by Site Owner | Apr 27, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
By Bill Vlasic William Morrow, $26.99, 400 pages In 2008, the U.S. auto industry was sick enough to land in the Intensive Care Unit. Neither the economic experts nor the auto industry executives knew then if The Big 3 would survive. This is Bill Vlasic’s...
by Site Owner | Feb 15, 2012 | The Reader's Perspective
The Singer Not the Song? by Joseph Arellano On First Glance Novelist Amy Hatvany (Outside the Lines, Best Kept Secret) introduced an interesting discussion on Facebook by asking, “Do you think most book reviews are about the book or about the reviewer?” ...
by Site Owner | Dec 26, 2011 | The Reader's Perspective
By Joseph Arellano In my opinion, this was a good to very good year; not as good as 2010 in terms of its offerings, and hopefully not as good as what’s to come. Let’s look here at some of the highlights and lowlights. The Rise (and Fall?) of the e-reader The e-book...
by Site Owner | Oct 22, 2011 | The Reader's Perspective
The Connundrum of Context by Joseph Arellano Here’s a question that I struggle with as a book reviewer, “Is it appropriate to make reference to other books when I review a new one?” For the reasons I’ll explain here, my answer tends to be situational. Let’s say that...
by Site Owner | Aug 2, 2011 | The Reader's Perspective
No Expectations: Perspectives on the Publishing Trade by Joseph Arellano A Disturbing Trend Increasingly, I’ve been bothered by a new trend in fiction that’s not at all positive. This is the creation of the novel that has no plot, no true story line. Such books –...
