Bad Monkey is Carl Hiaasen’s latest novel that came out at the beginning of the summer of 2013. Similarly to many of Hiaasen’s novels, the book is about a rough around the edges detective who desperately wants his job back. He sets out to solve a murder that he really has no business solving. While … Read more
Summary: Funny stories mixed in with some advice. I like comedy. I don’t laugh nearly enough. I have a tendency to be a little too serious. But I have a few standard humor authors. Christopher Buckley is one of my favorites (but I have read pretty much everything he has written.) Christopher Moore is pretty funny … Read more
Summary: A skewering of some convenient targets. I don’t read a lot of Christian fiction. Most of it I think tries too hard to get a message across and not hard enough to tell a good honest story. And I think that is the central problem with Evangellyfish. Douglas Wilson is a good writer. He strings words … Read more
Summary: A farcical skewering of politicians, money and regular people trying to make a living. A few months ago Audible was having a buy one get one free sale. One of the options was Strip Tease. I couldn’t really find anything to match with the other book that I did want, so I threw it in … Read more
Reposting this 2012 review because the Audiobook is today’s Audible Deal of the Day and on sale for $3.95 today only (June 7) Summary: Two trade representatives die during an interstellar trade negotiation creating an interstellar incident. If Harry Creek does not find a particular type of sheep there might a war, one that Earth will not … Read more
Summary: A man leaves his family and heads to Hollywood to direct a film that God told him to direct. Frank Schaeffer is an acquired taste. I have mostly enjoyed the three books of his that I have read. But he has a lot of anger. And some of it is directed toward valid issues. … Read more
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Everyone that reads, especially if you blog about your reading, hits a reading slump. I seems to hit a slump of one variety or another about once every three or four months. Sometimes the slump expresses itself as a lack of desire to read. But more often the slump is expressed by extreme ADD reading. … Read more
Takeaway: No matter how serious the topic, sometimes it is good to just laugh. Purchase Links: Kindle Edition One of the chapters that I really enjoyed with David Dark’s Sacredness of Questioning Everything was about Questioning our Offendedness. It is easy to be offended when people do not believe as you do or seem to … Read more
Takeaway: A somewhat dated humorous mystery. Decent writing, liked it, did not love it. Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook Tourist Season was my first attempt at listening to a complete book from NetLibrary (my post about it). The audio quality was not perfect, but I am fully willing to admit it may be … Read more