Maintaining a secret identity is difficult when everyone knows who you truly are. Despite insisting that he isn’t Daredevil, Matt Murdock is proving to be unsuccessful in changing the public’s belief that he is indeed The Man Without Fear. Letting the criticism and frustration roll off his back, Murdock continues to adopt this more positive…
“The trick to becoming someone else isn’t selling it to others. Most people don’t look too closely. The trick is selling it to yourself.” Those are words spoken by Charlie Hardie. Well, the other Charlie Hardie. Over the past 8 years, Hardie has been through a lot. After giving up the cop-life and becoming a…
I received an email from Lance Umenhofer requesting I take a look at his novella, And The Soft Wind Blows. Initially, I put it aside as I already had a towering stack of books to get through. However, I couldn’t shake a nagging feeling that had been telling me to read Lance’s book as soon as…
The Ones That Stuck Chris F. Holm A little while back, Brandon emailed me to ask if I’d be willing to write a guest post about short stories that’ve stuck with me over the years. This may have been a strategic error on his part. See, I’m nuts about a good short story – so…
And The Soft Wind Blows follows the life of Tim, a small town pharmacist who delivers newspapers on the side. When not working, he’s either being verbally abused by his wife or is fantasizing about Roxie, a waitress at a local diner he frequents. His life, while not perfect, is seemingly comfortable for a man…
I doubt that Connolly ever had the idea that he would do an entire book dedicated to Louis and Angel. That being said, I had hoped early on that this book would eventually exist. In The Reapers, long time associates of Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel, get their own novel. Louis and Angel have recently…
I had the opportunity a few months back to read Wesley Chu’s The Lives of Tao. When I turned the last page, I was blown away. Not only did I love this book but I thought that it could very well be the best book I’ll read released in 2013. Now, I know it’s early,…
When I first heard about this book, I was still seething from when Jay Leno took the Tonight Show away from O’Brien after only seven months of some hit or miss shows. Funny thing, for whatever reason, my hatred of Leno blinded me to the sheer stupidity of NBC. When I was finished this book,…
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