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Book Review: Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa, M.D.

Making Rounds with Oscar
David Dosa, M.D.
Hyperion Books, 2010
ISBN 1401323235
Hardcover
This is the true story of Oscar, an ordinary cat from the street with an extraordinary talent.  He knows when a patient is going to die and goes that that person’s bedside to remain with them. Inscrutible like every other feline, we honestly do [...]

June 23, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  One Comment

Book Review: The Ark by Boyd Morrison

The Ark
Boyd Morrison
Read by Boyd Gaines
Simon & Schuster Audio, May 2010
ISBN 1442305126
Unabridged Audio Book
The search for Noah’s Ark has been the goal of archeologists the world over for centuries, even those who consider themselves to be nonbelievers.  Now, her father may have been successful, but archeologist Dilara Kenner knows very little about it other than [...]

June 16, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Scent of the Missing by Susannah Charleson

Scent of the Missing
Susannah Charleson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
ISBN 0547152442
Hardcover
I, too, learned my first lessons about SAR dogs during the Oklahoma bombing. Friends were left in that building and I watched with a mixture of anticipation and dread as dogs and handlers dredged through the broken husk of a building looking for some sign of the [...]

June 12, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Savages by Don Winslow

Savages
Don Winslow
Simon & Schuster, July 13, 2010
ISBN 1439183368
Hardcover (ARC)
Every great company has an origin story, and here is Ben and Chonny’s:

They’re hanging out at the beach, Chon on extended leave between his two hitches, and they’re playing volleyball on the court next to the Hotel Laguna.

Ben and Chon are the [...]

June 7, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: To the Bright and Shining Sun

To the Bright and Shining Sun
James Lee Burke
Hyperion, October 2000.
Originally published by Scribner’s, 1970.
9780786889686
Mass Market
For a moment he thought of forgetting the bus depot. He had almost fifty dollars in his wallet, and that would be enough until he could find some type of job. [...] There was no work at all [...]

May 23, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Greyhound by Steffan Piper

Greyhound
Steffan Piper
AmazonEncore, April 2010
ISBN 0982555091
Trade Paperback
“Greyhound” opens in the darkest hours of the night. Sebastien can’t sleep and soon, he’ll be leaving. His Mother’s getting married for the umpteenth time and he’s not even invited to this ceremony. Dick, the groom du jour, doesn’t like kids and it’s apparent from the hits [...]

May 19, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  2 Comments

Book Review: Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher

Th1rteen  R3asons Why
Jay Asher
Razorbill, 2007
ISBN 1595141715
Hardcover
Imagine you’ve come home and a surprise package is waiting for you.  You’re a high school boy, no money to order anything and it’s not your birthday.  You’re excited opening the book only to discover seven cassette tapes inside.
Cassette tapes — nothing in the house will even play them, but [...]

May 12, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  2 Comments

Chapbook Review: Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi

Judge Sn Goes Golfing
John Scalzi
Subterranean Press, 2009
ISBN 1596062983
Chapbook
Plot Synopsis
Judge Sn does not discriminate. He is equally unpleasant to all sentient beings that make up the universe in this follow up to The Android’s Dream.
Judge Sn is obsessed with the game of golf. He is also truly, monumentally, and historically bad [...]

May 10, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  3 Comments

Book Review: One Man’s Paradise by Douglas Corleone

One Man’s Paradise
Douglas Corleone
Minotaur Books, April 2010
ISBN 0312611587
Hardcover
Attorney Kevin Corvelli totally botched his last case in New York.  It was a murder case, and he was more interested in the media attention than in doing the work he needed to do to win the case.  He lost the case.  His client Brandon Glenn was raped [...]

May 8, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  3 Comments

Book Review: Then Came the Evening by Brian Hart

Then Came the Evening
Brian Hart
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009
9781608190140
ARC from Goodreads‘ First Reads giveaway
Sleep would not come easy this time and he knew it as soon as he blinked and opened his eyes and there was no difference between the two. He began and suffered through an inventory of the reasons why he [...]

May 5, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Full Reviews  5 Comments