Crescenda Long |
December 23, 2015
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology | Authors: Leah Remini & Rebecca Paley | Rating: 10/11 | For most Americans, Scientology ranks among other pseudo-mythical cultural oddities, like The Illuminati, the Lunar Landing or reports of alien abductions. Tom Cruise jumping up and down in an ecstatic (and, let’s face it; creepy) declaration of love for Katie Holmes on Oprah Winfrey’s […]
Trina N. Green |
September 8, 2015
Photofantasm Soundgarden: Nudedragons to King Animal | Authors: Jaye & Mike English | Rating: 11/11 | Fact: Nostalgia, particularly that of the rock n roll kind, can be a sad sack of a thing. We’re talking downright, put-it-out-of-its-misery pitiful (looking at you The Doors of the 21st Century and Jackson Unity Tour just to name a few) particularly if there’s just not […]
Briana Burns |
June 27, 2015
Parentology | Author: Dalton Conley | Rating: 10/11 | Photo Credit: Stephen P. Hudner | With the ever-changing research on parenting, and what approach truly produces the most well-rounded, well-adjusted and successful adults, it is easy to get overwhelmed. Between books claiming attachment parenting is the only way, to philosophies that advocate for sleep training, to the eternal debate on when […]
Briana Burns |
May 25, 2015
Housebreaking | Author: Dan Pope | Rating: 8/11 The second novel by award-winning author Dan Pope, Housebreaking is a masterfully crafted portrait of modern suburban life, American Beauty-esque in the way that it reveals the layers upon layers of dysfunction that go on behind closed doors of your everyday community. When Benjamin Mandelbaum finds himself living with his elderly father as his […]
Briana Burns |
April 20, 2015
Follow Your Gut | Author: Rob Knight (with Brendan Butler) | Rating: 10/11 Have you ever wondered why two seemingly similar people can be predisposed to such different conditions? Do you know someone that can’t seem to avoid being attacked by mosquitoes the moment that they step outside? Why do some people have food sensitivities, even when their parents do […]
Briana Burns |
January 14, 2015
White Plague (A Joe Rush Novel) | Author: James Abel | Rating: 7/11 | Equal parts military fiction, high seas adventure and biomedical horror, White Plague is the exciting tale of Marine Joe Rush, a military doctor, bio-terrorism specialist, weapons aficionado and all-around expert in diffusing impossible situations. When Rush is called in to rescue an US submarine on a […]
Briana Burns |
December 29, 2014
We Are Not Ourselves | Author: Matthew Thomas | Rating: 8/11 | We Are Not Ourselves is a deftly woven novel spanning multiple decades, generations and telling the tale of Eileen Leary’s ascension from the child of an immigrant family to the woman she aspires to become. Eileen’s tale is both heartwarming and heartbreaking – at times, simultaneously – as […]