I will try not to give any spoilers away during my review. Overall I would say that I liked the book. I am a Russo fan so I tend to enjoy fiction that is more character driven. This book fits the character driven category of fiction. The point of character driven fiction is to produce vibrant characters, I am not sure if these characters were quite vibrant enough for me. The main character is a little bit one-dimensional. His driving force is a little unclear. […]
An Exercise in How Not to Write Post-Apocalyptic Gender Segregated Societies
This book is festival of horrors. If I could give it negative five stars I would. If for some terrible reason you want to read it don’t read this there will be spoilers. It’s a YA novel and as such there is a certain amount of teenage angst that has to be begrudgingly accepted. I understand that there is a formula to YA novels I have read quite a few myself, but I had just read two pretty lengthy nonfiction books, 100 pages of microbiology, […]
The Dog World: Politics, Crazy, and Fluff
Show Dog is a nonfiction work by Josh Dean that takes the reader on a journey through a year of living like a show dog. By show dog I am referring to the archetypal dog shows known as confirmation shows. I must confess first of all that I came to this book as someone who has been in and out of the dog world for most of my life, and probably most importantly for this particular book someone who has owned Australian Shepherds and considers myself a […]
Both Sides…or at least his side
Not Dead Yet is a memoir of my favorite musical artist. I will be honest that I am not much of a memoir/biography guy and have avoided reading them unless cornered into doing so. However, Not Dead Yet is actually a pretty entertaining read. Phil Collin’s delivery of his memories can be a little jarring at first. I would liken it to talking with an older relative who is both verbose and perhaps boiling over with memories to share. Often during the course of the memoir […]