Batman: Detective Comics Vol 4: Deus Ex Machina
Atypical, thought-provoking addition to the Detective Comics series. Perfect for DaVinci Code fans. This ‘comic’ studies the nature of man and existence. It is truly philosophical and full of former religious beliefs like the gnostics. Would man be better off omniscient? The author’s answer appears to be no. Is anContinue Reading
The Walking Dead Vol 27: The Whisperer War
Not one of the better issues but moves from point A to Point B. The Whisperer War is finally fought. Rick’s group has an internal war brewing with the Sanctuary. Negan loses an old friend and reveals some of his backstory. Anticlimactic ending to the Whisperer War leaves this volumeContinue Reading
Jazz Maynard
Gangs, dirty cops, missing children, sex trafficking and murder explode across this noir crime thriller. Childhood friends Jazz, Teo and Judas go down separate life paths that all involve crime. There is a significant flashback in chapter two explaining how the boys’ paths diverged. While rescuing his sister from poorContinue Reading
A Hundred Small Lessons
A Hundred Small Lessons is a haunting discourse about life wrapped around two families’ stories within a single house. Elsie and Clem buy a newly built house soon after World War II is over. They have eight-year-old twins and Elsie finds the reason for her existence in motherhood. Sixty-one yearsContinue Reading
Babyteeth Vol 1
Epic new comic that reads like a classic horror story. Sadie is 16 and giving birth during a series of earthquakes in Salt Lake City Utah. The earthquakes stop immediately after her son Clark is born. At the same time, a mysterious group called The Silhouette is attempting to killContinue Reading
Catakism
Great last minute gift for cat fans! Catakism is the faith of all humans who bow to their cat rulers. All cat owners, not just crazy cat ladies, will see much that is familiar in this pun-filled book. Broken down into chapters like The Book of Knead and The BookContinue Reading
Artemis
More like Ocean’s Eleven than The Martian but still a 4 star read! The only similarity between Artemis and The Martian is the main character’s inventive use of science to solve their problems. Jazz is a smuggler on Artemis, the sole city on the moon. She is whip smart butContinue Reading
Alpha Alpine
Ms. Daheim begins again at A with this alphabetic cozy mystery series. Alpha Alpine is the 27th in the Emma Lord series. It’s Labor Day in Alpine, a small town in the Cascade Range of mountains in Washington state. Emma is investigating a mysterious death of a new waitress atContinue Reading
Murder for the Books
Formulaic mystery with a small town atmosphere and a refreshing romance. Amy Webber has run back to her aunt’s house in small town Taylorsford Virginia following a disastrous and public breakup with her boyfriend. Her job as a public library Director with only one employee, Sunny Fields, is fun butContinue Reading
The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook
Filled with 200 recipes from breakfast to dinner to dessert, who knew cooking with an Instant Pot could be so simple. The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook is a great resource for those people lucky enough to own an Instant Pot or other brand of electric pressure cooker. The author explainsContinue Reading
The House of Unexpected Sisters
Precious has one case and two personal issues to resolve in the latest novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Charity is fired for rudeness to a customer but she swears she wasn’t rude. However, her mother says she is sometimes unexpectedly discourteous. Who is the lady withContinue Reading
The Whispering Room
Jane Hawk continues to hunt down her husband’s killer in this action-packed sequel to The Silent Corner. Jane is searching for the top man at Far Horizons, David James Michael, to record his confession. His company is using brain nanobots to control people. Some are used as submissive sex slaves,Continue Reading
Batman/The Shadow: The Murder Geniuses
An imaginative noir comic thick with backstory and full of plot twists! What villain is killing Gotham City’s philanthropists? The Shadow knows the evil in the hearts of men but is he a hero or a villain? Mentioning almost any part of the plot of this great noir comic wouldContinue Reading
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys investigate Fenton Hardy’s suicide in this graphic noir thriller. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are all grown up. They live in Bayport, which also houses the Bobbsey twins. The art, coloring and lettering are great. The story less so. There were 175 NancyContinue Reading
Not Now, Not Ever
A fun “King of the Nerds” meets Jeopardy summer camp is the setting for this entertaining young adult romance. Ever Lawrence is determined to make her own way in life. She won’t become a lawyer like her Dad, a local community theater actress who sells real estate like her StepmomContinue Reading
A World Without Whom
Style guide for the social media generation and those that want to communicate with them. Based on the Buzzfeed Style Guide (https://www.buzzfeed.com/emmyf/buzzfeed-style-guide?utm_term=.lmm2Yq31eo#.eezqxB8Lnl) and written by the same author, A World Without Whom goes further by explaining the whys behind the rules. Emily also pokes fun at herself and fellow copyContinue Reading