Posts under ‘Books in Scrutiny’

For those that have never read my reviews of John Zakour’s books (Plutonium Blonde, Doomsday Brunette, Radioactive Redhead, Frost-Haired Vixen, and Blue-Haired Bombshell). Heck, I even interviewed the author. This is a writer I actually enjoy reading and even though I have (as yet) not gotten back to Frost-Haired Vixen (I promised to give it [...]

Well, I am working on a lack of sleep. I am also actually amazed that this lack of sleep is allowing me to plow through as much as I have been. Most of the lack comes as a response to Erin’s needs to sleep more since she does a lot of the heavy lifting when [...]

I recently put down ‘Red Mars’ by Kim Stanley Robinson. Good book. It explores the scientific theory, through a science fiction story, of what would need to take place in order for human-kind to travel to and eventually colonize Mars. The general plot of the book doesn’t sound all that interesting, and unless you are [...]

Kim Harrison has been writing the Rachel Morgan series of books for a while now. At least, it feels like a while. When I read the first book, having come across a sample chapter a la Amazon.com and her website, I bought the book and read it, enjoying every last word on every last page. [...]

Brandon Sanderson is the current heir apparent, or at least the one who will finish, Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series of books. Before he was selected by the late Robert Jordan’s wife, Harriet, to write the books, Sanderson had been carrying on his own writing work creating The Mistborn series, Elantris, and other [...]

World Book Day is a measure that is promoted in the United Kingdom and Ireland to promote reading to school age children. The outcome is that several prominent authors will write and then donate short novels (novellas really) to World Book Day so they can be published and then distributed to children who have been [...]

John Zakour starting writing the Zachary Nixon Johnson books with his writing partner Lawrence Ganem with a trilogy of books: The Plutonium Blonde, The Doomsday Brunette, and The Radioactive Redhead. After this trilogy, John Zakour took on the series as a solo writer, putting out The Frost-Haired Vixen. What caught my attention, with these books [...]

I recently picked up a copy of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and read the whole thing. This was an entertaining book written by an author that goes by the name AVI. You can walk into almost any bookstore, go to the children’s section, look under Independent Reader ages 8 - 12 and you [...]