reviews

Hollywood Hijinks Author: Charles Rosenberg Ah, Hollywood.  We do love to hate you, with your lavish lifestyles, petty bickering, and high priced attorneys.  We hate them, too, of course, but without the love part.  So why would anyone choose to write a mystery about a high priced Hollywood attorney defending a studio in a petty bickering session and his ethically challenged new associate?  You got me, but author Charles Rosenberg does just that in Write to Die. His main protagonist is attorney Rory Calburton.  Rory is a new partner in his entertainment firm and is in charge of a plagiarism [...]

Sympathy for the devil? Author:  Ted Levin Rattlesnake defenders.  There may be no smaller minority in America.   But despite the deeply seated terror they generate for the average human, naturalist Ted Levin is a devoted fan of all things rattlesnake.  And there may be no snake more in need of a robust defense than the timber rattler.  Once ubiquitous throughout eastern North America, Crotalus horridus has suffered ceaselessly as humans have waged an astonishingly cruel war on this remarkable – and surprisingly docile – species.   America’s Snake is Levin’s passionate and determined appeal for an immediate cessation of hostilities.  Before [...]

Absolutely Foul Author: Sophia Bar-Lev I hated this book.  Every wretched page of it.  If you just want an easy summary of my feelings, there you go.  You can put down The Silver Locket, never read it, and rest easy. A little more depth, you say?  It’s an anti-abortion book in sheep’s clothing.  That not your thing?  You can stop reading now and find something else to do – play solitaire, do laundry, watch reality TV.  If that is your thing, you’re going to hate me, so you might as well stop reading, too. So basically, I’m writing this for [...]