Category Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review Of Fables From The Mud By Erik Quisling

Philosophy books tend to be large tomes of incomprehensible concepts, no doubt designed this way to limit readership to those already involved in this ethereal endeavor at the academic level. Very occasionally a book comes along that breaks out from … Continue reading

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Book Review: Stolen Boy By Michael Mehas

Stolen Boy is billed as a work of fiction, however it actually explores a real event, and that event is still unfolding in the Southern California court system. Jessie James Hollywood faces the potential of the trip to lethal injection … Continue reading

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Book Review: A Broad Abroad In Thailand By Dodie Cross

This is to say the least an interesting and entertaining read that covers far more ground than the title implies. Told with a huge amount of humor we follow Dodie on her sojourn to Thailand, where things do not work … Continue reading

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Book Review of the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Published to nearly unanimous praise, Kavalier & Clay takes the reader into the mean streets of Pre-and-Post WW2 Brooklyn through the Golden Age of comic books. The novel follows the lives of two cousins: Joe Kavalier, a Czech artist and … Continue reading

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Book Review: Succession by Herbert Lobsenz

I have my finger in many different pies, and one of those pies is an adult literacy program. Although I am only peripherally involved. I am always on the lookout for suitable material. Every book I read gets pigeonholed into … Continue reading

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Book Review: El Tigre by John H. Manhold

There are two very different schools of thought about historical fiction. One school rationalizes that it is an easy genre to write, the plot already exists, all you have to do is put it in your own words. The second … Continue reading

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Book Review: Unholy Domain by Dan Ronco

There are a plethora of sci-fi books that have explored what the Earth would be like after the apocalypse, and generally the apocalypse in question is a nuclear war, or some sort of plague. Unholy Domain takes this genre in … Continue reading

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Tiger?s Stalker?bob Smiley, ?follow the Roar? – Book Review

What do you call someone that follows you to work each day and watches everything you do? Under normal circumstances that would be a stalker. In this case his name is Bob Smiley the author of Follow the Roar and … Continue reading

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Book Review: Bee Balms & Burgundy by Nelson Pahl

Published by Café Reverie Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-4243-2743-0 The Author’s Note at the beginning of this novella left me wondering. “To every woman who has fought the battle, and the subsequent self-doubt and fear, win or lose… I … Continue reading

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The Dana Guide to Brain Health: a Practical Family Reference From Medical Experts. Book Review

Copyright (c) 2008 SharpBrains Dana Press kindly sent us a couple of books. One of them, The Dana Guide to Brain Health: A Practical Family Reference From Medical Experts, is our topic today. We are impressed by what … Continue reading

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