by Don Messerschmidt | Mar 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Humor, Travel
The Prologue to this funny travelers’ romp, featuring Sue and Sara, begins with sage advice from Sue’s mother: “Wherever you go, whatever you do, just… don’t do anything stupid.” The lives of these two young women were stagnating. Both had backpacked a little, and...
by Galina Roizman | Feb 23, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor, Short Stories, Sponsored
If you like Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” A Boy from the Chesapeake, by Larry Roszkowiak, is a book for you. This is a wonderful collection of short stories. It consists of a little more than 30 pieces (part of them could be called poems) of...
by Roberta Kelley | Feb 9, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor, Science Fiction
When a mysterious creature lands in Billy Morton’s fishing boat and follows him home, he’s not totally sure what to think. All Billy knows is he’s good with the kids and seems to be down with being called Louie. However, when Louie starts hacking...
by Sarah Hutchins | Feb 1, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Humor
Samuel Andresen-Anderson is a lit professor who hasn’t written in a very long time, even though he makes time for his weekly online multiplayer role-playing game (RPG). His mother, whom he hasn’t seen since she abandoned him as a child, suddenly reappears in his life...
by Addison Fleming | Jan 27, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Humor
Bridget Jones’s Baby is the fourth installment of Helen Fielding’s series chronicling Bridget Jones’s chaotic and humorous singleton lifestyle. Elements of the novel parallel Bridget Jones’s Diary, primarily Bridget’s indecision over which romantic partner she is...
by Howard Leighton | Jan 13, 2017 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, Humor
In 1958 the comic strip B.C. appeared in national daily newspapers. Johnny Hart created the strip and he continued it for the next 58 years until his death in 2007. Since then the strip continues through the efforts of his oldest grandson and others. [alert...