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These days, I keep my lawn green using a Miracle Grow spray, but being interested in alternative and “greener” methods of caring for my habitat, I found Marc Remillard’s book, Compost Tea Making, to be quite appealing.
Wow! Has it really been 3 years already? Yep, today marks the day back in 2008 when I decided to start a review blog for Lulu.com authors. And look how we’ve grown in such a short time.
When travelling, kids don’t want to see things, they want to do things. Scavenger Guides Chicago addresses that need by offering a guidebook designed and written for kids. This guidebook is meant to be used more than consulted and, ideally, become a lasting memento of a trip to the windy city. Challenges and questions about popular top tourist sites and activities encourage involvement. A travel guide, game, journal, photography course, and souvenir all in one.
When I first started reading Lance Carbuncle’s Grundish and Askew, I thought about those funny antacid commercials where the chicken wing or the pasta fights back by slapping the person in the face. I felt like this book was slapping me in the face because I couldn’t believe what I was reading at times. Grundish and Askew are best friends – two backwoods hillbilly redneck trailer trash good ole boys.
Cypress Lake has been labeled a “coming of age” story, and I can certainly see why after reading it but Joe Basara digs just a bit deeper into the psyche of his lead character, Owen Cloud, to attempt to give his reader much more than that.
Love and Loyalty (and other tales) by Maria Savva
A fabulous collection of stories that unearth the many facets of the human condition. They made me laugh, cry and certainly surprised me. Each story has a great hook and pulls you in until the end and have an easy to read style.
Back on October 19th, 2010, I spotlighted the release of Draculas written by J.A. Conrath, Blake Crouch, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson. The concept was the four of them would write a “real” vampire story together, and they wanted to release it in time for Halloween last year. Since no traditional publisher would ever be able to get a book out in a month, the foursome published it on Kindle. To get the word out, they put their fan base and mailing lists together, sending out advanced ecopies in exchange for reviews posted to Amazon on the day of the release. And it worked! The book spiked to #1 on the Horror Kindle Bestsellers the day of its release, and garnered over 100 reviews the first day. On November 6th, a paperback edition of the book was released through CreateSpace.
All his life Charlie Winger has been climbing. He rose up out of his recidivistic destiny to a successful white collar career, ascended some fascinating and daunting peaks around the world, and overcame prostate cancer. Now, past seventy, he’s taking on the bureaucratic mountain of gaining an official pardon for his earlier crimes, to rid himself of that shadow. Two Shadows is his mountaineering-focused memoir.
C.V. reviews Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley
Shannon reviews The Boston 395 by Jason Derr
Susan reviews Appraisal for Murder by Elaine Orr
C.V. reviews Hellwatch by Larime Taylor (February's 1st review)
Jaime reviews The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt
Susan reviews Dark Mind by Jennifer Chase
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