For years, I was kind of annoyed at Martha. Yes, I understood that the wrestling business, which she had so many reasons to loathe, took her husband and destroyed her family but there were countless fans of Owen’s (including myself) that wanted a DVD retrospective of Owen’s career. However, without Martha’s blessing, this was never…
Over the past 2 years, I’ve discovered that my favorite books to read are crime fiction. I fell for the genre when I picked up my first Charlie Parker novel and have never looked back – reading stuff by Stieg Larsson, Connolly, Koontz and Jeff Lindsay. With those authors, I have yet to even crack…
..But cave explorers like Vesley and Farr could not see the route and so could not anticipate the dangers, a partial list of which includes drowning, fatal falls, premature burial, asphyxiation, hypothermia, hurricane-force winds, electrocution, earthquake-induced collapses, poison gases and walls dripping with sulfuric or hydrochloric acid. There are also rabid bats, snakes, troglodytic scorpions…
School shootings. When events like this happen, you can’t turn a blind eye to it. Why? Because it’s everywhere. It’s unavoidable. I believe in almost all school shootings (and I’m no expert, folks), the shooter rarely survives the ordeal – so, we’re left with the question: why did so-and-so commit these atrocities? Unfortunately, investigative reporters…
In my opinion, biographies are the best possible option for audiobooks. This may come from my love of talk radio and podcasts or perhaps audio interviews in general but hearing the author talk about his/her life can be very satisfying. It can lend a quality that cannot be experienced while reading the physical book. In…
As you all know, I reviewed the first Dark Tower entry, The Gunslinger, in a favorable light. After I read the final page – I immediately wanted more. The problem was, I had a stack of books to read and no where within was the sequel. 3 books later, I cracked open “The Drawing Of…
I don’t really know what to think of this book. I’ll try to form some sort of..review.I really dreaded writing this because I wasn’t really sure how to put my thoughts on this into a review. Whenever I feel negative or just..weird..about a book, the review seems a lot harder to do than when I…
The setting moves to sleazy 1970s Hollywood where Jo is living the life of a rich recluse. As we’ve grown to know, Josephine is never far from controversy and when a B-list actor and his butchered friend nearly fall into her lap, Jo must try to avoid all the violence that they inadvertently bring with…
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