Diane 317 knew something was terribly wrong with her peaceful home. The tremors aboard the Cradle, a space station orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth, were worsening. When Diane’s home began plummeting to Earth, she sought safety in an escape pod. The devastation of the crashed fortress was a potential gold mine to junkies, the wasteland scavengers. […]
Review: Seattle Book Review – 5 stars CarboN: The Primitivision is the premiere art book by Lawrence Armondo Hodge (aka CarboN). His new book is a collection of CarboN’s work from 1989 to 2021. This Bay Area native drew his inspiration from many cultures, styles, and art genres. As viewers flip through the pages of […]
Oh, help, I thought, less than a third of the way into this book, I’m reading poetry. It was not a complaint; far from it. Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes […]
Happy Doll, the former cop, is trying to eke out a living as a private detective. The business hasn’t been great, so he’s anxious to meet his new client. When the young woman, Mary, walks in the door, she brings Happy’s past along. She’s the daughter of a woman, Ines, whom Happy had loved deeply […]
Betty White’s Pearls of Wisdom almost seems intrusive to read, as it is about the personal and intimate relationship the author and her family had with Betty, and the twelve pearls of wisdom are stories, humanitarian acts, and personality traits that may or may not have been known about Betty in her personal life. Each […]
After her wealthy husband suddenly left her, Alyssa Macallan was drowning her sorrows in a hotel bar. She picked the spot specifically because no one in her social circles would ever set foot in a place like that. But just when she needed a friend most, one appeared. Seeming to also have problems she wanted […]
Eric Ross and his two daughters are on the run, living out of motels as they try to escape their secrets. Eric comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, which is known to the locals as The Spite House because Peter Masson built it just to spite those around him. All […]
If you really like Elsa Beskow’s books, you might not like this one, Around the Year, as much. I don’t like it. It’s not as good as the others. It’s all about poetry, but if you like poetry you will probably love it because it seems so poetic. It’s poems about the months of the […]
Our Incredible Library Book (and the Wonderful Journeys It Took) has a somewhat interesting premise, but unfortunately, the execution is somewhat lacking. The rhymes are the main point of it and they are mediocre. The storyline follows a library book and the people who borrow it, detailing how where and how they read it and […]
