Most days are a struggle for Meg as she navigates her life with a rare autoimmune disease, so she can hardly believe it when she is approached with a potential cure for her Fayette-Gehret Syndrome. The method? Check herself into Graceview Memorial hospital for a months-long stay designed to completely destroy, and subsequently rebuild, her…
If you asked me what my dream Simpsons book would be, it would be a behind-the-scenes examination of the first ten seasons. Well, it turns out dreams do come true because Alan Siegal has written just that book! Siegal completed countless interviews with the creative team behind the show’s conception, launch and its first decade…
For Rose Dubois, and many other retirees, Autumn Springs is home. Nestled in Upstate New York, the residents are living out their golden years in comfort. That is until Rose’s close friend is found dead in her unit, believed to be felled by a slip and fall. However, the severity of the injuries leave many…
In Chuck Tingle’s LUCKY DAY, on May 23, the world experienced what became known as an LPE, a Low Probability Event. Over eight million people lost their lives in seemingly impossible and bizarre ways. They were either crushed by falling fish, hung by a soaring parade balloon, murdered by an enraged chimpanzee holding an old…
As author John Green points out in his book EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS, many people view the disease as something from the past; something that befalls characters in old movies and video games symbolized by the “blood in the rag” following a coughing fit. The sad truth is that the disease is still very much with…
In THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE, author Daniel James Brown tackles the story of The Donner Party and their ill-fated journey across the United States to the promised land of California. Before reading this book, I had maybe a passing knowledge of The Donner Party in that I only knew them as “those pioneers who ate…
Following retirement, former Chicago detective Cal pursues his dream of moving abroad to settle down in a picturesque Irish countryside. He barely has time to acclimatise to his new surroundings before word spreads amongst the locals of his law enforcement past. A young member of the community, Trey, arrives on Cal’s doorstep, urging him to…
Following in the footsteps of band-mate Travis Barker’s 2014 book, Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus tells his life story in his new memoir, FAHRENHEIT 182. If anything, the story of Blink 182 has enough ups, downs, and drama to fill several books, but Mark managed to fit the story of the band into four hundred pages (or…
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