Here is a list of books I've read and have reviewed.
Michael's bookshelf: read
I'd have to agree with the vast majority of people. This was a great book. Ivan certainly knows how to draw her audience in. I was captivated from the cover photo to the last page. No question about it, well worth the read, I didn't ...
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The Book: The Gong Show ~ Re-Inventing Self Author: Michael J. Varma
If you want to know what’s going on in a schizoid, paranoid, crystal meth addicts head...
WHATEVER
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
To tell you the truth, I lost interest. I wasn't going to finish.
I was no where near the ending. Only a third into it.
I hummed and hawed, I struggled through the rest.
I...
The Vanishing Track
author: Stephen Legault
A Cole Blackwater Mystery
Touch Wood Editions
Who would have thought,
that a sleepy town like Vancouver,
could have so much drama?
New York, look out you have a rival!
From the beginn...
Written by Alexandra Chreiteh
Translated from Arabic by Michelle Hartman
Interlink Books
Always Coca-Cola
Abeer Ward, the narrator,
a woman, says it like it is.
In Lebanon.
Scary.
Rape, pregnancy, abortion, menstral flow.
In a count...
JOAN RIVERS
I HATE EVERYONE...STARTING WITH ME
Is it just me or is it right?
Joan has a good attitude, I will give her that.
But..
Is it right?
She seems to be oblivious
about her own age.
As if she's not old. She's bionic!
How doe...
Mein Kampf
Author Adolph Hitler
So...
I'm walking through the library, Guildford Surrey Public Library.
minding my own business, browsing through books.
Looking at the books on a shelf, I stumbled upon this one book.
A book th...
Konstantin
Author: Tom Bullough
What a beautiful story. Well told. The story of a poor boy, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, stricken with disease which left him deaf. The story of would be scientist, an astronomer growing up in Russia in the...
The Quality of Light
Author: Richard Collins
Book Review
Isabel, Michael and Daniel meet, on the wrong side of the tracks.
In a gallery, no a school, no a warehouse, from their yesteryear.
Architecture? Artists of some kind.
Was ...
A Year at River Mountain
I'm not even going to ask how this book got on the 'books we like' shelf at the library. Is there a panel that sits around and reads all the books that come in and do they vote on it? Who gets to say which bo...
THE IMPORTANCE OF
BEING A BACHELOR
Author: Mike Gayle
A Book Review
Three grown men living in Manchester; brothers Adam, Luke and Russell Bachelor deal with the dilemma of their parents, George and Joan Bachelor, splitting up after fo...
Rise
Author: L. Annette Binder
What a strange tale, with lots of eerie visuals, funerals, baby birds, autism what’s it all about.
L.Annette Binder is a very fine writer and knows how to get to the bones of a subject.
Something you and...
While Europe Slept
How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Author: Bruce Bawer
Book Review
If you're not paranoid now,
in these post 911 times of terrorism,
sky bombings, anthrax, and all that shit.
Then read this boo...
You're In Canada Now
Susan Musgrave
Book Review
This book makes you proud to be called a Canadian...
What a great comical wit Susan has. Her enduring life, her infamous rouge of a husband Stephen Reid, the Queen Charlotte Islands an...
Something Like Summer
Author: Jay Bell
A Book Review
Again, from the books we like shelf at the Surrey Public Library. I'm going to have to complain next time I'm there.
What a perfect world Jay Bell writes, Houston, Austin, Galvest...
Signs and Wonders
Author Alix Ohlin
Book Review
What a kaleidoscope of colourful stories, brilliantly bright fading to gray then to black. I'm going to read her other book, titled Inside. From the mundane to sublime, twisting and turn...
Jacob's Legacy
JACOB'S LEGACY
A GENETIC VIEW OF JEWISH HISTORY
Author: David B. Goldstein
Book Review
What makes a Jew a Jew...
DNA, chromosomes, the male Y factor, the female X factor, genes, disease, history, all come together in ...
Seriously...I'm Kidding
Author
Ellen Degeneres
New York Times Bestseller
A Christmas present, from a neighbour.
I was surprised to see so many book reviews already posted on GoogleBooks and GoodReads.
What more can I say?
There's...
The Paternity Test
Author
Michael Lowenthal
Book Review
Two gay men, Stu and Pat
Living on Cape Cod.
A model couple.
Decide they want a child.
They enlist a heterosexual
woman as a surrogate.
After, meeting with her and her husband,...
A BOOK REVIEW
Fifty Shades of: Fifty Shades of Chicken
a parody in a cookbook
FL Fowler
I received this book as a Christmas Present. A parody. A funny cook book.
"Not another funny cookbook," I said. I fingered her. Carefully, slowl...
Life Outside
Michelangelo Signorile
The book, Life Outside written by Michelangelo Signorile, is now a history book. Things have changed since this book has been written.
Written in the late 90‘s. Documenting, what life for the ga...
Help for Writers!
by Roy Peter Clark
A Book Review of Sorts
210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
I came across this book at the library.
I love these self-help books, on writing.
You've just sat down at your desk,
Yo...
The Middlesteins
A Novel
Jami Attenberg A book review.
The Middlesteins a dysfunctional Jewish family living in Chicago. Three generations: Grandparents, Richard and Edie, their children, Robin and Benny (pot heads) and their child...
Reconciliation
Author - Dorothy Speak
A Book Review
A collection of Short Stories, about life and relationships, as told by Dorothy Speak. She uncovers all those hidden emotions that we pretend don't exist and has a knack for getting ...
Author Robert Brockway
THE TERRIFYINGLY REAL WAYS THE WORLD WANTS YOU DEAD.
Another doom and gloom book.
but, oh so interesting...
Everything is Going to Kill Everybody
A Book Review
From Nuclear Bomb Explosions
a hundred times ...
The Cars of Pullman
Three people collaborated to make this book. Joe Welsh, Bill Howes, & Kevin J. Holland
The death of an era. The most important mode of transport in it's day. Especially cross country, and long overnight trips. ...
Lily Tuck
I Married You for Happiness
A Book Review
What is it with me lately? I'm so emotional.
Like a little girl.
How can a small book leave me with a tear in my eye?
I'm a grown man. Real men don't cry.
From the first sent...
Take the Mic
The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
Marc Kelly Smith
A book review.
This is something I thought I'd be good at.
Not that I think I have a voice. Because I don't.
Like everyone else I'm not happy...
JONI - Katherine Monk
The creative odyssey of Joni Mitchell
by Katherine Monk
JONI
A BOOK REVIEW
Roberta Joan Anderson a Canadian, born November 7, 1943. From childhood, a special child.
I was never a big fan of Joni Mitchell.
Gro...
A BOOK REVIEW
Just Listen
by Mark Goulston
Discover the secret to getting through to absolutely anyone...
I love self-help books don't you?
Google Books and Amazon are pumping
them out left and right,
Big Sellers.
But this one
"Ju...
A Book Review
Red Dog Red Dog
by Patrick Lane
It amazes me. Settlers crossing North America in the 1800's.
The hardships they had to endure. Covered wagons, hostile Indians, winter. Food. Eating their dogs.
Hard to believe, ...
A Book Review
With Pen In Hand
by Henriette Anne Klauser Ph.D.
The healing power of writing.
What a beautiful book.
Did I just say that!
We've all been in situations of complete depression, or what we thought was depression. Rem...
APE
Author ~ Publisher Entrepreneur
Guy Kawasaki
Shawn Welch
Guy Kawasaki has written several bestsellers, Enchantment, What the Plus, The Art of the Start.
Shawn Welch also has written three books but in his genre. I haven't a clue ...
Sideshow at Honey Creek by Steven D. Malone
You have no time to think...
The Republic of Texas during the American Civil War. You are in the middle of a battle, led by General A.E. Lee. Tomahawks are flying, Comanche Indians.
The beg...
Richard Kramer's first novel.
These Things Happen The story is set in New York City and covers a period of a few days, from the viewpoint of several people, and is about Wesley, a young fifteen year old teenager and his best friend Theo...
A Good Review
VEX, hex, SMASH, smooch
Constance Hale
Author of Sin and Syntax
Constance Hale, author of another great book, Sin and Syntax takes her writing a little bit further when she digs deep into the usage of verbs in VEX, hex, ...
A Book Review
carry the one
A Novel
Carol Anshaw
Carol Anshaw is an award winning writer. The author of several novels, Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner.
In this novel... carry the one, Carol starts with a bang then e...
Written by Rick Watson
A Book Review
Life Happens Enjoy the Ride
I've driven through Southern Alabama.
Years ago, on a road trip, driving to Florida. Just passing through you might say. Down the Interstate, Birmingham, Montgomery,...
written by Manu Joseph
A Book Review
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
The story opens in Madras, a southern Indian city in the late 1980's. Something strange happened three years earlier.
You will be riveted after reading th...
We Live in Water
Written by Jess Walter
A book review.
His sixth book. A debut collection of thirteen fiction short stories, including his best sellers, Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Loves of the Poets. The title of the book "We liv...
Death My Own Way
written by
Michael S.A. Graziano
A book review.
A man decides to take his clothes off and enter Central Park!
Sound strange?
If not strange, how about, at night?
No, still not strange enough?
He has a lump in his s...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself.
by Ludmilla Petrushevskay
Loves Stories
(Selected and Translated by Anna Summers)
Penguin Books 2013
A Book Review
It should read; UNLOVE STORIES
A co...
I use to hate, hate, hate Romance Novels.
But I loved this one.
A book review.
Climates
written by Maurois, André
(A French author, 1885 -1967)
It is now, one of my all time favourites.
One of the nicest, easiest to read novels with ...
The Lost Weekend an Autobiographical Novel
A Classic
Charles Jackson,
a one hit wonder.
Wrote the autobiographical novel "The Lost Weekend" A book of alcoholism and addiction, in 1944.
Five days in the life of an alcoholic, Don Birnam...
Your teacher hands you back your assignment...
What a piece of crap! Did you write this? No period at the end of your sentence! You mis-spelled (spelt) a word! What do you mean by that or this? Where did you get your facts?
Sound fam...
My first Kindle purchase:
Rick Watson's first Book available on Kindle
Remembering Big
Ponderings & Reflections of a Sloss Holler Scholar
by Rick Watson
A companion book to Life Happens. Rick's other book.
I knew I wouldn't be disap...
Hollywood Huckster
A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions
written by David Garber
A BOOK REVIEW
I had the privilege of reading David Garber's new book; Hollywood Huckster, A Memoir of Hysterical Proportions. Non fiction.
I took my time. R...
by Hermann Unbar
translated by Mike Mitchell
A bizarre story of a man,
named Franz Polzer.
Polzer has problems with OCD. Obsessive, compulsive disorder. He is always counting things. Afraid he is being robbed. His life full of routin...
written by Laura Kasischke
Her first collection of fifteen short stories.
The title of the book:
If A Stranger Approaches You
The title of the last story in the book.
A book review...
I don't think you can get any better than this. E...
No one belongs here more than you
Stories by Miranda July
224 Page collection of short stories, released May 15, 2007.
Won the Frank O'Conner International Short Story Award.
Suddenly I have become aware of the short story and am enjoyi...
A collection of thirteen short stories written by Jessica Francis Kane
She picks topics so mundane and normal then turns them into a whirlwind of events.
About ordinary, quiet people, with the same hopes and dreams as everyone else b...
After reading, "Glass" I anticipated the day when I would find another novel written by Sam Savage. Then the other day, there it was, on the "Books We Liked Shelf" at the library. Where I found "Glass" The shelf which I have some concern...
Another book in the series "For Dummies"
written by Susan Gunelius
Me a dummy, I couldn't pass on this book. I've been searching for a book on blogging and here it was waiting for me at the library. Not the easiest books (about blogg...
The Story of My Purity
written by Francesco Pacifico
The Pope John Paul II, Jewish?
Piero Rosini, poor Piero. Getting older. In a sexless marriage.
Turns to god, to become a publisher for the lord. He moves to Rome and gets to work, e...
written by Ciaran Carson
This is the first book I've ever read that had a blue marker ribbon. What a surprise, every book should have one.
Besides this little added tid-bit of ingenuity, the book The Pen Friend written by Ciaran Car...
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play...
An easy to follow, step-by-step guide in full colour. Written by Thomas Myer
There are hundreds of millions of blogs, millions upon millions of shared videos on Yout...
Writing Public Prose, How to Write Clearly, Crisply and Concisely
What a cute little book. 4 1/2 X 7 fits into your pocket. You've got to love it!
If more books came in this concise handy size, I'm sure more people would be reading bo...
Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply
by Cynthia Reeser
I've just finished writing my best selling manuscript. I want to sell it! Who am I going to turn too? Kindle that's who! The how-to leader in uploaded on-line stories, and d...
A semi-autobiography.
The story of a girl's coming out.
A truly believable story. Jeanette a little girl, is adopted by a Penecostal Family and has a strict moral upbringing, under the guidance of her new mother.
She becomes a well, re...
Does your writing stir emotion?
Are you a tree hugger? Or worried about the earth, the air, the water?
Worried about unfair Politics. Pet friendly, maybe Prefers electric over Petrol. That's a lot of P's.
You do have you opinion. Yo...
Suburbia!
What a nightmare.
The Development is collection of short stories about a certain gated housing community on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Chesepeak Bay. Called Heron Bay Estates.
The community has strict codes, made up of mostly...
Apology written by Jon Pineda
Let me start off by saying I love the structure of this novel. Short little spurts of information, in neat little paragraphs, in eight neat chapters. It makes for a quick read.
About a man nick-name Shoe,...
What's worse than being an unpublished teenage writer living in New York City?
Being Jaeven Marshall, an unpublished teenage writer, who's hustling, selling his body to survive until he gets his big break and someone discovers his writi...
Will Freeman...
Will Freeman, so dowdy, has a special way to meet women. He joins a group for single parents.
SPAT (Single Parents-Alone Together)
A loser. A liar. He pretends he has a child. His father, died setting him up, with royal...
I'm was surprised the protagonist and main character (told from the first persons point of view) in this delightful Novella is named Tommy Pic. Is this any indication of Tom Piccirilli's real life?
Tommy Pic a screenwriter, with one s...
A collection of 15 short stories... in two parts.
Dora Dueck digs deep to construct her characters in this well orchestrated book and her believable characters. She has a flare with the English language. It is well worded, gutsy and e...
Poor, poor Sarah, an artist running away to the seaside to paint a picture.
Or was that an excuse to get away, to reinvent herself.
Of course it was well written, but the plot left me, a little murky, what happened, that wasn't fully ...
Four believable horror stories, of love/life, everything, all gone wrong. The type of stories you've heard about but never would have experienced, hopefully. They are real life horror situations, no matter what you might want to believe....
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