Sunday, January 31, 2016
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Garage Band, by Michael Tavon
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Garage Band, by Michael Tavon: BOOK REVIEW: Garage Band (The Legend of Dookie Harris), by Michael Tavon Garage Band Single layered short story and the first book publi...
BOOK REVIEW: Garage Band, by Michael Tavon
BOOK REVIEW: Garage Band (The Legend of Dookie Harris), by Michael Tavon
Garage Band
Single layered short story and the first book published by Michael. A group of misfits who formed a band in high school and disassembled it after graduation, based on their disastrous performances at the prom, reunite after running into each other years later.
Each had their own set of issues as they stumbled through life. Did the universe speak or was the school reunion the flame that brought them together again. Memories, alcohol, marijuana and laughs, sometimes funny, sometimes pitiful but it held an important lesson to be learned.
Told in a narrative form, more or less, and in a matter-of-fact way, the character that was most entertaining to me was Hasheeb and his struggles with his virginity, as old as he was, along with his crude pick-up lines. I can’t even imagine what I would do if someone approached me the way he approached women.
The author can tell a story but for me, I like complexity and this did lack that element, but in the end…
Read the book for yourself to get the full impact!
Reviewed by: Connie Jordan
January 30, 2016
Garage BandSingle layered short story and the first book published by Michael. A group of misfits who formed a band in high school and disassembled it after graduation, based on their disastrous performances at the prom, reunite after running into each other years later.
Each had their own set of issues as they stumbled through life. Did the universe speak or was the school reunion the flame that brought them together again. Memories, alcohol, marijuana and laughs, sometimes funny, sometimes pitiful but it held an important lesson to be learned.
Told in a narrative form, more or less, and in a matter-of-fact way, the character that was most entertaining to me was Hasheeb and his struggles with his virginity, as old as he was, along with his crude pick-up lines. I can’t even imagine what I would do if someone approached me the way he approached women.
The author can tell a story but for me, I like complexity and this did lack that element, but in the end…
Read the book for yourself to get the full impact!
Reviewed by: Connie Jordan
January 30, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Further Explorations, by David Russe...
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Further Explorations, by David Russe...: BOOK REVIEW: Further Explorations , by David Russell Further Explorations Janice and Cedric, from Russell's previous book Explo...
BOOK REVIEW: Further Explorations, by David Russell
BOOK REVIEW: Further Explorations, by David Russell
Further Explorations
Janice and Cedric, from Russell's previous book Explorations, are at it again, the more risky the encounter the more fire it held. At times I felt as though their sexual temperature intensified by separation, leaving them free to indulge with others and report back to each other, via e-mails, their specific adventures. Then they dove deeper by becoming swingers which took them to a higher level.
The experiment was intensified by the different liaisons each had apart from each other, and by those retro fashions, especially when spiced with a layer of high culture, which could generally be relied on to frighten off a lot of the less desirable company but left a bit of stuffiness that is all to common with high culture.
For both Cedric and Janice, living the lives they led born of ambition and the need to achieve the “pressure from each side was stifling. But when they buffeted into each other, the opposition of their sides was cancelled out.” In this arena they were free to experience the carnality of their desires unabashedly.
They both always operated from the position of cool ‘detachment’ in their daily lives, “but what a turn-on they got when something could really shake it, deliciously galvanized by fear!” Old time fashion added a certain arousal to the game as did Cedric’s hint of androgyny and Janice’s near-boyish form.
For me, the flow was too mechanical to be sensual. It seemed more like an intimacy of two intellectual minds as opposed to intimacy of two bodies melding in sensual pleasure. My preference for sensuality allows for the journey to be relatable, something I have fantasized about or experienced up close and personal.
Instead what I got was the hope that with the next turn of the page sensuality would be exposed in a meadow of flowers or on a beach with the waves symbolizing the crash against skin and the rising of passion leading to the explosion intensified by a vortex of total surrender – which I imagine they experienced on some level as they traveled the world seeking potential partners. But all of that was disguised in words that belied the true experience of the coupling.
Reviewed by: Connie Jordan
January 21, 2016
Further ExplorationsJanice and Cedric, from Russell's previous book Explorations, are at it again, the more risky the encounter the more fire it held. At times I felt as though their sexual temperature intensified by separation, leaving them free to indulge with others and report back to each other, via e-mails, their specific adventures. Then they dove deeper by becoming swingers which took them to a higher level.
The experiment was intensified by the different liaisons each had apart from each other, and by those retro fashions, especially when spiced with a layer of high culture, which could generally be relied on to frighten off a lot of the less desirable company but left a bit of stuffiness that is all to common with high culture.
For both Cedric and Janice, living the lives they led born of ambition and the need to achieve the “pressure from each side was stifling. But when they buffeted into each other, the opposition of their sides was cancelled out.” In this arena they were free to experience the carnality of their desires unabashedly.
They both always operated from the position of cool ‘detachment’ in their daily lives, “but what a turn-on they got when something could really shake it, deliciously galvanized by fear!” Old time fashion added a certain arousal to the game as did Cedric’s hint of androgyny and Janice’s near-boyish form.
For me, the flow was too mechanical to be sensual. It seemed more like an intimacy of two intellectual minds as opposed to intimacy of two bodies melding in sensual pleasure. My preference for sensuality allows for the journey to be relatable, something I have fantasized about or experienced up close and personal.
Instead what I got was the hope that with the next turn of the page sensuality would be exposed in a meadow of flowers or on a beach with the waves symbolizing the crash against skin and the rising of passion leading to the explosion intensified by a vortex of total surrender – which I imagine they experienced on some level as they traveled the world seeking potential partners. But all of that was disguised in words that belied the true experience of the coupling.
Reviewed by: Connie Jordan
January 21, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Heat, by Holly S. Roberts
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Heat, by Holly S. Roberts: BOOK REVIEW: Heat , by Holly S. Roberts HEAT This is the perfect name for this book, Heat . Mak, an ex-cop by circumstances with ...
BOOK REVIEW: Heat, by Holly S. Roberts
BOOK REVIEW: Heat, by Holly S. Roberts
HEAT
This is the perfect name for this book, Heat. Mak, an ex-cop by circumstances with a need to pay her bills, becomes a PI. She is tough, smart-mouthed but human based on the tears she sheds.
There is so much packed into this two hundred and forty page book; from Mexican cartels, drugs, guns, women of the night, violence, murder and sex. It is the convergence of all the evils in the world. Then there is love and Heat at first sight.
Written as though a narrative with the occasional conversation between the characters, it flows along and takes you on a journey of nerve wracking scenarios, humor and survival. Not a lot of fluff just details of thoughts, actions and emotion!!
What really determines ‘good’ in this world more to the point can a criminal be a good person? Explore the possibilities by reading this book. I related to her style of talking, her inner struggles, her thought process and her courage in the face of so many different situations.
This, for me, was truly a good story, with characters that are real and constant excitement, on one level or another. The thing I enjoyed most was that it was a short read but it was packed with everything needed to be relatable!!
Reviewed by: Connie Jordan
January 21, 2016
HEATThis is the perfect name for this book, Heat. Mak, an ex-cop by circumstances with a need to pay her bills, becomes a PI. She is tough, smart-mouthed but human based on the tears she sheds.
There is so much packed into this two hundred and forty page book; from Mexican cartels, drugs, guns, women of the night, violence, murder and sex. It is the convergence of all the evils in the world. Then there is love and Heat at first sight.
Written as though a narrative with the occasional conversation between the characters, it flows along and takes you on a journey of nerve wracking scenarios, humor and survival. Not a lot of fluff just details of thoughts, actions and emotion!!
What really determines ‘good’ in this world more to the point can a criminal be a good person? Explore the possibilities by reading this book. I related to her style of talking, her inner struggles, her thought process and her courage in the face of so many different situations.
This, for me, was truly a good story, with characters that are real and constant excitement, on one level or another. The thing I enjoyed most was that it was a short read but it was packed with everything needed to be relatable!!
Reviewed by: Connie Jordan
January 21, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Redneck, by Clayton Williamson
Something to Think About: BOOK REVIEW: Redneck, by Clayton Williamson: BOOK REVIEW: Redneck , by Clayton Williamson Redneck I’m surprised at me for even agreeing to reading this but I have to admit I go...
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