reviews

Animals Have Feelings Too? Author:  Barbara J. King Maybe it’s just my egotistical imagination, but it often seems that my cats are happy to see me when I get home from work.  Do they really miss me when I’m gone or do they only view my return as an opportunity for food and belly scratching?  Do they think of me during the day or are they just too busy sunning, stretching and napping?  The scientist in me recognizes that these are difficult questions to answer with confidence, but that doesn’t make the effort to understand animal relationships any less fascinating. [...]

To Hell and Back.  No, really. Author: Richard Kadrey James Stark has been to Hell and back.  Usually when someone says that, it’s figurative.  They’ve had a rough time.  Not for Stark.  He went to Hell.  Now he’s back.  He’s the first living mane to be able to use the phrase literally. Stark is the main character in Sandman Slim (a title that isn’t explained until well over halfway through the book – but it doesn’t matter).  Upon his return from Hell – he arrives in a Los Angeles cemetery lying on a pile of burning debris – he has [...]

Apathy Among Depressives Author: Bill Roorbach I firmly believe that a good dysfunctional family can be an asset to any story. It doesn’t matter the genre – horror, chick lit, cozy mystery – nutcase families with deep, nasty secrets can spice up anything. It even makes parts of Life Among Giants compelling, so clearly it can work miracles. Life Among Giants is author Bill Roorbach’s tale of giants both literal and figurative.  Main character Lizard Hochmeyer (given name David) is a literal giant – we don’t know quite how big, but even as a teenager he is a very, very [...]