Although I was only two years old when some of the biggest music stars on the planet gathered in one room to help alleviate the horrific …
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Brats
Spearheaded, directed, and starring Andrew McCarthy – a card carrying member of the notorious 1980s group of up-and-coming actors deemed the …
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story
I’ve always liked Bon Jovi – my cousins were huge fans so we always listened to the band as kids. Songs like “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “It’s My …
Lessons in Chemistry
This book broke my heart but I loved it. It broke my heart because the way women were treated in the 1950s and 1960s was bullshit. Because …
The River
Peter Heller is nothing if not consistent. The River is the third Heller book I’ve read and it was similar to the other two (The Painter and …
Shit, Actually
Lindy West is a little kooky. But she is also very clever and very funny. In her book, Shit, Actually: The Definitive 100% Objective Guide …
Yellowface
An Asian author writing as a white writer who steals a manuscript from her recently deceased Asian writer friend and then sort of pretends …
Sedona Forever
As most people have heard me say, I adopted Sedona from a shelter in Denver when I was 25 years old. She was 10 months old, skinny, and …
Celine
A few months ago, a bookseller at our local bookstore suggested reading work by Peter Heller – a Colorado resident who writes thrillers that …
Why They Can’t Write
Wow that’s a loaded title! And here the subtitle: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. It’s obvious why I wanted to …