book review
Books reviews on workplace, corporate, and business driven books.
A Wand is Better Than a Wish
What makes a great franchise? A great book series. And what makes a great book turn into a great series? The world that the author creates and the depth of how much the reader is invested into the story. Fantasy is sometimes laughed at as a genre and in life, ridiculed for not being real enough so why bother becoming invested in something that cannot be true? But that's the point, fantasy is an escape. It let's us dive into a completely made-up world with none of the same rules, ramifications, consequences or limitations of our reality, in order to escape our reality, even for an hour of reading or 120 minutes of screen-time.
By Iryna Paikoush4 years ago in Journal
Book Review: The Return of the Pharaoh
I was given a free e-copy of this novel by NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I have not read anything by Nicholas Meyer before this novel. This is Mr. Meyer’s fifth Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and I believe he did the Great Detective admirable justice.
By Caitlin Gonya4 years ago in Journal
Book Review: Getaway With Murder
I was given a free e-copy of this novel by NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. Diane Kelly begins a new cozy mystery series titled Mountain Lodge Mystery. In the first novel Getaway With Murder, Misty Murphy, alone with cat Yeti, are celebrating her fiftieth birthday with a mutual divorce, as well as purchasing an older mountain lodge on the Blue Ridge Mountains. She might have bitten off more than she can chew, however, when she sees that the old lodge appears to be falling off a bluff. Enter Rocky Crowder, handsome handyman, and his trusty sidekick dog Molasses. With Rocky around for maintenance, Misty can focus on acquiring guests, and she is off to a fantastic start when she becomes fully booked her opening night with a yoga group needing a place for their retreat. Feeling the zen-like atmosphere, Misty and group are caught completely off guard when the yoga instructor is found murdered. Now Misty must scramble to protect not only her guests, but also the reputation of her lodge or else she might lose everything including her life.
By Caitlin Gonya4 years ago in Journal
Obscure Nonfiction Reviews "Einstein's Cosmos"
So we’re shaking things up today, I know, the third review, already shaking things up? Almost like you don’t have a plan, Kevin. I just want you to know dear internet strangers, I don’t have a plan. It’s pretending to have a plan until genius strikes, maybe, definitely.
By Kevin E Carlson4 years ago in Journal
Book Review: The Mystery of Albert E. Finch
I was given a free e-copy of this novel by NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I love the Victorian Bookclub Mystery series by Callie Hutton, and was so excited to see a third one in the series. Lord William Wethington and Lady Amy Lovell have gotten married! What should be a happy occasion is marred at the wedding breakfast when Lady Amy’s cousin Alice Finch jumps dead in to her food. Amy and William battle wits again with Detectives Carson and Marsh when they decide that Alice’s husband Albert is the killer. With Amy’s mystery writer identity revealed to all, and the couple’s previous successes, Albert has requested their assistance to proving his innocence. Unfortunately for everyone who is investigating, suspects begin to pile up including Albert, and soon a second body is discovered. According to the same detectives and to William’s consternation, the happy couple is not allowed to go on their honeymoon. To add insult to injury, Amy’s father, brother, and Aunt Margaret have temporarily moved into William and Amy’s home as unexpected repairs are being done to their own home. Now that there is a threat to their happiness, the two decide to take matters into their own hands before there becomes one to their lives as well.
By Caitlin Gonya4 years ago in Journal
On The Artist's Way
The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, is a book on the spirituality of creativity. If you’ve never read it, or even heard of it, I highly recommend picking it up on Amazon, or at your local book store. In the pages of the book, Julia teaches one how to unblock, and let creativity, which is our natural state, flow.
By Michael X Christopher4 years ago in Journal
The Elephant Man: A Humanistic Film
The film “The Elephant Man” is an iconic and powerful humanistic filmmaking endeavor. Director David Lynch forces the horrors and sadness of deformity onto the audience in a way that leaves the viewer tear choked with sadness and sympathy. Most people who watch the film are touched in a way that alters their view of the crippled, weak, and deformed persons of the world.
By Ismael Fernandez4 years ago in Journal
