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By Dan Marvin on April 2, 2010
There’s good confused, and there’s bad confused. As I read John C. Stipa’s No Greater Sacrifice, I was good confused. If you’ve read any of the Dan Brown novels you know the confused I’m talked about, where the characters leap to the right conclusion time and again when presented with sketchy puzzles while you’re left in the dust.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Dan Marvin, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged john c. stipa, no greater sacrifice |
By Dan Marvin on March 14, 2010
The Curable Romantic is an amusing and insightful look at relationships and the people silly enough to have them. It’s harder to write humor than just about any other genre. Humor has to connect to an absurdity that other people can relate to and find a common ground. Luckily human relationships are imbued with enough silliness that poking fun of them usually strikes a chord.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged katharine miller, the curable romantic |
By Dan Marvin on February 17, 2010
I Miss Your Purple Hair is a good book and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I’ve read 100 page books that felt like they’d never end, but this was a 300+ page book that was over before I knew it. I became invested in the characters and was genuinely curious how they would overcome their dilemma.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Mainstream/Nostalgia | Tagged i miss your purple hair, robert chandler |
By Dan Marvin on January 28, 2010
This Night Wounds Time Shawn Sutherland ISBN 978-0-557-20045-0 158 Pages Paperback $9.68 It took me awhile to warm up to This Night Wounds Time. Shawn Sutherland takes a look into the disappearances of two Texas teens on a night in 1988 in this very personal book. Sutherland attended the same High School a few years [...]
Posted in Dan Marvin, Real Life Drama/Action | Tagged missing persons, shawn sutherland, this night wounds time, unsolved mysteries |
By Dan Marvin on December 20, 2009
I’ll admit it, the frenzy over the 2012 movie convinced me to check out this book. For those of you who have been living under a rock, the year in question was predicted by one of the Mayan calendars to be the last year.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Fiction, Mainstream/Nostalgia | Tagged 2012, christina eichstedt, end times, judy ann eichstedt, mayan calendar, The Last Entries |
By Dan Marvin on November 26, 2009
I dare you not to like Stubbs and Bernadette by Levi Montgomery. Double dog dare you! This book made me late for work on more than once, its that hard to put down. There is something so compelling and sweet about the way that Montgomery describes Bernadette, you just want to shield her from the world. Bernadette in this case is Bernadette Elsbeth McIntyre and the name is bigger than the girl that wears it. She is described as a waif, an elf, a sixteen-year-old in a twelve-year-old’s body and you’ll be able to immediately picture her. There was always someone in everyone’s High School that resembles her. She is the artsy girl, the one that doesn’t dress just right, the one that never quite fit in.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Mainstream/Nostalgia, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged coming-of-age, CreateSpace, Fiction, impulse control, levi montgomery, literary fiction, love story, Stubbs and Bernadette, teenagers, young adult |
By Dan Marvin on October 20, 2009
Cursing the Cougar is two books in one. Which book you like says a lot about you as a reader. The first book is a lushly written coming-of age story that crests and falls on the emotions of the characters. This is the kind of book they don’t write anymore but should, Jane Eyre in blue jeans holding a torque wrench. The second book-within-a-book is a taut psychological thriller complete with deranged bad-guy and brief glimpses into a warped mind. While it would be easy to dismiss Cursing the Cougar as lacking in direction, it’s actually in the intersection of these two tales that we realize that life is LIKE that, sometimes evil visits our slowly simmering lives and turns up the heat.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Mainstream/Nostalgia, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged cursing the cougar, levi montgomery |
By Dan Marvin on September 24, 2009
I can guarantee you’ve never read anything like The Sophisticated Savage. Part scholarly essay, part interview, and part soul-baring diary, Carla Seidl weaves a tale that is hard to put down. What you will likely discover is that you end up finding out much more about Seidl than you do about the title character. Whether you end up empathizing with her or shaking your head, you will be right inside her head during a fascinating time in her life.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Dan Marvin | Tagged amazon, Carla Seidl, Dan Marvin, Ecuador, ethnology, Galapagos, Huaorani, Islands, Jungle, simplicity, The Sophisticated Savage, Travel, Waodani, Waorani |
By Dan Marvin on August 9, 2009
The King, Father, and Mother is reminiscent of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, not quite as good as the Davinci Code but still a compelling read. In Eric Rhodes’ book, we follow three men, separate in time but connected by an Irish hillside and a mysterious stone.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Historical, Mainstream/Nostalgia | Tagged Christianity, Crisis, cycles, divine, druids, Economic, fund, Gnostic, Gnosticism, hedge, HOLY, Hospitaller, investing, Ireland, knights, knowledge, monk, novel, Ogham, reincarnation, soul, spirituality, Sufism, Templar, time, tribulation, Trinity |
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