This one’s for Martha … Nothing like a good book to get the rabble-rousers going. In Field Of Dreams, Ray Kinsella’s wife, played by Amy Madigan, successfully shuts down the effort to ban Terence Mann’s books from the local Iowa school system. Terence Mann – played by James Earl Jones – was based on J.D….
It’s spring, that magical time of year when the flowers bloom, birds sing, and school libraries publish the list of books most frequently banned or attempted to be banned. This year’s list is a mixture of new best sellers and timeless classics. You’ve got your Hunger Games, your To Kill a Mockingbird, your Brave New…
Brian Bendis has bagged a book deal outside of comics – sort of, plus more behind the scenes at HARRY‘S LAW with Nate Corddry and SYFY bags monster ratings with one finale. http://p.castfire.com/cf_player.swf The Point Radio is on the air right now – 24 hours a day of pop culture fun for FREE. GO HERE…
DURING MARCH: BUY ONE FIGHT CARD NOVEL GET ONE FREE! DURING MARCH: BUY ONE FIGHT CARD NOVEL GET ONE FREE! During the month of March, if you buy Fight Card: Felony Fists from Amazon.com you can get Fight Card: The Cutman for FREE, or visa-versa, buy Fight Card: The Cutman from Amazon.com and get Fight…
DURING MARCH: BUY ONE FIGHT CARD NOVEL GET ONE FREE! DURING MARCH: BUY ONE FIGHT CARD NOVEL GET ONE FREE! During the month of March, if you buy Fight Card: Felony Fists from Amazon.com you can get Fight Card: The Cutman for FREE, or visa-versa, buy Fight Card: The Cutman from Amazon.com and get Fight…
To celebrate the upcoming release of The Descendants to Blu-ray and DVD March 13, author Kaui Hart Hemmings will be participating in a special Featured Author Group Chat on social media network GoodReads next Tuesday. GoodReads members can join the group and be notified when it officially starts and begin submitting questions. If not a…
COMPLIMENTS OF THE BLACK STILETTO… A Review of Raymond Benson’s THE BLACK STILETTO by Andrew Salmon Raymond Benson’s The Black Stiletto (Oceanview Publishing) has a lot going for it but the sum is not quite equal to the parts that make up the novel. The set up is an intriguing one. Judy Talbot is an…
ALL PULP REVIEWS- by Ron Fortier ANTIQUES DISPOSAL A Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery Barbara Allan Kensington Books 230 pages Vivian Borne is an eccentric antiques dealer who lives in Serenity, a small Midwestern town situated on the banks of the Mississippi river. She lives with her daughters, Peggy Sue and Brandy. Together Vivian and Brandy…
My friend, Goldie, said, “I’m reading the best book. You would love it.” I was skeptical. My friend, Goldie, usually likes different kinds of books than I do. She likes historical novels with a sense of place. She enjoys literary fiction, with Serious and Important themes. Still, she is my friend, and I was curious….
The Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast got its Crunch By Marty Gitlin and Topher Ellis Abrams Image. Hardcover. 368 pages. $19.95 Come breakfast time, my kitchen cabinet holds a limited, and boring, offering of ready-to-eat cereals; just some Kellogg’s Raisin Bran and a box of Honey-Nut Cheerios. In my mid-fifties, breakfast cereal no longer…
TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Reviews of All Things Pulp by Tommy Hancock BEEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS Laurie R. King Bantam Books (Random House) It seems every company, large and small, comic and print, audio and video, so on and so forth, has a Holmes product these days. Most of them deal with Sherlock directly, but many also veer…
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: The Expanded Visual Dictionary By Jason Fry DK Publishing, 104 pages, $19.99 Timed for the 3-D release of the most reviled movie in the six film set, it might be appropriate to take this opportunity to reassess the first installment in the modern era trilogy. Jason Fry, a DK veteran,…
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