Added by Michelle Lancaster on April 8, 2013 at 3:05pm — No Comments
by: John Steinbeck
A Bantam Book July 1962
9780142000700
From my personal library
Rating: 3.5
First off, Charley is a dog. You would think that John Steinbeck would have a manly dog, a lab, a retriever or maybe a shepard? Well you would be wrong. Charley is a poodle and he is…
ContinueAdded by Michelle Lancaster on April 8, 2013 at 2:34pm — No Comments
A Virgil Flowers Novel
By John Sandford
Putnam 388 pgs
978-0-399-15769-1
Rating: Read This Book!
Virgil Flowers is back, our favorite shitkicker detective. This is the OK Corral: not only is he after the bad guys but he's cleaning up the town while he's at it.
Our story begins when a bomb explodes in a Michigan high rise housing the corporate headquarters of PyeMart, a builder of some sort of upscale Walmart things. Three weeks later…
ContinueAdded by Michelle Lancaster on April 8, 2013 at 1:33pm — No Comments
Added by Melissa Brown Levine on February 16, 2013 at 4:55pm — No Comments
Memory. What is it? Words or is it pictures? I don’t know if people think about that unless they notice exactly what goes through their heads when they remember. If a name is mentioned, does a picture of the person flash through the head? Or a street named in the hometown. Is it accompanied by a landscape?
Writers probably think about that more than other people. Pictures in the head inspire a writer to transcribe them or create them. I…
Added by Katherine L. Holmes on January 8, 2013 at 2:45pm — No Comments
Hello everyone,
I'd like to open this blog in a somewhat generic fashion by shameless plugging my book. However, this blog with, at later dates, offer extracts of writing that expand on characters, discuss characters and plots and even host some of my art work. So, if you're a fan of fantasy, young adult fiction, or writing in general feel free to follow and harass me on this blog, and to buy book... that would be really, really swell and helpful :)
The book…
ContinueAdded by P. A. J. Quatrine on December 28, 2012 at 1:53pm — No Comments
Reading and Inspiration
Added by George Michael Loughmueller on September 11, 2012 at 7:10am — No Comments
Added by Jody on September 2, 2012 at 10:34am — No Comments
Added by Jody on September 2, 2012 at 10:29am — No Comments
Children wearing new clothes and carrying bright backpacks stand huddled waiting for the yellow buses that now dot the roads. A collective sigh can be heard from all the mothers who now have a few hours of quiet. Yes, school is back. Sharpened pencils, crammed notebooks and assignments will soon stuff backpacks. And a part of those assignments are reading lists.
Remember those lists? I have spoken to some people about the reading lists from their school days and I discovered…
Added by Sherry Parnell on August 29, 2012 at 7:48pm — No Comments
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
These are the words etched on John Keats’ tombstone. Keats, an English Romantic poet, died at the young age of twenty-five with a keen understanding of life’s transience. But did he choose these words because he was aware of his mortality or because he feared it?
Experiencing the death of both his parents before eighteen, Keats obviously understood the nature of life’s unpredictability and impermanence, providing him with a…
Added by Sherry Parnell on August 23, 2012 at 1:56pm — No Comments
Mystery, supernatural, John Green, Jan Burke, reviews, giveaways & more in new KRL issue
New issue of Kings River Life is up and we have a review of Jan Burke's supernatural thriller "The Messenger", a chance to win a copy of the book & a video interview with her from Left Coast Crime http://kingsriverlife.com/06/30/the-messenger-by-jan-burke/
Also in KRL are reviews of Elaine Viets "Final Sail" and Josie Belle's "50% Off Murder" & a chance to win copies of both…
ContinueAdded by Lorie Ham on June 30, 2012 at 1:41pm — No Comments
Free Copy of Detroit Daze, by Crime Fiction Author John H. Byk (pen name, Conrad Johnson)
John H. Byk (pen name, Conrad Johnson) was born and raised on the gritty streets of Detroit, Michigan. After surviving high school, he joined the Coast Guard and then went back to school to earn his Masters of Art in English. …
Added by Mayra Calvani on May 11, 2012 at 11:14am — No Comments
Sagaria, By: John Dahlgren - Book Review
Reviewed by: Brandon Nolta, Pacific Book Review
Life can be tough when you’re a teenager, and for 14-year-old Sagandran Sacks, the going is definitely not easy. His parents are separated, his school days are full of bullying and hardship, and one of the nastiest of the bullies has purchased a summer home just up the hill from his grandfather Melwin, thus spoiling the summer vacation he looked…
ContinueAdded by Nicole Sorkin on April 17, 2012 at 4:13pm — No Comments
Controversial Movies
Hollywood’s Lighting Rod Films Have Sometimes Led to Severe Public Reactions.
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004) and Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ (2004) continued a long line of controversial films. In 1968 John Wayne decided to counter Vietnam War protests by turning The Green Berets, a collection of short stories by author Robin Moore about the superhero like exploits of the US Army Special Forces into a…
ContinueAdded by Stephen Schochet on January 23, 2012 at 5:49pm — No Comments
Author Interview with John L. Dunegan
Added by Nicole Sorkin on December 6, 2011 at 11:54pm — No Comments
My Half of Tomorrow, by: John L. Dunegan - Book Review
Reviewed by: Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review
http://www.pacificbookreview.com
“Never drink coffee on a roller coaster,” was the thought that cycled through my mind as I was reading My Half of Tomorrow, a brilliantly written science fiction tale by John L. Dunegan just released by the publisher iUniverse. My comment means we all know that holding a cup of coffee would spill if you’re riding a roller…
ContinueAdded by Nicole Sorkin on December 6, 2011 at 11:52pm — No Comments
Added by Katherine L. Holmes on August 21, 2011 at 12:37pm — No Comments
Added by Martha A. Cheves on August 18, 2011 at 7:21pm — No Comments
Review: Paper Towns
Added by Readinista on August 18, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
1999
© 2013 Created by Tricia.
Powered by
