Reviews

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack Bur­ton & Swin­burne Tril­ogy Book 1 (Ama­zon, Goodreads) by Mark Hod­der (Ama­zon, Face­book, Goodreads, Web­site, Twit­ter) Pub­lished by Pyr, Sep­tem­ber 2010 Lon­don, 1861. Sir Richard Fran­cis Burton—explorer, lin­guist, scholar, and swords­man; his rep­u­ta­tion tar­nished; his career in tat­ters; his for­mer part­ner miss­ing and prob­a­bly dead. Alger­non Charles Swinburne—unsuccessful poet and fol­lower of […]

Fallen (Ama­zon, Goodreads) by Karin Slaugh­ter (Ama­zon, Goodreads, Web­site) Pub­lished by AudioGO Jule 2011 There’s no police train­ing stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answer­ing her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a blood­stain above the knob. Her infant daugh­ter is hid­den in a shed behind the house. All that the Geor­gia Bureau of Investigations […]

Cof­fee Talk: The Stim­u­lat­ing Story of the World’s Most Pop­u­lar Brew (Ama­zon, Goodreads) by Mor­ton Satin (Ama­zon, Goodreads) Pub­lished by Prometheus Books Novem­ber 2010 What is it about cof­fee that makes it so pop­u­lar across so many dif­fer­ent cul­tures? Can it be the caf­feine or is there some­thing else about cof­fee that makes it so allur­ing? No beverage […]