Archive for the ‘My Reviews’ Category

Book Review: Every First Saturday

Every First Saturday
Bobby Jaye Allen
Accolade Books, 2002
ISBN 0971208204
Trade Paperback
Set in a small college town in Ohio, this is a tale of the murder of the campus golden girl during the week before Homecoming.В  Cy Sweetly seemed to have it all—beauty, charisma, brains, a future of wealth and fame, but there is little sorrow shown [...]

July 26, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: A Penny for Your Thoughts by Mindy Starns Clark

A Penny for Your Thoughts
Mindy Starns Clark
Harvest House Publishers
July 2002
ISBN 0736909923
Callie Webber has a job she loves. Experienced as a private investigator and attorney, she is now employed by the J.O.S.H.U.A. Foundation to investigate the integrity, including financial activity, of nonprofit organizations in which her philanthropist boss is interested. He then decides whether to make [...]

July 7, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Safe Beginnings by Christine Duncan

Safe Beginnings
Christine Duncan
Treble Heart Books
July 2002
ISBN 1931742855
Reviewed by Lelia Taylor
Kaye Berreano is the counselor on duty at Beginnings, a battered women’s shelter, when the fire alarm goes off. Kaye hurries to get all the women and their children out of the building but Mary Ellen, a woman apparently disliked by nearly everyone, doesn’t make [...]

July 2, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Mouse in the Mountain by Norbert Davis

The Mouse in the Mountain
Norbert Davis
The Rue Morgue Press, 2001
ISBN 0915230410
Reviewed by Lelia Taylor
Originally published in 1943, this first entry in the Doan and Carstairs series is unexpected in the world of the hardboiled PI novel. As the new publishers explained in their foreword, Norbert Davis introduced humor into this subgenre at a time [...]

June 28, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Maximum Ride #1: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Maximum Ride #1: The Angel Experiment
James Patterson
Read by Evan Rachel Wood
Hachette Audio, 2008
ISBN 160024226X
Abridged Audio Book
The Flock is a group of six kids who were an experiment from before birth, genetically engineered to have wings.В  Led by Max, a fourteen-year-old girl, the six have escaped but are being pursued by another group of kids whose [...]

May 31, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Icebound by Dean Koontz

Icebound
Dean Koontz
Read by Paul Michael
Random House Audio, 2007
ISBN 0739341413
Unabridged Audio Book
A scientific team in the Arctic icefield is conducting an experiment and has just finished laying sixty explosive charges, scheduled to detonate at midnight, when a completely unexpected tidal wave hits and breaks off a huge piece of ice.В  Unfortunately, the scientists are marooned on [...]

May 27, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
Alan Bradley
Read by Jayne Entwistle
Random House Audio, March 2010
ISBN 0307576418
Unabridged Audio Book
Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old with a near-genius mind, apparently has way too much time, and too much curiosity, for a child who is benignly neglected by her father and ignored, at best, by her disdainful and tormenting [...]

May 17, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Review: Thereby Hangs a Tail

Thereby Hangs a Tail
Spencer Quinn
Narrated by Jim Frangione
Recorded Books, January 2010
Downloaded Unabridged Audio Book
Bernie and Chet run the Little Detective Agency, Bernie being a human P.I. always a bit, or a lot, behind with the bills, and Chet being a four-legged dude who had to drop out of K-9 school.В  Together, they make a savvy [...]

March 22, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  No Comments

Review: UR

UR
Stephen King
Simon & Schuster Audio, February 2010
ISBN 1442303093
Unabridged Audio Book
Read by Holter Graham
An English professor named Wesley gets dumped by his girlfriend and is driven by despair to purchase a Kindle although he has never wanted one.В  Strange things start to happen, beginning with the fact that it arrives by express mail although Wesley didn’t [...]

March 15, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: My Reviews  2 Comments

Review: Stirring Up Strife

Stirring Up Strife
Jennifer Stanley
Minotaur Books, January 2010
ISBN 0312376855
Mass Market Paperback
Cooper Lee is a bit unusual in that she repairs copy machines for a living, something that’s normally done by men, but in other ways she’s just like many other people—attempting to recover from a bad breakup, living with her parents to try to get her [...]

March 13, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews  No Comments