Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed Pros: Holds your interest in more than the sex vignettes. Cons: Small print is still my nemesis. Reading in the bathroom for two hours causes your legs to fall asleep. Having already read (and reviewed) Fifty Shades of Grey, I couldn’t wait to read the next two installments. I planned to […]
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Jan
Something Is Rotten in Fettig a satire Pros: well developed characters, excellent writing, fun writing style, highly readable, caricatures abound; this one is a keeper, and I rarely enjoy satire Cons: none noted Interesting read Recommended Jere Krakoff’s Something is Rotten in Fettig is a satire comprised of some 265 […]
Hoppity Ty® Beanie Baby® See it at Amazon Pros: Ty product, collectible, cute as can be Cons: none noted Ty® Beanie Babies®’ Hoppity Bunny measures 8 x 3.7 x 0,8 inches of plushy polyester fabric. Hoppity is a honey of a sugar pink rabbit having bright black eyes, triangle pink nose and pink whiskers. Around […]
Annie’s™ Organic, Bunny Fruit Snacks BERRY PATCH flavor Pros: tasty, not sticky in hand or packet, non GMO, gluten free, organic ingredients, no artificial colors or flavors Cons: none noted Annie’s™ Organic, Bunny Fruit Snacks BERRY PATCH flavor generated using real fruit juice and no artificial preservatives, flavors or colors are a mouthwatering, fun to devour, treat […]
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Jan
A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice Pros: narrative drive Cons: Bell Tower is literally “over the top”, one-dimensional villains (with guilty secret) The Bottom Line: Overly melodramatic ending to a chronicle of a queerbaited/-bashed youth in New Orleans of the 1990s I was absorbed in Christopher Rice’s first novel Density of Souls, which was first published in 2000, […]
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Jan
Robert Duncan in San Francisco by Michael Rumaker Pros: third chapter to memoir, 2012 interview Cons: letters (appended to memoir) Though I have read and somewhere have Michael Rumaker’s overwritten (lyrical) A Day and a Night at the [Everard] Baths (1979) and was aware of My First Satyrnalia (1981), I’ve never considered Rumaker a writer, let alone an important gay prose writer. […]
Jersey Boys Pros: Superb music performances. Cons: Overly familiar and emotionally inert Jersey Boys is a movie one wants to like better than they actually do. The 2014 cinematic adaptation of the long running Broadway play offers up a look at the career of the Four Seasons. The play was a musical complete with singing […]
In the House (2012) Pros: strong script, strong performances Cons: the ending is less arresting than the buildup to it Adapted by prolific French auteur François Ozon from a play by Juan Mayorga, “In the House” (Dans la maison, 2012) is a Pirnadellian dark comedy about writing, invasion of privacy, expropriation and manipulation of the […]
Die Again Tomorrow by Kira Peikoff Pros: decent premise and story Cons: missed an opportunity for some real discussion Die Again Tomorrow by Kira Peikoff explores a couple different, yet related, death-inspired themes. The first revolves around so-called Viatical Settlements – where someone (presumably with a terminal illness) sells their life insurance policy at a […]
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Festive In Death – J.D. Robb Pros: some fun holiday-themed stuff Cons: lame investigation Festive In Death is the 39th book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series. Like the rest of the series, it takes place in the year 2060, and features New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas as she solves homicides. In […]