Book Review – The Beatles 100
Ever since I began reading books about my all-time favorite group, have searched out for those that didn’t exactly regurgitate the same stories. Or, if they…
Book Review – HEAT 2 by Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner
Anyone who knows me, for that matter this blog, could easily foresee that the first novel by the renowned director-producer-screenwriter, Michael Mann, would have been so…
Audiobook Review – Beatles New York to L.A. Double
Ever since I began reading books about my all-time favorite group, have searched out for those that didn’t exactly regurgitate the same stories. Or, if they…
Book Review – The Beatles From A to Zed
Ever since I began reading books about my all-time favorite group, have searched out for those that didn’t exactly regurgitate the same stories. Or, if they…
Book Review – Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of The Beatles
No surprise given this the 50th anniversary for what turned out to be The Beatles final album, a number of tomes released in 2019 covering that…
Book Review – Beatles ’66: The Revolutionary Year
Given that it took some time, and a toll, to finish You Never Give Me Your Money by Peter Doggett this year, needed something to refresh the…
Kill City Blues Audiobook Review
Since I don’t write book or audiobook reviews at anything close to a regular rate, I thought to get one out before 2016 was more than…
Book Review – The Beatles’ Second Album (Rock of Ages) by Dave Marsh
At this very moment, playing on the vintage (almost forty year-old) Technics turntable as I write this is an artifact of my youth. A five decades-old LP — okay, the…
Audiobook Behavioral Science – Thomas’ Trilogy + Lee’s One
Have read every single book1 written by the man who began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico as a reporter and…
Intensity by Dean Koontz ℅ Stephen King & Thomas Harris
Sometimes one discovers new aspects to a book, or even in this case an audiobook, upon second reading. Or rather, find you’ve had the same unsettling…
One of a Kind: Charlie Huston and The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
Author Charlie Huston doesn’t seem capable of writing quiet or cautious fiction. Surprising would be the word I’d use when it comes to experiencing or explaining his work (and…
The Cartel – Winslow’s Chef d’oeuvre
In late 2009 I’d finally caught, up with the best novel, in my opinion, author Don Winslow had written to that point, The Power of the…
Reprise: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Audiobook)
In general, I’ve come to believe that as great as some notable novels are, written through the decades by talented authors (and I’ve only read a…
Steven Hart & The Last Three Miles
To say the least, writer and journalist Steven Hart has a way with words. A good example of that is how he used them for the…
Reblogged: ‘Just My Type – A Book About Fonts’ by Simon Garfield – NYTimes.com
Reblogged: ‘Just My Type – A Book About Fonts’ by Simon Garfield – NYTimes.com. Having finished Just My Type, an entertaining look at the things we take…
Stephen, Carrie, Chloë and Sissy
Admittedly, I became hooked on horror as a pre-teen watching movies at home and on the big screen. Later, it’d be friends at work who’d turn me on to Stephen King,…
Friday Forgotten Bo… Novella: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
By the year 1982, as mentioned, I’d read all author Stephen King‘s novels, including his Hugo Award winning non-fiction work Danse Macabre. For the most part in chronological order,…
Reblogged » Jen’s Book Thoughts: Summer Shorts 2014 – Peter Berkrot
Jen’s Book Thoughts: Summer Shorts 2014 – Peter Berkrot One of my favorite bloggers is at it again with a marvelous interview and highlight. With June…
Ken Bruen’s Purgatory
As someone who has come to enjoy crime fiction, it’s no surprise I have my favorites. Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, among the ageless.…
Reprise » Muy Bruen
Some years ago, with encouragement by my friends Jen Forbus and Corey Wilde, I finally took the plunge and dived into a novel by author Ken Bruen. I reserve the right to insert…
It Rains... You Get Wet 