A large percentage of science fiction writing is tied to some kind of apocalyptic event. And a large portion of the daily news actually portends such an event (for a lighter look, read The...
Tony Jaa in Ong Bak 2 After Ong Bak, then The Protector, we’ve been waiting for the next from muay thai martial arts expert Tony Jaa. Already released in December in Thailand, Ong Bak...
Two authors named Christopher write not only good plot lines with enjoyable characters but are also able to make me laugh out loud: Christopher Moore (author of Lamb), and Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday,...
My family and I visited Galveston this past weekend, our first sojourn there after Hurricane Ike hit them and us in September. Our plans were to visit the Strand for some shopping, dine at...
Of the three main young adult series I have read (Twilight and Potter being the other two), Riordan’s is faster paced, funnier and brings out more history/mythology than the other two. Very enjoyable and...
In this third book in the series, Thalia, daughter of Zeus, brought back to health by the Golden Fleece (her essence was put into a tree after she saved Luke and Annabeth, two other...
The Sea of Monsters is the second book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. Notes on the first book, The Lightning Thief, can be found here. Notes on the next book in the series,...
Ultimate Kudos: Lamb by Christopher Moore I occasionally snicker when reading, often smile. But rarely do I bust out laughing. I did it once reading the drill sergeant scene in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s...
Since it is a British web site, it was undoubtedly one of the five and a half readers of my novel in the UK, but someone nominated my novel for the AmazonClicks.com Reader’s Choice...
The novel is one of a series featuring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, a white day laborer and a black gay man who end up solving gruesome and violent crimes in East Texas. Both...
