Verdict: 5 Stars There are some jobs you just don't want to have. You don't want to be the advertising agency's superstar laxative account genius, you don't want to be the technology-challenged associate who accidentally fires an executive with one wrong keystroke, and you certainly don't want to go to work one day as a forty-six-year-old creative who gets fired by mistake, … [Read more...] about eBook Review: Making It by Helen Klein Ross
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eBook Review: Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Verdict: 5 STars Finally. FINALLY. A romance title for the rest of us, one with the right blend of emotion and raw physicality but whose female main character isn't a spineless self-doubter who falls down a lot. Move over, 50 Shades of Grey, there's a sexy new power couple for readers to swoon over. Chloe Mills is only months away from finishing her MBA from a prestigious … [Read more...] about eBook Review: Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Book Review: Gia & Lincoln’s Aggravating Allergies by Rowena Cala
Verdict: 4 Stars It might seem easy to review a children's a book. After all, it's only twenty pages and it's mostly pictures, right? Wrong. In some ways, a children's author has a more difficult task in the writing due to that limited space. Unless the author is also the illustrator, there is another creative professional with a hand in the story whose effort is equally … [Read more...] about Book Review: Gia & Lincoln’s Aggravating Allergies by Rowena Cala
eBook Review: Vintage Tomorrows by James H Carrott and Brian David Johnson
Verdict: 4.5 Stars Judging from how hard it is for an author to write and publish a book, it's quite possibly exponentially harder for two authors to write and publish a book. That difficulty might only be compounded when one of those authors is a historian and the other earns his keep as a futurist. In Vintage Tomorrows: A Historian and a Futurist Journey Through Steampunk … [Read more...] about eBook Review: Vintage Tomorrows by James H Carrott and Brian David Johnson
eBook Review: I’ll Take What She Has by Samantha Wilde
Verdict: 2 Stars One of the saddest disappointments in reading is to wait longingly for a book based on its author's merits, only to have it turn out wretchedly. Unfortunately, I'll Take What She Has is the epitome of such a book. Truthfully, it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the book is full of angst and discontent, as its title suggests. Despite its easy to … [Read more...] about eBook Review: I’ll Take What She Has by Samantha Wilde
eBook Review: Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson
Verdict: 5 Stars It's been nearly six years since fans of the Newberry Honor book Hattie Big Sky closed the covers on the story of a sixteen-year-old orphan who tried--and ultimately, failed--to make a success of the Montana homestead claim left to her by a long lost uncle. We cried right alongside her as the hail storm destroyed the crops she needed in order to pay off the … [Read more...] about eBook Review: Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson
eBook Review: Love Unscripted by Tina Reber
Verdict: 4 Stars When I approached hybrid author Tina Reber for our interview a couple of weeks ago at an event in the Simon&Schuster offices, she took one look at my camera and called out, "No paparazzi!" I was confused, until I read her once-self-published romance, Love Unscripted. Her title, which was picked up and re-released by Atria Books, presents a very … [Read more...] about eBook Review: Love Unscripted by Tina Reber
New eBook: The Web, a Multilingual Encyclopedia by Marie Lebert
Paris-based Marie Lebert has just published this new encyclopedia on Project Gutenberg. You can find it, in many formats, here. It's a most interesting work and contains a lot of information that is new to me. A great reference work. Here is the Table of Contents: 1974 > The internet “took off” 1990 > The invention of the web 1990 > The LINGUIST List 1991 > … [Read more...] about New eBook: The Web, a Multilingual Encyclopedia by Marie Lebert
eBook Review: The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks by Gillian Royes
Verdict: 4 Stars Part mystery, part expose', and part travelogue, The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks (Atria) is the second book from Gillian Royes featuring the bartender Shadrack from Largo Bay, Jamaica. Every bit as suspenseful as the first book, this second fiction titles from Royes takes the reader places--both geographical and spiritual--that he never expected. When … [Read more...] about eBook Review: The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks by Gillian Royes
eBook Review: Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless
Verdict: 5 Stars Reading about the abuse that others have endured, especially abuse that they suffered as children at the hands of a near-evil parent, is rarely an enjoyable voyeuristic pastime. But Wendy Lawless' Chanel Bonfire (Gallery Books) is written with such an eloquence and with such masterful storytelling, that it draws the reader into her childhood and her … [Read more...] about eBook Review: Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless