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Book Review: Creature Feature by Steven Paul Leiva
THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENING IN PLACIDVILLE! It is 1962. Kathy Anderson, a serious actress who took her training at the Actors Studio in New York, is stuck playing Vivacia, the Vampire Woman on Vivacia’s House of Horrors for a local Chicago TV station. Finally fed up showing old monster movies to creature feature fans, she quits and heads to New York and the fame and footlights of Broadway. She stops off to visit her parents and old friends in Placidville, the all-Ameican, middle-class, blissfully normal Midwest small town she grew up in. But she finds things are strange in…
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Book Review: Toonopolis: Gemini by Jeremy Rodden
Media Type: Ebook Title: Toonopolis: Gemini *Series: Toonopolis Files #1 Author: Jeremy Rodden Publisher: Portmanteau Press LLC Pages: Paperback; 314 Release Date: May 1, 2011 Source: Author ———————————————- Genre: Humor / Adventure HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy humorous stories with larger than life characters, and a ton of cartoon references! Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Toonopolis is a cartoon city that is home to the thoughts and ideas of all sentient beings in the universe. As the center of the Tooniverse, it acts as an other-worldly rest stop for…
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Book Review: B.S., Incorporated by Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss
Media Type: Ebook Title: B.S, Incorporated Author: Jennifer ROck and Michael Voss Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing Pages: Paperback; 334 Release Date: May 17, 2016 Source: Book Publicity Services ——————————————– Genre: Humor, Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Anyone who enjoys some insight into the craziness that is corporate America. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Business Solutions, Inc. is falling apart at the seams. While employees kill time stalking free snacks and filming porn in the HQ stairwells, the company’s co-CEOs bring in shadowy corporate consultants to shake up their business in ways even they don’t understand. As the communications manager tasked with translating C-suite doublespeak, Will Evans…
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Book Review: Fat Ballet by T.R. Whittier
Media Type: Ebook Title: Fat Ballet Author: T.R. Whittier Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 230 Release Date: June 25, 2015 Source: Author —————————————— Genre: Contemporary / Humor HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy books that are sweet, light-hearted, and still deal with real world characters. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes It’s not easy being Olga Dolovich. Orphaned at a time when she had only just begun to appreciate her parents, tormented by her beautiful-but-bitchy sex goddess of a sister, and doomed to clean the world’s dirtiest bathroom, Olga doesn’t exactly lead a…
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Book Review: Tempestuous
Media Type: Print Book Title: Tempestuous Author: Kim Askew & Amy Helmes Publisher: Merit Press Pages: Hardcover; 224 Release Date: December 18, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy modern day retellings of classic stories, and fun plots. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Recently banished, unfairly, by the school’s popular crowd, former “it girl,” Miranda Prospero, finds herself in a brave new world: holding dominion amongst a rag-tag crew of geeks and misfits where she works at the Hot-Dog Kabob in the…
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Book Review: Bears, Recycling, and Confusing Time Paradoxes
Media Type: Ebook Title: Bears, Recycling and Confusing Time Paradoxes Author: Greg X. Graves Publisher: 1889 Labs Pages: Paperback; 168 Release Date: April 1, 2011 Source: Author ————————————– Genre: Um? Hilarity? HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for some ridiculous fun! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N / Smashwords Do you want to recycle but aren’t sure how? Are you concerned that a potential suitor may be a vampire? Have you attended a job interview only to be greeted by Hideous Telepathic Space-faring Lizardmen in Mansuits? The Guide to Moral Living in Examples educates on these and many more common moral conundrums,…
