Acheter ce livre! When the topic of "creepy" was recently brought up, I immediately thought of a book I stumbled upon a couple of years ago at the legendary City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. Yes, revenge can be so sweet. Now mix it with obsession and a touch of madness, and it turns utterly twisted and…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) I love mythologies. Indian mythologies and historical facts are my absolute favorites. The number of ways in which you can tell a story is the most fascinating feature of mythologies.The Mahabharata is one of those stories where every retelling makes you wonder if the original by Vyaas was more favourable towards…
(Reviewed by Cathy Carey) "We did more than just fight a war; we found a way to cash in on it. I guess we had larceny in us to begin with. And now they thought I had the swag. But I didn't." Zach made it out of Afghanistan alive, only to be fighting for his…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “After working in software for a decade, I understood the bits and bytes of e-mail, Facebook posts, tweets, and texts, but dropping a piece of paper into a box and it appearing on the other side of the world a few days later? That was true magic.” “Bookstores are romantic creatures.…
(Reviewed by Don Jung) I have read numerous accounts of the horrors of war, but none so riveting as those depicted in Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept. However, this autobiography by Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal of Valor recipient, Daniel Rodriguez is so much more. It is also an inspiring…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…and you like a weather bird arcing round in the middle of your life to exact opposites and burning your brains out so that from June 5 1907 till 1931 you were dropped into amber in the East Louisiana State Hospital. Some saying you went mad trying to play the devil’s…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I’m jonesing pretty bad, so, bail out of the morgue, score some dope to tide me over, and then on to the next order of business: finding out who killed me.” Huh? Charlie Miner, our drug-addicted private investigator is having a bad day. Finding himself lying in a Los Angeles…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) "Follow the grief and you'll find the killer." Peter Bragg, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter turned private investigator is contacted by a woman, Maribeth, from his past. It’s not what you think. When he was a journalist, he talked her out of committing suicide, and she never forgot him. Now…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Every woman is Medusa. When you look into her eyes, you see the entire history of the human race. That’s enough to turn anyone to stone.” Those were the words of a soldier, Leonardo Ferrero, whose body was discovered by Austrian cavers while hiking the Dolomites. The problem was that Ferrero…
(Reviewed by Cathy Carey) What does your handwriting tell about you? What does the slant of your writing, the pressure of the writing, opened loop versus closed loop ( like with the letter “g” or “y”), cursive versus print all mean? What if you write half cursive/ half print? A lot of this says whether you have…
