Audio Book Review: The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Read by Gary Chapman)
I know I know... Many of you are thinking. Really? This loser is going to review a self-help book about LOVE on this site??? I can just skip this (and you can, if you really want to)! But bear with me! My next review will be on Ready Player One, a book which will suit many of your tastes far →
Book Review – Heat Wave
Castle is easily one of my favorite shows on TV right now, thanks in large part to Nathan Fillion. As the title character, he brings so much glee to crime fighting (comparable to Po in Kung Fu Panda at times) that it is not hard to love the man. Not only that, but he brings humor and a lightness to →
Audio Book Review: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper (Read by Amanda Ronconi)
It is beyond me why people with annoying voices decide that it is their calling to narrate audio books. Enter Amanda Ronconi, narrator of Molly Harper’s book. She manages to make an already poorly written book even more horrible, especially every time she did her “man” voice. Her rendition of all male characters sounded like a 100 year old crotchety →
Book Review: Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
There must be something wrong with me. It usually takes me upwards of eight hours to write a short three page story based on my own life. Hans Fallada, on the other hand, wrote Every Man Dies Alone (a rather lengthy novel) in just 24 days, shortly after being released from a Nazi insane asylum. The novel is based on →
Book Club In Session – Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse
WARNING: This is a full-blown discussion of the book, so as such there will be spoilers throughout. Proceed with caution! If you would like to read a spoiler free review, follow this link! Lauren: Oh robots. We lean on them like a crutch so much so that when they step aside, we inevitably fall, crack our heads open, and die (well →
Book Review: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Our last book club selection was Robopocalypse. If you have already read the book, definitely read the discussion between Lauren, Zach , and I. However, I wanted to give a spoiler-free review of the book for those of you who have not yet read it and are thinking about it. Robopocalypse is a book unlike any I have read before, which →
Audio Book Review: American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson (Read by Craig Ferguson)
I usually love reading books written by comedians. Even if they are telling what would ordinarily be a boring story, they often manage bring a witticism to it that allows the story to transcend its boring nature and become enjoyable. I was hoping from the same from Craig Ferguson, but was utterly disappointed. I probably could have predicted that there →
Book Review: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons, is a hilariously witty, tongue-in-cheek parody of the melodramatic novels published before and around the 1930’s which featured rural life at its finest: laden with the ever-present promise of impending doom and imminent despair (usually featuring a heroine prone to hysteria and fainting spells). Gibbons' story begins with our recently orphaned heroine, Flora Poste, deciding →
Audio Book Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? (And Other Concerns) By Mindy Kaling (Read by Mindy Kaling)
Before listening to Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, I knew Mindy Kaling only as the self-obsessed and sometimes annoying Kelly Kapoor from NBC’s The Office. I didn’t know that she also coproduces the show, and additionally has written some of its most hilarious episodes (anyone remember the episode where Michael accidentally grills his foot in a George Foreman? That →
Book Club in Session – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Heather: My sister, boyfriend, and I have recently started up a book club (if you can even call a meager three people who happen to be reading the same book a club). Unfortunately for me, they share much the same taste in the fantasy/horror genres (a far cry from my beloved Chelsea Handler and Jodi Picoult), which leaves me searching →
Book Review – Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek by Olivia Munn
That’s right people, I don’t just stare at pretty pictures. I have also dared to make the dangerous journey across the harsh terrain of flipping pages. But let’s be serious, I am no literary genius, so though I feel like I should give you my two cents on these books, I am not going to write as much as I →
