reviews

Burning with love... Author:  Monica Hesse You might not even know it’s there.  It's just a narrow spit of land, separating Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic Ocean and making up the easternmost portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Known as the Eastern Shore, it’s attached to Maryland at the northern end and to the rest of Virginia by the 23 mile long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel at the southern end.  Rural and isolated, it’s always been a unique place of which even many Virginians aren’t aware.  It gained a brief moment of notoriety in November 2012 when abandoned houses starting burning [...]

Pure evil... Author:  Cormac McCarthy It seems like an overly simplistic cop out.  When a movie or novel’s protagonist comes face to face with pure unadulterated evil, it leaves reality and slides into fantasy.   Often much to its detriment.   So it was with this kind of skepticism that I took the plunge into Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.  Would this just be another work, chronicling the horrors of unfathomable evil? While hunting in western Texas, near the Rio Grande, young Llewelyn Moss spots three trucks on the desolate plains.   Further inspection reveals a collection of recently dead bodies, [...]

Jaine Austen Sleeps with the Stink Fishes Author: Laura Levine Ready for a romp in the tropics, Jaine Austen thinks she’s finally hit the big time and can escape from Toilet Masters (in a rush to flush) into the glamorous world of TV authorship in Death of a Bachelorette. Her chance has come, at last, with Some Day My Prince Will Come – a sleazy reality TV show featuring a daft and very distant heir to the British throne, one word extraordinaire Spencer Dalworth VII, and a cast of busty babes looking to marry rich. Jaine’s job: enjoy the sumptuous TV producing [...]