercase g) is a dick. As are most of the humans within Second Coming: Volume One. The book’s god calls all humans “jerks” and much worse. HeContinue Reading
The author of the paranormal Charley Davidson mysteries begins a new comic and romantic mystery series with A Bad Day for Sunshine. Sunshine is the name of the Sheriff of tiny Del Sol, New Mexico. Del Sol is her hometown that she left at seventeen after a tragic incident. Now,Continue Reading
What could be more exciting than a large cruise ship on a collision course to disaster? I thought of A Night to Remember, The Poseidon Adventure, or Titanic. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria has the potential to be an equally great movie. However, as a book, not soContinue Reading
Extremely short and humorous comic strips of famous book plots fill Long Story Short. Books from Beowulf to The Hunger Games are sumarized here. The summaries can be direct such as “You can love someone and still be racist.” for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But most are also humorous.Continue Reading
Mind over Weight looks at how important motivation is to achieving weight loss. However, most of the ideas will be familiar to Psychology 101 alumni or anyone who has read a few other diet books. For example, SMART goals, intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivators, and meditation as a stress-reliever are fairlyContinue Reading
Strike Me Down had me at this quote: “‘The event is sold out, but we’ve sunk that revenue—‘ ‘Cash, not revenue,’ Nora corrected.’” Why did I love this quote? Because no one ever cares enough about accounting to even bother fact-checking it. Nora is a forensic accountant hired to findContinue Reading
Ursula is a thief. Alice is a victim. Gareth is a loser. Strangers is all three of their stories and how they will eventually become entangled. The beginning of Strangers was rather slow as we see each of the three characters’ lives from their own point-of-view. It takes about halfContinue Reading
What happens when you mix Great Expectations with a bit of early Stephen King and a handful of Robin Cook? She has a Broken Thing Where her Heart Should Be, of course. A totally effective mashing of all my favorite 1980s books with the 1861 Dickens tale. I guarantee youContinue Reading
Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery (Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series) by Gayle Leeson About Perils and Lace Perils and Lace: A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Publisher: Grace Abraham Publishing Number of Pages – 212 (approx.) Digital ASIN: B086KXY34W A murderer outwitting a quirky flapper ghost?Continue Reading
Whitney and her cousin Buck are house flippers. One morning, Whitney can’t open the front door of their most recent flip. After entering through the garage, Whitney finds a body Dead in the Doorway. She also finds the former owner’s grandson, Dakota, squatting in the house. Dakota identifies the bodyContinue Reading
After She Wrote Him is the wildly inventive tale of two writers writing about each other. But which one is fictional? “‘It’s an exploration of an author’s relationship with her protagonist, an examination of the tenuous line between belief and reality, imagination and self, and what happens when that lineContinue Reading
In Providence, Mankind is fighting an alien race that acts nothing like mankind. The derogatory label of Salamanders is applied to this exoskeletal species. They appear to live in hives the size of planets out in the far, far universe. When we first run into them, they kill the majorityContinue Reading