How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe
While I have been a tabletop role playing game guy for about a decade, I was unaware of the literary role playing game (LitRPG) subgenre until earlier this year, when I found out friend’s son was publishing LitRPG books under a pen name (Exciting!) LitRPG is, I guess, kind of a narrative fiction in … [Read more]
Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder that Hooked American on True Crime by Joe Pompeo
On September 16, 1922, two bodies are found in a New Jersey park, a man and a woman. They've both been shot and the woman has nearly been decapitated In a sleepy community like this such a crime would naturally cause a commotion, but when it turns out that the deceased are a local minister and a … [Read more]
Codename Charming by Lucy Parker
It has never taken me three days to get past the first 20% of a Lucy Parker novel before. It might be my brain, it might be the book. Regardless, by the end, I was enjoying it very much. Much like Pet and Matthias, Codename Charming and I had a rough start, but we worked it out. Pet De Vere … [Read more]
Sunshine: A Graphic Novel by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Sunshine: A Graphic Novel (with the subtitle of How one camp taught me about life, death, and hope) is not only the follow up to Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel, it is a must read! But have tissues ready for the laughs and especially the tears. This time we follow young JJK … [Read more]
Scout Moore, Junior Ranger: Great Smoky Mountains. by Theresa Howell
Scout Moore is an adventurous kid. She is the head ranger of her own backyard, and one day is ready to take on the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. And Theresa Howell takes Scout, her family and we the reader on an adventure in the picture book Scout Moore, Junior Ranger: Great Smoky Mountains. … [Read more]
Fuzzy Baseball V05: Baseballoween by John Steven Gurney
The series Fuzzy Baseball is known for occasionally breaking the fourth wall, but this time, in Fuzzy Baseball V05: Baseballoween everything is broken! Yes, it is funny, and still has the fantastically clever baseball name puns, but it feels like John Steven Gurney has gotten a few balls to the head … [Read more]
