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Review: Death And Other Taxes by Robby Miller

Because he died before his time, the teen protagonist of this wildly imaginative fantasy/sci-fi novel ends up in the special part of the afterlife reserved for lost things. He is meant to wait there until his proper time to die. Wit, as he is called in the afterlife, finds himself sharing this peculiar sort of purgatory with all manner of lost things—not just children. Buttons, socks, religion (“people are losing their religion all the time, right?”) and more turn up there as well. Wit, however, is unwilling to accept that he is dead and immediately sets about trying to find […]

Avery Hurt2014-05-05T21:24:36+02:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Rise Against The Game By Tia Reiss

At least since the first Taoist masters cavorted in China’s misty mountains, people have been trying to find ways to live more authentic and joyful lives. They have been trying with varying degrees of success to work out just what it takes to be free.

In this short, punchy essay, Tia Reiss, a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and Reiki Master, who describes herself as a mystic and a scientist, argues that we are all naturally equipped with the ability to live authentic lives, but are constrained by social rules, expectations, and judgments. She calls these constraints The Game. The […]

Avery Hurt2014-05-05T21:25:42+02:00October 23rd, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Taking Flight By Stephen Tritto

When Anthony Bartolo, a successful product manager loses his high-powered job in New York, a turn of events propels him to post-war El Salvador and a head-on collision with cultural differences, leaving him in danger of losing his life – and his marriage – as he uncovers a secret about his friend nobody saw coming.

This is a big read, set in both New York’s well-to-do Hempstead crowd, going onto El Salvador. As Anthony discovers he is socially outcast from the industry that he had dedicated his life to, his wife and friends seems to disengage also, until he realizes […]

Cate Baum2014-05-05T21:32:18+02:00October 22nd, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Men's Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Uptown by J. T. Riggen

Uptown by J. T. Riggen is a crime thriller telling a story of three parts: Mark Kennedy, now ex-detective doing a life sentence for a brutal mob massacre in conjunction with an underworld comrade in the spirit of what he considers rightful justice; Will Sutherland, working detective looking to do the right thing in a job that looks straight in the eyes of atrocity and the daily horrors of corruption, dirty money and innocent blood; and Rachel Davis, a girl about to face the dark side of the real and adult world on her first steps away from her privileged […]

James Grimsby2014-05-05T21:33:19+02:00October 11th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Crossroads Blues By Israfel Sivad

Crossroads Blues by Israfel Sivad is set in New York City, days before 9/11, where three friends, writer Andrew, his friend Charlie and wannabe theater director Michelle are entwined in a life in the skyline, filled with hopes, dreams and ambitions. But then the planes hit and their lives are shattered forever, when Michelle is lost to the Towers, leaving Andrew lost in grief.

The interesting thing for me with this book is that I am married to a New Yorker who lived blocks from The World Trade Center on 9/11, and has written a fictional book featuring 9/11 (We […]

Cate Baum2014-05-05T21:35:14+02:00October 11th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Literary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Sammi By W. D. County

Sammi by W. D. County follows the world’s first fully intelligent android, created under the watchful eye of the United States government, and classified top secret as a hidden weapon against the foes of democracy and capitalism. He is perfect in every way: stronger, faster and more capable than any human, and with all the advantages of the most sophisticated computer system in the modern world in a lifelike chassis. The only flaw with his design? He was created too intelligent, and too aware, and his emotions are beginning to prove a serious problem in his work. The world’s first […]

James Grimsby2019-08-12T11:16:41+02:00September 28th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Global Economic Boom & Bust Cycles By Khafra K. Om-Ra-Seti

Global Economic Boom & Bust Cycles: The Great Depression and Recovery of the 21st Century by Khafra K. Om-Ra-Seti is an essay on the economic crises and recoveries of recent years and the predictions of the author of where these circumstances will lead us in the near future, what must change and what has lead us to this situation.

The book predicts a “major global economic collapse” within the next few years that will lead into a period of difficulty that will eventually produce a renovation of the economy similar to previous boom-bust cycles in the past and argues its […]

James Grimsby2019-01-22T17:17:05+02:00September 24th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Economics Book Reviews|

Review: Organize This! By Vali G. Heist

Comedian George Carlin pointed out that “A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” In recent years it seems that the average American single-family house (a house that has grown from under a thousand square feet in 1950 to over 2000 square feet in recent decades) is no longer big enough keep all that stuff while we are out buying more. According to the Self Storage Association, there are currently over 50,000 self-storage facilities in the United States. Most of these rental units are used to store the overflow from […]