If Hope Never Dies does not win Best Humor in the Goodreads awards for 2018, I will never again be able to regard them as real awards. The plot and a lot of characters are pretty stereotypical for a mystery or buddy-cop adventure, but it’s a lot of fun, like one of those Obama-Biden memes novelized. Not much as a serious mystery, but really entertaining. Think of the plot and main duo of any buddy-cop adventure: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker (Rush Hour), Danny Glover […]
Reunited and it feels so good
Had a bit of a dip in productivity there! I wasted way too long trying to read a book that was just too boring (gave up, no review) and then … I GOT ENGAGED! Yeah buddy your lowercase reviewer is getting HITCHED. So yes, I am shouting it from every rooftop I can find. He’s the best. We so happy. I’ve only heard my mother say “Took you long enough” once. Everything is wonderful. Me, IRL: But anyway. Y’all didn’t come here for my personal […]
The Audacity of Exposition
I don’t think the problem is that this isn’t a good book, I think it’s more that it really just isn’t my cup of tea. I kind of had a feeling this would be true, but it was at the library and it sounded like it could be fun so I gave it a go. I’m glad I did, I think this was a fun idea for the author to try, but if this ends up being a series I’ll probably stop here, because it […]
A Summer Bromance
I knew I was going to have to read this book when I saw the cover. I didn’t even know what it was about, but I knew I needed this. As it turns out, Hope Never Dies is a pretty good mystery featuring Joe Biden and Barack Obama as a crime solving duo. Uncle Joe narrates the story of his friend Finn’s suspicious death on an Amtrak line in Wilmington, Delaware. Writer Andrew Shaffer, in this his first mystery, unravels a tale of railway life, […]
Spectral Field Theory, ghosts, and ghost busting.
Part faux-autobiography, part non-fiction history of ghost hunting, Ghosts from Our Past is a lot of fun. Continue HERE!
Put this in your bug-out bag
My dad and I have deep love for really, really bad movies — especially those featuring monsters and/or explosions. I bought him How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters: Fight Back When Monsters and Mother Nature Attack for Christmas this year, and he lent it to me once he finished. It’s hysterical, and provided excellent relief from the other book I just finished, which was dark and decidedly not funny. “NOTE: In the rare situation a megatsunami washes a T. rex into your path, you won’t […]