Honey Badger Don’t Care: Randall’s Guide to Crazy Nastyass Animals by Randall – Book Review

Honey Badger Don't Care by Randall

If you haven’t already, meet the Honey Badger, voiced by Randall. Dubbed the “Crazy Nastyass”, this fearless creature fights all kinds of wild life in order to eat and take whatever it wants, and basically takes no shit off anyone and doesn’t give a shit about anything. In this book, he basically gives us the lowdown on  other ugly, [...]

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Out of Twenty: Alex George, Author of The Good American, Answers Six Questions

Alex George, Author of A Good American

In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer!  It is early days in 2012 reading, but already Alex George’s A Good American stands out as a favorite for the [...]

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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey – Book Review

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

In Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child, Jack and Mabel are a middle-aged married couple who have moved to Alaska in the 1920′s to attempt the successful farming of a homestead. The land is harsh and unforgiving, and though it is of their own choosing, the couple is isolated from family, and have made no friends in the tiny [...]

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Literary Feasts – Running the Rift, by Naomi Benaron

lamb chops with peas and potatoes

Naomi Benaron’s Running the Rift takes place in Rwanda and a  lot of the staple foods were unfamiliar to me, with the exception of a few vegetables. All of the food sounded delicious, and I took to the internet to look some of it up. Isombe is a stew made of cassava leaves, fresh vegetables, peanuts and peanut [...]

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Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron – Book Review

Running The Rift by Naomi Benaron

The complexities and tragedies of Rwanda and the Tutsi-Hutu tensions are intricately and beautifully captured in Naomi Benaron’s emotionally stirring debut, Running the Rift. Jean Patrick Nkuba is a young Tutsi boy who loves his family, excelling at his studies and running with his brother. A school visit from an award-winning  runner awakens Olympic dreams in Jean-Patrick, but his world begins to [...]

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The Woman In Black – Movie Trailer

 Just about two years ago I read Susan Hill’s novella The Man In the Picture. I had some issues with the novella format, and though the story was creepy, I wanted more detail and resolution in the plot. The soon to be released The Woman In Black  is based on a novella  by Susan Hill and this trailer [...]

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Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer – Book Review

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder by Marissa Meyer, is the story of a half-cyborg girl adopted by a businessman, but left in guardianship of his wife when he dies suddenly. Cinder lives with her stepmother, Adri,  and stepsisters, Peony and Pearl, in the kingdom of New Beijing. Though she has a strong relationship with Peony, her place in the household is precarious due to the resentment filled relationship [...]

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Book Trailer: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

I’m still a little hazy on what book trailers are supposed to accomplish and who they are for. I usually only watch them after I have read a book since I like to form my own opinions before entertaining any others. The trailer for Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook is not what I expected it to be at all. [...]

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The Demi-Monde Winter by Rod Rees – Book Review

The Demi-Monde Winter by Rod Rees

Ella Thomas is a down on her luck eighteen-year-old – just days away from not being able to pay rent – when she auditions for a gig as a jazz singer. After completing of a rigorous interview process she finds out that she has been recruited by an arm of the military for an assignment that only she [...]

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Out Of Twenty: Alex Gilvarry, Author of From The Memoirs of A Non-Enemy Combatant, Answers Six Questions

Alex Gilvarry by Beowulf Sheehan

In this version of twenty questions, I send a list of questions to a willing victim author and they choose their own interview by choosing which questions, and how many questions, they want to answer!  Right now I am thoroughly enjoying  Alex Gilvarry’s funny (and you know I don’t say this lightly)and poignant debut From the [...]

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