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A unnamed narrator has a special gift. The ability to extract demons from people, to violently pull the being out of the host... There are only certain number (72,936) of demons in the entire world and they are immortal. And it is in the odds that our main character will run into a couple of... Continue Reading →
I first heard of Hank Green through his Crash Course YouTube videos. I had previewed a couple first and now use several in my classes. And after hearing about this book, his quirky personality was something I could see myself reading in novel form… Late one night April May is on the streets of Manhattan... Continue Reading →
A monster in the woods. Children lost. Children slaughtered. One boy survives and is blamed because the public needs answers. And then the monster hunter comes to the town of Archer's Peak. Several young men get together for a slumber party and they start to play a game of Truth or Dare... They aren't the... Continue Reading →
First off, that to Dave at espresso coco for recommending this stellar book! Secondly, I have a friend who did a teacher exchange in Scotland several years ago. Immediately after finishing this book I sent her an email about it. The very next day she downloaded it and zipped through it in a matter of hours.... Continue Reading →
*An essential read for fans of true crime.* Kate Winkler Dawson does a masterful job telling the story of Edward Oscar Heinrich, a man who became one of the first expert witnesses in the courtroom. She has the utmost ability to weave together his biographic information, the research behind many crime scene techniques, and several... Continue Reading →
How do some people get through so many books in a week, a month, or a year? What are the factors that enable readers to speedily flip pages or others to make those pages just stick together? 1. Interest in Topic/ Genre: Yeah, we've all had to read that science book or philosophy tome. "Read... Continue Reading →
Caution: Kinda a rambling review here... We've heard so many references to Lando's smuggling days in the films, and here's a story of the Millennium Falcon using that secret hold... crisscrossing the outer rim with valuable merchandise. Much of it illegal. Yet, Lando is in a pinch. He owes several debts to a couple bad... Continue Reading →
In Fell, NY there's a roadside motel that was built to accommodate the crowds for a promised amusement park... but that dream never came to be and for decades it has become a place of local legends, ghost stories, and several families' dark secrets. In 1982, Viv escapes her midwest upbringing to chase a dream... Continue Reading →
You ever seen one of those puzzles with a picture, but not colored in, just black lines on a white background? And then when you're done, you can get out the crayons or pencils and have at it... Welp, that is exactly how I felt reading The Last Day. I had no idea what the... Continue Reading →
