Author Archives: Jennifer
Grow Up
Grow Up by Ben Brooks is a dirty, dirty book. It is a wonderfully filthy book. I think I might have to buy it. The only things the teenagers in this book know how to do are drink, do drugs, do each other and … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Fiction
Drowning Instinct
Word to the wise: if you want to avoid going to the loony bin, put all sharp objects out of reach. Also stay out of the way of your psychopath father and drunken mother. Ilsa J Bick’s Drowning Instinct is chock full of … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Fiction, Young Adult
The Dark Tower Series
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King Is there any better first line to start a novel? The beginning hook when I’m writing is usually “Okay, there … Continue reading
Filed under Book Lists, Book Review, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Wonder
People are jerks. Let me amend that. Some people are jerks. They stare, point, and are loud with their insults. And God save you if you have a visible flaw. In R.J. Polacio’s Wonder, 11 year old August Will, known … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Children's Books
Ashes
I am so over zombie books. At least I thought I was until I picked up Ilsa J. Bick’s Ashes. At the beginning of this young adult novel we meet Alex who has a brain tumor and has been given 6 months … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Fiction, Horror
Laughing Through Hell
The funniest people are usually the darkest you’ll ever bump into. Well okay, there are those Goth kids who have their faces painted stark white and lips painted black. They sit in dark rooms listening to Morrissey and reading Poe … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Humor, Memoir & Biography, Nonfiction
11/22/63
I think Stephen King’s latest novel, 11/22/63, is 600 pages too long. Oh my God. Do you think he heard me say that? Is he on his way right now, hurtling along fog choked freeways on a motorcycle made from human … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
The Suicide Collectors
I love a good plague. From the black death to the influenza of 1918 that basically stopped the world in its tracks, plagues and contagion fascinate me. The thing I find absolutely amazing is that history really does repeat itself. … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Search of the Rose Notes
When I was nine years old there were a series of commercials for Time-Life books—these were the days before the 3 a.m. infomercials advertising things you absolutely could not live without—about the paranormal. The commercial’s a little hazy in my … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, General Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Turn of Mind
I have a compulsion. No, I don’t shoplift decorative spoons or collect Beanie Babies. I have a compulsion to write things down. I’ve had people tell me they think it’s great that I chronicle the (often boring) events in my life. When … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, Fiction, General Fiction, Mystery & Crime
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