Author: Mike Pihlman

Nook Simple Touch for Christmas 2011

A couple of years ago, I was DEAD set AGAINST e-readers. I thought the world was ending and I made it perfectly clear that I would NEVER stop reading a “real book”. The smell and feel of a good book….sorry I will never get an e-reader. NEVER! Fast forward a year or so, and Lori…

December 27, 2011
December 2011 Thrillers

STILL reading George R.R. Martin! Wow….a BIG book! But loving it…. There are 20 new Thrillers for your reading pleasure! Enjoy and Merry Christmas to all! If I Should Die by Allison Brennan Beyond the Darkness by Jaime Rush Gun Church and Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman A Vine in the Blood by Leighton Gage The Winslow Incident by Elizabeth…

December 13, 2011
Book Review: “Deadly Straits” by R.E. McDermott

Rating: 5 WaterTowers Readers: This is my first “Guest” book reviewer! Tom Alexander is a lifelong (truly he has known me ALL of my life) friend. After high school Tom was accepted to, and attended, the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY. While there he met….R.E. McDermott. I thought Tom’s expertise…

November 28, 2011
November 2011 Thrillers

Wow…I am late this month. Happy reading! 🙂 Death, Taxes & A French Manicure by Diane Kelly Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab Zero Day by David Baldacci A Crimson Warning by Tasha Alexander Escape From Paris by Carolyn Hart National Security by Marc Cameron Obsession by Debra Webb Eddie The Kid by Steven M. Forman Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker Dead of…

November 6, 2011
Book Review “The Sixth Man” by David Baldacci

Genre: Thriller (Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return) Buy it! Edgar Roy is really really smart. So smart that he was selected to filter the overwhelming information from the E-Program’s “Wall” and, in that role, performed like no one else had before him. Countless lives were saved as he deftly put random pieces of information…

October 25, 2011
October 2011 Thrillers

Another batch of great books! Happy Reading. Hell to Pay by Wendy Corsi Staub Blood Falls by Tom Bale Bad Moon by Todd Ritter Zillionaire by Gary Alexander Starcraft Ghost: Spectres by Nate Kenyon Hominid by John C. Boland The Affair by Lee Child The Dark at the End by F. Paul Wilson Shock Wave by John Sandford Freezing Point by Elizabeth Goddard If You…

October 2, 2011
Book Review: “One For the Money” by Janet Evanovich

Genre: Mystery (fun and fast) Stephanie Plum was laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer for a local (Trenton, NJ) department store. Needing money quickly she turned to family and out of the goodness of his heart (not) her cousin Vinnie hired her to be a “skip tracer” in his bail bonds company.…

September 27, 2011
Book Review: “American Assassin” by Vince Flynn

Genre: Thriller (Mitch Rapp before he was Mitch Rapp) The terrorists who brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland had no idea what hell they brought upon themselves. They will find out. Mitch Rapp was a star lacrosse player at Syracuse University in Upstate New York. A gifted athlete waiting for his girlfriend…

September 26, 2011
“I Can Fly!” by Mike Pihlman

S-P-L-A-T – Inspired by this months National Geographic cover. Copyright Sept 8, 2011 by Mike “TracyReaderDad” Pihlman. This is fiction, I think.

September 8, 2011
Book Review: “Dreams of the Dead” by Perri O’Shaughnessy

Genre: Thiller (I LOVE Nina!) At one time, I considered Perri O’Shaughnessy my favorite authors. In 2004, we took a day trip to Carmel, CA to meet them, get autographs, a picture (which they asked me to take off this blog a few years later) and hang around Carmel. It was a great day. Before…

September 5, 2011