A well written text on a complex subject……. **** The issue of confrontation between the police and the black community is a major problem in this country. Understanding both sides is a necessary step to resolving a problem that has … Continue reading →
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water….. * Having been a long time fan of Connelly, and recently disappointed with his novels, I had hopes that this new series with a female protagonist would … Continue reading →
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Tupelo by Alec Clayton / 350 pages / paperback / 978-1537475370 Tupelo is Alec Clayton’s eighth book. Continue reading Book Review — Tupelo by Alec Clayton at Empty Mirror.
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/book-review-tupelo-alec-clayton.htmlSteve Aylett is Creative People’s Drug of Choice
The following is a modified version of the first essay in Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology (Sein und Werden, 2016), in which various authors discuss and analyze the work of Steve Aylett. Continue reading Steve Aylett is Creative People’s Drug of Choice at Empty Mirror.
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/steve-aylett-is-creative-peoples-drug-of-choice.htmlBook Review – Generation Hex: David Noone’s novella, Saint of the City
Saint of the City by David Noone, introduced by Cathi Unsworth / Murder Slim Press / March 2017 Lunging forwards with a series of rapid-fire blows to the gut masquerading as chapters, Saint of the City, the debut novella by David Noone, pulls no punches as it hurtles by in bare-knuckle women-and-wine confessional mode before
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Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song by Kara Vernor / Split Lip Press / 75 pages / ISBN: 978-0-9909035-7-4 “… this is what boys did to girls” My dad used to say there were two ways to enter the sea: you walk in slowly, bracing yourself against the cold. Continue reading Book
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Paul McCartney: The Life (US) by Philip Norman / Little, Brown and Company / 2016 / 978-0316327961 Paul McCartney: The Biography (UK) / Weidenfeld & Nicolson / 2016 / 978-0297870760 Soufflé-speak. Continue reading Paul McCartney: The Biography by Philip Norman – Book Review at Empty Mirror.
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/music/review-paul-mccartney-biography-philip-norman.htmlBook Review – In Whatever Light Left to Us by Jessica Jacobs
In Whatever Light Left To Us by Jessica Jacobs / Sibling Rivalry Press / ISBN: 978-1-943977-19-2 / 44 pages / 2016 Jessica Jacob’s In Whatever Light Left to Us, is a chapbook infused with the sensual world. Continue reading Book Review – In Whatever Light Left to Us by Jessica Jacobs at Empty Mirror.
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/in-whatever-light-left-to-us.htmlHeroin Haikus by William Wantling
Heroin Haikus by William Wantling / Tangerine Press / 2016 / 20 pages / 978-1-910691-18-2 William Wantling’s Heroin Haikus, out of print for fifty years, was recently published in a new edition by London’s Tangerine Press. Continue reading Heroin Haikus by William Wantling at Empty Mirror.
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/william-wantling-heroin-haikus.htmlBook Review: 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster / Henry Holt and Co. / 2017 / 880 pages / ISBN: 978-1627794466 It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Continue reading Book Review: 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster at Empty Mirror.
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/4-3-2-1-paul-auster.htmlBook review – Life is Unbearable: Grzegorz Wróblewski’s Zero Visibility
Zero Visibility by Grzegorz Wróblewski (trans. Piotr Gwiazda) / Phoneme Media / 136 pages / ISBN: 978-1944700126 We are constantly swamped with all sorts of products (books, music, movies, the news). Continue reading Book review – Life is Unbearable: Grzegorz Wróblewski’s Zero Visibility at Empty Mirror.
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/book-review-life-is-unbearable-grzegorz-wroblewskis-zero-visibility.htmlBook Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg edited by Michael Schumacher / University of Minnesota Press / March 17, 2017 / 978-0816699179 Michael Schumacher is one of the major scholars of Allen Ginsberg, and has thus far written the best biography of him, Dharma Lion. Continue reading Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
Read More from: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/beat/first-thought-conversations-allen-ginsberg.htmlReview: Give Me All by Roy Glenn
Sydney Clark and Rod Greenwood are former coworkers who meet up again when Rod returns to Jacksonville to live. Both of them have had their share of heartache, so they enter into a ‘no-strings attached’ agreement. We all know those don’t last long. In Give Me All, Roy brings together two characters that have
Read More from: http://romancenovelsincolor.com/2017/02/give-me-all-by-roy-glenn-2/Review: Good Old Soul from Love Stages By Aja & Angel
Aja and Angel team up to create Love Stages, two stories by two very compatible authors. I had the pleasure of reading Good Old Soul by Aja. This book is about a younger woman and an older man, who defy the odds and make love work for them. Good Old Soul takes place when Amina
Read More from: http://romancenovelsincolor.com/2017/02/review-good-old-soul-love-stages-aja-angel/Review: Playing with Desire by Reese Ryan
In Playing with Desire you meet Liam Westbrook and Maya Alvarez. Liam has been sent to North Carolina to oversee a project being run by his family. Maya is just trying to live life after a divorce with two kids. They meet when Maya is left at a restaurant to celebrate her birthday alone. From
Read More from: http://romancenovelsincolor.com/2017/03/playing-with-desire-by-reese-ryan/Review: Love by the Books by Te Russ
Starting over is always a little rough at times and that’s exactly what Carmen is doing. Venturing out on her own and trying to make a name for herself and her client without the big publishing house backing her. Her encounter with the gorgeous Sebastian, makes going to the bookstore a whole new experience. Carmen
Read More from: http://romancenovelsincolor.com/2017/03/review-love-books-te-russ/Review: Second Time’s A Charm by Kay Blake
Second Time’s A Charm by Kay Blake requires tissue, you will cry. Liz comes home to New York to say her last goodbye to her best friend. She had every intention of attending the funeral and then going back to California. But life always has a way of changing your plans. Liam, Liz and
Read More from: http://romancenovelsincolor.com/2017/03/second-times-a-charm-by-kay-blake-2/Review: Catch Me If I Fall (The Kim Brothers Book 1) by Kay Blake
An Interracial Contemporary Romance Novella Kasi: I have reached rock bottom. The kind of bottom that is so dark, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. There is nothing, but pain, loneliness and helpless despair. I didn’t picture my life going this way. I wasn’t supposed to be unhappy and broken. How
Read More from: http://romancenovelsincolor.com/2017/03/catch-me-if-i-fall-the-kim-brothers-book-1-by-kay-blake/Review: The Love Chronicles by Sheena Binkley
In The Love Chronicles you meet Andie and Dexter, two teenagers who have been friends since birth. This book takes you on a journey of them in their senior year of high school. Like typical high school, friends, frienemies and gossip come into play. Hidden behind all of the outside influences are two young
Read More from: http://romancenovelsincolor.com/2017/03/the-love-chronicles-by-sheena-binkley/Review: Time for Desire: Enchanted Keepsakes by Angie Daniels
Time for Desire: Enchanted Keepsakes, will have you driven to turning the pages of this book. This is something new for Angie Daniels and she nailed it. Rebekah “Becca” is transformed back in time and is now being seen as her grandmother, Anne. Powerhouse vocals, a set of girlfriends and Lenox, a man who
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