by Wade | Jul 14, 2021 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies
Keeping with the hair metal theme this month, I just finished Motley Crue’s warts-and-all history, as told by the band members. If the 1980s was the decade of decadence, Motley Crue was in its hair metal vanguard. The book follows Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince...
by Wade | Nov 20, 2020 | Book Reviews, Reader Updates
Writers steal and don’t let them tell you otherwise. We’re constantly looking at how the masters put their words, characters, and stories together. We crib from those works use them in our own. And those old masters? They cribbed too. The...
by Wade | Mar 9, 2019 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen I’m trying to read outside my comfort zone and came across this book in the library. The dust jacket claimed: Already hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal,...
by Wade | Feb 22, 2019 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin I’ve heard a lot about this book, or at least have seen the headlines and hoopla about the series, so I decided it was time to see what the Hugo award winner was all about. The story follows a far future post-apocalyptic Earth where...
by Wade | Dec 14, 2018 | Book Reviews
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, is a book that got quite a bit of attention after it was published. It falls into that category of book that straddles the line between literary and science fiction sensibilities. I decided to pick up this book now that things have...
