![]() ![]() One thing that struck me as soon as I started reading Simon Okill’s new novel was how much it felt like a film. I probably watch more comedy films than I read comedy novels. I like comedies and humour but rarely buy books that are exclusively humour. I don’t read a particular type of novel (or even only fiction, although it is my predilection) exclusively and I normally see what tickles my fancy at the time of choosing a book, although once decided I’ll usually stick to it. Nobody Loves a Bigfoot Like a Bigfoot Babe by Simon Okill I hope you enjoy the reviews, they convince you to read the books and don’t forget to CLICK! Now it’s available in Amazon and I can say that it was worth the wait. I met Mack Payne through social media a few months back when he was in the process of reviewing his memoirs and he kindly offered to send me a copy when it was ready. The other is the review of a Vietnam Veteran’s Memoirs. Now I’ve had a chance to read his book and I thought I’d bring you my review and of course a link to his novel. If you remember he was my guest not too long ago and one of the writers from the group ASMSG. ![]()
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![]() You can make lego mini-figs and read comics. Here is where you can find all your Minecraft needs from mods to skins. ![]() I only have the building game, but it’s cool. I think my favorite part would have to be when they were trying to disarm the bombs and couldn’t find the last one and found out a certain primate had it. However, some parts of the story remain rather secretive, but are also kind of revealed. It is also fun when you hear a little bit about a certain characters past. My thoughts are that the story is realistic, but still mysterious and fun. ![]() Together they face foes such as the smuggler Noah Blackwood, Grace’s evil grandfather, and Butch McCall his fierce henchman. Other accomplices are Laura Lee, Wolfe’s sweetheart, Luther, Marty’s orange-headed friend, Former Air Force officer Phil and Bertha Bishop, his wife who knows 100 ways to kill somebody with her bare hands. The story is about cousins Marty O’Hara, a cook, bookworm Grace Wolfe and Grace’s father Wolfe. This ship, the Coelacanth, has a bad past with pirates. The story unfolds on a ship that is on a mission to find a giant squid, also known as Architeuthis. Tentacles takes place in the sea by a flooded canyon. Can they capture the giant squid in time? And what about the dinosaurs below deck? ![]() However, Noah Blackwood an evil but popular scientist tries to sabotage their mission. Marty and his friends are setting sail to find one of the most fearsome sea beasts of them all, the giant squid. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an optical illusion, first noticed and described by astronomers. Mercury retrograde therefore refers to a period of time in which the planet Mercury appears to - but doesn’t actually - move backward. Retrograde is an adjective that means backward, and you wouldn’t say “Mercury in backward,” would you? No. ![]() Here’s what astrologers say it means, and when to look out for it in the year ahead.įirst, let’s make sure we get this part right: Sometimes people mistakenly refer to this concept as “Mercury in retrograde,” which bothers the more die-hard astrology enthusiasts. And yet, Mercury retrograde remains a persuasive astrological concept for many. There is no good reason to believe that Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, might impact individual human behavior here on Earth. The answer, according to science, is nothing. Now, if you’ve ever heard a co-worker attribute their actions to “Mercury being retrograde” and wondered what the hell the solar system has to do with Stephanie’s inability to answer an email, that’s a fair question. If you’ve recently had one of those days when nothing seems to go according to plan, we have good news: You can blame Mercury retrograde, which is happening until May 14. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In one sense, this book is a bildungsroman. All Things Left Wild is a great literary debut, and I am genuinely unsurprised it has won awards.Ĭonsidering the book on its own, James Wade’s literary debut, All Things Left Wild, is a fast-paced and grim Western, upheld (not sprinkled!) by poetic-philosophic-literary-religious allusions and concerns that make this book something, in my view, a bit more special than your average genre fiction. There will likely be some light spoilers but read the books anyways. I went and purchased his first novel, All Things Left Wild, and was interested in two things: the book as its’ entity and the book alongside his third novel. My experience with Wade's novels is randomly finding his most recent novel, Beasts of The Earth, reading it, loving it, and deciding to read his previous two stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s complicated about the 1990s is that the central illusion is memory itself.” It’s a potentially interesting conceit, but by the book’s final chapters it functions to protect the most clichéd representations of the ’90s and dismiss critics who view it as a politically troubling decade.Ī reader might not pick up on this sleight of hand right away. Klosterman discloses this in the book’s opening pages: “There’s always a disconnect between the world we seem to remember and the world that actually was. not necessarily the way they happened.”Ĭhuck Klosterman’s The Nineties: A Book takes Fred’s oblique aphorism as its mantra: Klosterman wants to remember the ’90s his own way, not necessarily the way they happened. At one point an investigating officer from the Los Angeles Police Department asks Fred why he doesn’t own a camcorder - this being the ’90s - and he answers: “I like to remember things my own way. A mysterious videotape appears on their doorstep with camcorder footage showing them sleeping in their beds, filmed by an unknown stalker. In David Lynch’s Lost Highway, LA jazz musician Fred Madison and his wife Renee are haunted by malevolent forces they cannot see or name. Review of The Nineties: A Book, by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press, 2022) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In researching my book, Prophecy of the Heir, a literary apologetics novel that spans the entire Old Testament through angelic and demonic eyes, I discovered what I believe is a sound defense for God’s actions, which I hope will help those who struggle with this subject matter. ![]() Are the critics of the Old Testament and Christianity in general correct when they accuse God of genocide and of slaughtering those who don’t worship Him? How do we as apologists reconcile the God of love with an alleged religious bigot and racist ethnic cleanser? Not only have some people rejected Christianity over this, but it has even spurred some Christians to leave the faith. Many people take issue with the idea that God commanded the Jewish nation to initiate war against the Canaanites, ordering them to wipe them out and take their land for their own. ![]() ![]() ![]() I bought this as a Kindle special and bought the 2nd book in the series at full price as soon as I finished this one. If you want engaging material, then look no further. But overall, the pacing is just well done. I did like the characters and though the detective was particularly interesting. I’m glad that I finally bit the bullet and bought the book because the authors – it’s actually two – do a great job weaving the politics into the plot without dragging out the story. I watched the first couple of episodes of the TV series and hesitated to read the books because I was not interested in reading about palace intrigues and politicking. ![]() If you get past nit-picking the technological and astrophysics details, then you can settle back and enjoy the ride. ![]() I hate to follow the crowd with my reading choices so I was slow to try the expanse series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writer Len Wein and legendary horror artist Bernie Wrightson, the original creators of the most complex creature in comics weave a haunting tale of man and monster in one impressive Absolute Edition! Collects House of Secrets #92 and Swamp Thing #1-13 Feared as a monster, hailed as a god, by turns wonderfully benevolent and pitiless in his wrath, the Swamp Thing has carved his unique niche in the American Landscape. ![]() He has become a modern legend, this mysterious creature of the Louisiana bayou. A Man! A Monster! A Legend! Lein Wein and Bernie Wrightson's monumental and chilling take on the Guardian of the Green is collected in one giant Absolute Edition! Writer Len Wein and legendary horror artist Bernie Wrightson, the o. ![]() ![]() ![]() The dedication to Gently with the Painters reads as: “To the Norwich Twenty Group of Painters, who suggested, but are not portrayed as, the Palette Group of the novel.” Read more about the Norwich Twenty Group on Wikipedia here. This cover from the 1963 Pan Books paperback edition is a suitable macabre substitute. I could not locate a copy of the dust jacket of the original 1960 hardcover edition from Cassell. Gently sees the case differently and begins to investigate the other artists of the group who each have their eccentricities and secrets to hide. The artist was the sole female member of a local artist's collective and although estranged from her husband, she would not grant him a divorce. ![]() Gently with the Painters is a return to form for the Scotland Yard CID Central Office Inspector, after the previous investigation in Gently in the Sun (Gently #6 - 1959) which I reviewed as Not My Gently.Īs usual, Gently is called in to a Norwich provincial investigation where the local authorities can't seem to build a sufficient case against their prime suspect, the husband of a murdered artist. ![]() ![]() They were a compromise with the truth and he had automatically distrusted them his way was to assemble the facts and to hold them suspended in his mind, where, by a sort of alchemy, they eventually moved into a pattern. Here, again, he was making a discovery – he, in his approach to a case, had never drawn up accounts of this kind. Review of the Constable Kindle eBook edition (2011) of the Cassell hardcover original (1960). ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories are set in Shadyside, a made-up East Coast city in the US. During this time, other spin-off series that are set in the same city were also released.Īfter then, the series took a break, until Stine came back with new books in the early 2000s. The Fear Street series initially debuted in the late 1980s and ran through the 1990s. I have created this guide to help guide you in the order to read these books. It can be quite overwhelming to have 158 books to read. A place where danger is lurking around every corner. This series takes place in the fictional city of Shadyside in the US. However, these films don’t adapt any of the classic books, instead, they take elements from these books and turn them into a movie. ![]() There has been a sudden surge in popularity for this series due to the Netflix film trilogy in 2021. ![]() The Fear Street books are a young adult horror fiction series that is composed of many series and is over 100 books long, that has been published across four decades. ![]() |