Book Review: My Dark Places by James Ellroy

My Dark Places James Ellroy Vintage Books, 1997 ISBN 0-679-76205-1 Trade Paperback James Ellroy, prolific Los Angeles crime writer, takes us on a rock-strewn, rutted road through his internal landscape in this memoir, which has at its heart, the loss of his mother to an anonymous murder. This intimate view of the inside of James [...]

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December 31, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments

Book Review: Sex and the Kitty by Nancy the Cat

Sex and the Kitty Nancy the Cat Plume Books, September 2011 ISBN 978-0452-29742-5 Trade Paperback (e-ARC) Nancy’s first memoir—she’ll certainly need more as she gets older and, as she says, she’s leaving the door open for possible sequels—sets the record straight on her birth and early life in a small town as she awaits her [...]

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December 7, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews  2 Comments

Book Review: A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

A Dog’s Purpose W. Bruce Cameron Read by George K. Wilson Tantor Audio, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4001-1645-4 Unabridged Audio Book Also available as a Forge trade paperback A puppy plays in the woods with his mom and his siblings but this is not an entirely idyllic scene. The puppy and his family are feral and the [...]

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October 22, 2011  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews  3 Comments

Book Review: Little Princes by Conor Grennan

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal Conor Grennan William Morrow, January 2011 ISBN 9780061930058 Hardcover Conor Grennan signed up to work in an orphanage in Nepal so that he could, at some point, impress other people with this item on his resume.  He’s pretty up-front about this, as [...]

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March 20, 2011  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Full Reviews  No Comments