No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Harry Potter Month

    Tonight we are going to go see “Order of the Phoenix”. Should be exciting, but, the big event is next Friday when we will all be at Barnes & Noble in Tracy. My daughter is helping out, and I’ll be taking pictures and reading. Read these reviews to refresh your memory: “Order of the Phoenix”…

  • Book Review: “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” by J.K Rowling

    Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5 Water Towers Book 6 (Half Blood Prince) starts off in the Prime Minister of England’s office as he is awaiting a call from the “wretched” President of a far distant land. But, that call is cancelled when the “Ministry of Magic” summoned an emergency meeting with the Prime Minister. Bad things…

  • Book Review: "Airframe" Book Review

    Book Review: "Airframe" Book Review

    “Airframe” by Michael Crichton Genre: Thriller   “So now day-to-day life is false, and the media image is true. Sometimes I look around my living room and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing…

  • Book Review: "Rain Fall" by Barry Eisler

    Book Review: "Rain Fall" by Barry Eisler

      Genre: Thriller: Assassin (“Rain Fall” was re-named “A Clean Kill in Tokyo” Rating: 4 Water Towers John Rain is a killer. But unlike most for hire killers, he comes with a code of ethics: He will not kill women or children, he will only kill the principle (not some poor soldier just taking orders),…

  • Book Review: “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by J.K Rowling

    Genre: Fantasy Rating: 5 Water Towers I am getting ready for July 13 (or is it July 11th?), 2007 (the 5th Harry Potter movie) and July 21, 2007 the 7th, and last, Harry Potter book by re-reading Book 5 (Order of the Phoenix) and Book 6 (Half-Blood Prince). Both are outstanding earning 5 water towers…

  • Fathers Day – I’ll take a REAL book

    Being YeOldeTechy…I like techy stuff. Not to the extreme, but a new gadget every now and then catches my eye and I have to check it out. There is one gadget I will NEVER check out and will never want….the electronic book. I have been seeing Sony ads touting their latest electronic book that can…

  • Book Review: “H is for Homicide” by Sue Grafton

    Book Review: “H is for Homicide” by Sue Grafton

    Genre: Mystery I love it when a novelist has the main character say “Honestly, I’m not making this stuff up”. Sue Grafton has a great sense of humor along with a great writing style. I feel very comfortable knowing that every few books I will read another of the Kinsey Millhone series (“S” is the…

  • "Simple Genius" Book Review

    "Simple Genius" Book Review

    “Simple Genius” by David Baldacci Genre: Thriller Rating: 4 Water Towers Secret Service agents, and now Private Investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell were first introduced in Baldacci’s “Split Second”, then readers were surprised (Baldacci’s previous books were all stand-alone) when they appeared again in the “Hour Game”. Continuing the King / Maxwell series, “Simple…

  • Book Review: “The Last Spymaster” by Gayle Lynds

    Book Review: “The Last Spymaster” by Gayle Lynds

    Genre: Thriller: Espionage Rating: 4 Water Towers ++++ Once or twice a year our family heads out to one of the coastal beaches (one that allows dogs) south of Half Moon Bay. On the way back, we stop in a little strip mall in Half Moon Bay where there is a great little book store…

  • Book Review: “Excavation” by James Rollins

    Book Review: “Excavation” by James Rollins

    Genre: Thriller: Adventure James Rollins has a great imagination. This is, I think, the 4th book of his I have read and Excavation did not disappoint. In 1538, in the Andes Mountains in Peru, Friar Francisco de Almagro is running for his life from Inca warriors. He just escaped his fate (death) to try to…