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Slotback Rhapsody by Christopher Harris

Slotback Rhapsody by Christopher Harris

By Peter Hassebroek on January 31, 2012

Slotback Rhapsody by Christopher Harris is an intelligent football story not just for sports fans. Harris, who writes for ESPN.com, merges his football knowledge and writing craft to fine effect in this fictional yet insightful depiction of a struggling athlete and the choices he makes to achieve success.

Posted in Fiction, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews, Sports | Tagged book review, christopher harris, espn, Fiction, football, sports | Leave a response

Review 285: Heaven Again by H. C. Turk

Review 285: Heaven Again by H. C. Turk

By Peter Hassebroek on December 28, 2011

Grief and guilt ripple through Heaven Again by H. C. Turk, but not in a morose or self-pitying way. Despite emotionally weighed-down characters and tragic events, this compact, engaging novel that takes place in fictional locales in Florida compels the reader more to contemplation than anger, tears, or depression.

Posted in Fiction, Literary, Reviews | Tagged book review, dogs, Fiction, Florida, greyhound, HC Turk, Heaven Again | Leave a response

Review 267: Street Raised by Pearce Hansen

Review 267: Street Raised by Pearce Hansen

By Peter Hassebroek on November 29, 2011

Street Raised by Pearce Hansen is a basic revenge drama set in the grimly depicted environment of the East Bay area in California in the early 1980s. Oakland street hood, Speedy, gets released from a prison in the northern part of the state, shoeless. He ventures home, encountering a few adventures and picking up a kitten along the way. In a long opening chapter, we see the complex mix of violence and compassion that makes up the protagonist’s character. Once home, Speedy reunites with his younger brother, Willy, who’s become a crack addict during Speedy’s long incarceration.

Posted in Action/Adventure, Fiction, Reviews | Tagged book review, crime drama, Fiction, Pearce Hansen, Street Raised | Leave a response

Give Thanks for Negative Reviews

Give Thanks for Negative Reviews

By Peter Hassebroek on November 24, 2011

In the spirit of Thanksgiving and football, I advocate authors, in particular self-published ones, to take an opportunity to give thanks to their reviewers. Not for the positive reviews, and certainly not the Amazon single paragraph, five-star gushers, but rather the negative ones.

Posted in Self-Publishing, Writing | Tagged Negative, review | 4 Responses

Review 250: A Self-Publisher’s Companion by Joel Friedlander

Review 250: A Self-Publisher’s Companion by Joel Friedlander

By Peter Hassebroek on October 26, 2011

Joel Friedlander is a well established authority in the self-publishing world and the force behind The BookDesigner website. His old-school self-publishing efforts, before Print On Demand, led to his becoming a provider of customized self-publishing services—a book producer, to use his term. Much of his new book is culled from blog posts of the past years, with an emphasis on the why of self-publishing more than the how.

Posted in Non-Fiction, Reviews, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged Book Designer, book review, Joel Friedlander, non-fiction, print on demand, publishing, Self-Publishing | Leave a response

Review 241: Running Wide Open (Full Throttle) by Lisa Nowak

Review 241: Running Wide Open (Full Throttle) by Lisa Nowak

By Peter Hassebroek on October 8, 2011

When Cody Everett and his graffiti artist friends get caught by the Portland police, it’s the last straw for the boy’s father who puts two choices to his son: military school or live with his mother’s brother, Race Morgan, in a trailer park in Eugene. Cody’s uncle is a race car driver so the choice seems obvious. Running Wide Open by Lisa Nowak is Cody’s story about that episode in his life in 1989.

Posted in Fiction, Reviews, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged book review, juvenile fiction, lisa nowak, running wide open, young adult | 1 Response

Review 231: You Don’t Die of Love by Thomas Thonson

Review 231: You Don’t Die of Love by Thomas Thonson

By Peter Hassebroek on August 25, 2011

Writing about what you know and have experienced can be a great tonic to exorcise one’s demons while remaining authoritative at the same time. It can also turn into a self-serving rant. Thomas Thonson is a veteran of the Hollywood film industry and the theme of his unpretentious collection, You Don’t Die of Love, is Hollywood and its people, particularly Harry Dare, an old time actor of Westerns whose private life was more dramatic than his cinematic one.

Posted in Fiction, Literary, Reviews | Tagged book review, collection, Fiction, hollywood, short story, thomas thonson | Leave a response

Review 227: Inklings by Aparna Warrier

Review 227: Inklings by Aparna Warrier

By Peter Hassebroek on August 12, 2011

Collectively, Inklings (Very short stories and other babies born of ink) by Aparna Warrier, is shorter than a conventional short story. Undoubtedly the shortest book I’ve ever read without pictures.

Posted in Fiction, Literary, Reviews | Tagged aparna warrier, book review, collection, Fiction, flash fiction, short story | 2 Responses

Review 218: A Sudden Dominance of Shadows by Wade Alan Steele

Review 218: A Sudden Dominance of Shadows by Wade Alan Steele

By Peter Hassebroek on July 8, 2011

Collected stories, like songs on LPs, often share a theme or tone related to its title. In that sense, the title of Wade Alan Steele’s collection, A Sudden Dominance of Shadows, correlates to the opaqueness of many of its stories that delve into the murky psyches of its protagonists. Otherwise, though, the disparate styles and quality of the stories makes this book more like a collection of B-Sides.

Posted in Fiction, Literary, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews | Tagged book review, dominance, Fiction, shadows, short story collection, sudden, wade alan steele | 1 Response

Review 216: 365 and a Wake-Up by Frank Jolliff

Review 216: 365 and a Wake-Up by Frank Jolliff

By Peter Hassebroek on June 24, 2011

Against the intense drama of ilms like Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Deer Hunter, and so on, Frank Jolliff’s memoir, 365 and a Wake-Up, paints a comparatively benign picture. That contributes to both its strengths and its drawbacks.

Posted in Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews | Tagged book review, draft, frank jolliff, memoir, vietnam | Leave a response

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