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  • Book Review: “Fetching Raymond” by John Grisham

    Book Review: “Fetching Raymond” by John Grisham

    Genre: Legal Thriller Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers “Fetching Raymond” is  short story from “Ford County Stories” by John Grisham Leon Graney borrows Mr. McBride’s upholstery business van for a road trip with his mother, Inez,  and brother, Butch. They are going to visit their other brother, eternal optimist, Raymond, at Parchman prison. As the road trip unfolds we…

  • Book Review: “Blood Drive” by John Grisham

    Book Review: “Blood Drive” by John Grisham

    “Blood Drive” is  short story from “Ford County Stories” by John Grisham Genre: Cozy (?) Rating: 4 WaterTowers (Three rednecks driving to Memphis to save a friend) Buy it! Bailey was working in Memphis when he got hurt and sent to the hospital.  The details of his condition were varied, but, the town-folk of Box…

  • Book Review: “Paris is a Bitch” by Barry Eisler

    Book Review: “Paris is a Bitch” by Barry Eisler

    Genre: Thriller (a Rain / Delilah Short Story) Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers (Read it!  Great story) This is Eisler’s second short story in the past few months.  Both are self-published in electronic format only, but, the first “The Lost Coast” is pure new age scary as hell 4 WaterTower thriller (a love story….oh sorry, Mr. Eisler,…

  • Book Review: “Amber Rules” by Melinda Curtis

    Genre: Romance  (Romance fans would rate this higher) Rating:  2.5 WaterTowers (Angst, Sex, Basketball) The PDF version of “Amber Rules” was sent to me (for my Nook) by Melinda Curtis.  I believe it is available now. I do not read romance very often (errr, ever) so I was looking forward to this. And it is a darn…

  • The New Barnes & Noble Nook: Taking it for a Spin

     (Barry Eisler rocks!) Sandra at the Tracy, CA Barnes & Noble held this up for me to see when I sat down in my favorite spot.  I jumped up, took it, and spent 30 minutes or so playing with it. VERY nice! Having the old Nook; I found out that this one is much faster,…

  • June 2011 Thrillers

    Where have I been?  Working on ForCarol.com since that is REALLY important… But….I am caught up now….there are 35 new Thrillers in June 2011 for your reading pleasure! Enjoy The Phoenix Apostles by Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore The Devil Colony by James Rollins Strong at the Break by Jon Land (Read MY review) County Line by Bill Cameron…

  • Book Review: “Hell’s Corner” by David Baldacci

    Genre: Thriller Rating: 3 WaterTowers After meeting with the President, Oliver Stone (now nearly everyone knows he is John Carr) accepts a near suicide mission to help stop an influx of Russian spies tied to the, now, very powerful Russian drug cartels. This is the price he has to pay for killing two Government officials…

  • Barnes & Noble Introduces a New Nook

    Surfing the Internet today I spotted this article from the NY Times stating that a new Nook eReader has been introduced! Very cool. Here are some basics of the $139 eReader: It is WiFi only, it uses e-ink technology so glare will not be a problem, the entire display is touch screen, they claim the…

  • “Rapture” by Mike Pihlman

    “Rapture” by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Paul spent his last week preparing for the rapture everyone said was coming. He quit his job, told his nagging ass wife to stuff it, picked up with a particularly attractive hooker, and drove to Yosemite to hang out until 6 PM PST May 21. He was ready. As he was walking a…

  • Amazon Now Sells More E-Books Than Print Books

    Wow!  This happened a lot faster than I thought it would just a couple of short years ago. I was surfing the Internet and saw this article from our friends at Computerworld. Amazon says it sells 105 Kindle based e-books (not counting the free e-books, so these are actual purchases) for every 100 print books.…