Nicole Sorkin's Blog – March 2012 Archive (17)

Reviewed by: James F. Sadler,  Pacific Book Review

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In the world of hard-boiled detective fiction, the story is generally not so much about solving a mystery as it is setting things up for the hero to take on the bad guys and win, usually with bullets flying and plenty of bloodletting. Unfortunately, too many writers have turned this into a template for a lot of bad stories filled with clichés,…

Interviewed by:  S. Marie Vernon, Pacific Book Review

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Today we are with Mr. Dennis K. Hausker author of the new book The Gathering Storm-The Adventure continues in Book II of the Faenum Quest.

PBR:  Give us a quick synopsis of The Gathering Storm-Book II in the Faenum Quest Series.…

Reviewed by:  S Marie Vernon, Pacific Book Review

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The Gathering Storm – In Book II of the Faenum Quest the Adventure Continues with Dave Cray, he is a prophet, an avatar, and a champion for good who becomes a legend.  Dave and his comrades have left the evil Rajduki Empire.  They all have had devastating experiences there, but forge onward with their…

Reviewed by:   James Sadler, Pacific Book Review

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The title Araba, a word meaning “Let’s Separate” or “Let’s Dissolve,” refers to the Nigerian Civil War which began in 1966 and continued for nearly four years. The word was first used by rioters at a…

Reviewed by:  Brandon Nolta,  Pacific Book Review

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Traveling can be a tiring activity, whether you’re driving across the state or flying halfway around the world. As Lila L. Pinord demonstrates in her novel In Time, flitting across space and time at random is even more exhausting, and a good deal more frightening.

The book follows a number of characters, but is most concerned…

Reviewed by:  Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review

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Intelligently written and as fast as a Greyhound chasing Rusty, the electronic pace-rabbit at the Kennel Club Dog Track, author Anne Gilbert takes her readers by the collar and pulls them quickly into a story of retribution, revenge and reprisal in her novelette, Mayor of the Dog Park. …

Interviewed by:   Rebecca Ross Klosinski for Pacific Book Review

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Thank you again for joining us today to discuss your book titled, A Box of Shorts.

MP: Thank you very much for having me. It’s nice to be…

Reviewed by:   Rebecca Ross Klosinski, Pacific Book Review

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The cleverly titled A Box of Shorts is a collection of seven short stories by author Mike Proko that introduce readers to an unlikely mix of characters in a series of detailed vignettes.  From a young boy who discovers the first stirrings of passion for…

Reviewed by:  Tamar Mekredijian, Pacific Book Review

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Most of the time, strong opinions about politics and religion aren’t received well. People are easily turned off by other people who give their opinions and turn a deaf ear to those who try to convince them to believe what they believe.  However, Michael L. Proko’s collected columns titled…

Reviewed by:  Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review

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n one word - adorable.  Written as a first person narrative through the eyes of a kitten growing up to become a cat, Macinaw experiences all of the adventures of kitten hood as it learns to roam, hunt, socialize and become a cat in Macinaw’s Memoirs, Born to Hunt.  Clearly author CR Gable has an empathic eye when watching…

Interviewed by:  Pacific Book Review

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Mortus

Book I of the Faenum Quest - The Adventure Begins.

Today we are with Mr. Dennis K. Hausker author of the new bookMortus-Book I-The Adventure Begins Book I of the Faenum Quest.Denny, thank you for joining us. 

DH:  Thank…

Reviewed by:S. Marie Vernon,  Pacific Book Review

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Mortus - Book I of the Faenum Quest the adventure begins is a unique epic fantasy with high and dark fantasy elements.  Author Dennis K. Hausker is realistic about the flawed and dark nature of society and allows this to come through in some of the characters he creates.  But where great evil is found great…

Interviewed by:  Tamar Mekredijian for Pacific Book Review

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Today we are with Raf Leon Dahlquist, author of the new book Lone Dog Barking; a novella based on a true story dealing with the US Government’s testing of hundreds of nuclear weapons on US soil in Nevada, during the ramp up of the Cold…

Interviewed by: James F. Sadler for Pacific Book Review

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Today we have the pleasure of being with W. S. Marble, author of the new book Boilerplate Reich. …

Reviewed by:  Brandon Nolta, Pacific Book Review

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The trouble with dystopias is that, on certain fundamental levels, they tend to be unsustainable. Through inherent instability, the surging need to be free within the human animal or simply not taking into account certain aspects of human nature, dystopic societies in fiction tend not to be terribly functional in the long term. Preston Fleming…

Reviewed by:  Jason Lulos, Pacific Book Review

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First, this is a self-transformation book. It is a “glass-could-be-half-full” book if you have the courage to (ful) fill it. Refreshingly, any political or otherwise dogmatic agenda you might intuit as subtext is, in fact, not implicit. Smith's text and subtext are both explicitly the project of creating conditions equality and coexistence: for…

Reviewed by:  Tamar Mekredijian, Pacific Book Review  

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