No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Book Review: "Show No Fear" by Perri O’Shaughnessy

    Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers “Show No Fear” is the first Nina Reilly book in about….hmmmm, 4 years?  It has been a long wait. I know when I went to meet Perri in 2004,  they mentioned that Nina would take a vacation and that they had been working on “Keeper of the Keys” (4 WaterTower, standalone) and…

  • Thrillers Due in Jan 2009

      ThrillerWriters.org web site has a list of 22 books due this month with links to each. Check it out here.  Happy Reading…. I am almost done with “Show No Fear”.  Look for the review this weekend.  🙂

  • Barry Eisler to Release “Fault Line”

    ++++ UPDATE Jan 29, 2009:  Barry sent the ARC of “Fault Line”.    I recieved it yesterday,  and will read it as soon as I finish Jon Land’s ARC.   TracyReaderDad…a new force to be reckoned with in the “Thriller” genre.  How cool is that?   🙂 ++++  One of my upcoming favorite authors  is…

  • Economic Woes Strike Best Selling Author

    This article from CNN states that best selling author Alexandra Penney has fallen victim the the Madoff-Ponzi scheme debacle.   Very sad, but, for those of us who can learn from this remember diversification means not putting all your eggs in one basket.  The stock market, for example, is one basket.  CD’s are a basket.…

  • Book Review: “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” by J.K. Rowling

    Book Review: “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” by J.K. Rowling

      Genre:  Children’s Fantasy Rating:  5 WaterTowers The magic continues. “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” was given to Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” as one of the items that would help them (Harry, Ron and Hermione) destroy Voldemort. This book was translated from the Ancient Runes by Hermione and includes…

  • Book Review: “L is for Lawless” by Sue Grafton

    Book Review: “L is for Lawless” by Sue Grafton

    Genre:  Mystery Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers In “L is for Lawless”,  Kinsey has agreed to help a friend of Henry Pitt’s (remember Henry is Kinsey’s octegenarian landlord). A few months ago, this friend, Johnny Lee died of a heart attack.  His son and grandson are now trying to get reimbusement for the burial expenses from the…

  • E-Book Sales Increasing

    I stumbled across this article on the increasing sales of the electronic books (E-Books).   UPDATE: Jan 6, 2009  Here is another interesting article on this subject on CNN.   Amazon’s Kindle appears to have gathered the approval of Oprah (see the post directly below this one) and is now out of stock until Feb…

  • Advice for Oprah

    See this article concerning the cancellation of a book by Holocaust survivors. The person writing it appeared on Oprah’s show more than once.    Seems that lately a lot of non-fiction isn’t.   Here is some advice: Fiction is a great genre to cover. 🙂

  • Book Review: “First to Kill” by Andrew Peterson

    Book Review: “First to Kill” by Andrew Peterson

    Genre:  Thriller Rating:  3 WaterTowers “A smile touched Nathan’s lips.  Nathan McBride in his environment–ready, willing, and able to kick ass.” Once again I was lucky to find an autographed copy of a book.   This time at Costco in Tracy, CA.  I was even luckier that “First to Kill” is smack dab in the…

  • Book Review: “The Mystery of the Sea” by Bram Stoker

    Book Review: “The Mystery of the Sea” by Bram Stoker

      Genre: Mystery Rating: 4 Water Towers Archibald Hunter was spending his annual vacation in Cruden Bay, Scotland when he sees two women and a man walking abreast. Suddenly, he has a vision of the man carrying a coffin and the two women walking behind. Just as suddenly, he sees the three walking normal again.…