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Review 136: I Miss Your Purple Hair by Robert Chandler
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.
Review 130: The Splendor of Antiquity by Cheryl Anne Gardner
It is ironic, is it not, how everything seems so poetic in death, yet we rarely see the poetry in life?
I couldn’t think of a more truer statement than this, spoken by a God-like king on the first page of Cheryl Anne Gardner’s book, The Splendor of Antiquity. True, we’d expect our Gods to say such profound things and the narrator of this book does not disappoint with such expectations. After all, he has been dead for centuries and our lead female, an archaeologists named Joliette Deneauve, is about to dig him up.
Review 126: 2012: The Last Entries by Christina and Judy Ann Eichstedt
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.
Review 122 – Stubbs and Bernadette by Levi Montgomery
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.
Review 121: 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster
What would life be like if you were a 39 year old man plagued with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and Asperger’s Disorder? What would happen if your routines were upset and suddenly life seemed to be spiraling out of control?
Review 118: The Electric Adventures of Alvin, Part Two by Adam Schakowski
You may be wondering why I’ve listed a “by” and “written by” above in this book’s information. It’s actually quite clever. The Electric Adventures of Alvin, Part Two is actually a “real time” blog novel. And no, it’s not a sequel. Not a “real” sequel anyway. But the real author behind the idea is Kevin McDermott. Confused? Don’t be!
Review 117: Cursing the Cougar by Levi Montgomery
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.
Review 115: Dark Oz by Aaron Denenberg
I admit that when Aaron Denenberg queried the LLBR with his book Dark Oz, I was going to turn it down without even reading the preview or attempting to learn more about the book. Like most adults my age, I grew up looking forward to seeing the Wizard of Oz each year on television back in the 80’s. That movie, along with the original King Kong helped shape hours of my imagination each summer in a house that only got seven TV channels, so I’m apt to be against changing anything about those memories or seeing Oz from a new perspective.
Review 103: Minnie by Ashley Lane
When I saw Minnie posted for review request, I knew I wanted to review it even before I read the preview. There was just something about it that appealed to me and drew me in. In fact, I put dibs on the book before I read the preview, and then realized I had better do my homework first and find out exactly what I was getting myself into.
Review 102: The King, Father & Mother by Eric Rhodes
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.

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