Jake spends his days in a waking coma. He walks the streets at night, produces a syndicated comic strip during the day, and grabs sleep when he can. It’s not a bad life considering he was once accused of murdering his wife, a charge he managed to avoid due to a lack of evidence. But…
Seeing as Matt Scudder ages along with his creator, Lawrence Block doesn’t feel there’s much interest in following the activities of a detective in his mid-70s. Rather than write a follow-up to All The Flowers Are Dying, Block backtracks about thirty years, all the way back to Scudder’s first year of sobriety where he finds…
Do you remember the really popular, beautiful, “it” girl in high school? Remember thinking how perfect your life would be if you were her boyfriend? Hey, maybe her rich father could hook you up with a great, cushy job. Well, I’ve got some great news for you – you’re married and you’ve got that job!…
Acclaimed thriller author Jerry Grey is given some devastating news: at the ripe age of forty nine, he’s been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. Not knowing how to cope with his newfound illness, Jerry begins a project dubbed “The Madness Journal”, a guide for him to refer to when the disease ravages his brain. I…
Last year, the WWE Network produced a brief special on Daniel Bryan. The mini-documentary followed Bryan in the days leading up to WrestleMania 30, where he was scheduled to have the biggest night of his then fifteen year career. The documentary briefly touched on what brought him to this point, talking about his days with…
Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager presents a bleak vision of mankind hundreds of years in the future. While technology has advanced to the point of interplanetary travel and colony settlement, supplies are running low. Luckily for the human race, they’ve perfected time travel! Using this technology, a select few are tasked with going into the past…
The Year of the Flood is Margaret Atwood’s follow up to Oryx & Crake. Rather than write a direct sequel, The Year of the Flood’s events occur alongside Oryx & Crake, acting as a stort of expansion on the original story. The story follows Toby and Ren, two of the three people Jimmy comes into…
The day I started my journey through the Scudder series in 2011, I’ve been dreading this moment. I somehow managed to stretch the sixteen novels over the past four years in an attempt to get maximum enjoyment out of the series. It was a great choice, if I don’t say so myself. While there are…
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