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“When someone you love dies, should you masturbate?” – Opening line, “Prescription for Grief” I have to admit, as I have so many times before, that I am a sucker for covers. If I’m in a bookshop and I happen to spot, out of the corner of my eye, a title I am completely unknowledgeable [...]
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Tale of the Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater
June 16th, 2010 
Jessica Brown I’ve been a hardcore book lover since childhood. At some point, whether in childhood or my early teens, certain preferences began to rule over my choices in reading material. I found myself reading mostly horror, with a concentration on vampires, and for years that’s all I paid attention to. If I went to the local [...]
John Dies at the End by David Wong
June 13th, 2010 Jessica Brown [Note: Review originally appeared on New Reads and Old Standbys in December 2009.] Sometimes you hear about a book through word of mouth, not through reviews or advertisements, and it seems so interesting that you immediately go out and pick up a copy to find out for yourself just what this work is all about. [...]
Dead Eye: Pennies for the Ferryman by Jim Bernheimer
June 1st, 2010 Jessica Brown I am relatively new to this whole “urban fantasy” thing. I’ll come right out and admit that the Jim Butcher novel I’ve owed for several years is still sitting unread on my shelf (as is the Sookie Stackhouse book – hey, there’s only so much time in a day. I’ll get around to it eventually.) [...]
The Reviewer as Scattered Woman
May 22nd, 2010 Jessica Brown I’ve been a very bad reviewer as of late. There are reasons for this, some acceptable and some not so much. On the legitimate front, I had a difficult semester with two intense lecture/lab combinations that left my daytime schedule rather full. In the evenings, I had work until bedtime. I still do, most nights. [...]
Eleven Twenty-Three by Jason S. Hornsby
April 2nd, 2010 Jessica Brown Being a book reviewer certainly has its perks. I recently read and reviewed Jason S. Hornsby’s Every Sigh, the End, a wonderfully dense and thoroughly acidic take on both popular culture and apocalyptic paranoia. Since reading ESTE, I’d heard that he’d been working on a second novel, and had even read a free download of [...]
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No Comments »Nightlight by The Harvard Lampoon
March 28th, 2010 Jessica Brown [Note: Review originally appeared on New Reads and Old Standbys in December 2009.] Sometimes you’ve got to hate something to appreciate the jokes about it. I was late to the Twilight party. I didn’t get caught up in it until the fourth book was about to be released, picking up a softcover copy of the [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews Tags: Nightlight, satire, The Harvard Lampoon, Twilight 2 Comments »The Order of the Bull by Jason Brannon
February 4th, 2010 Jessica Brown The Order of the Bull Jason Brannon Corpulent Insanity Press $10.00 I started writing seriously (or at least as seriously as a teenaged girl can) back in the 1990s, and that time period holds an amazing amount of nostalgia for me. In a way, I don’t think that decade’s ever completely left my system. I [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews Tags: chapbook, Corpulent Insanity Press, Jason Brannon, The Order of the Bull 2 Comments »Every Sigh, the End by Jason S. Hornsby
January 27th, 2010 Jessica Brown Every Sigh, the End: A Novel About Zombies Jason S. Hornsby Permuted Press $15.95 Rarely do I come away from a novel feeling like I’ve just received an ass kicking. I’ve read books that lead me to believe I wasn’t the intended audience the author had in mind, books that were too pretentious for their [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews Tags: Every Sigh the End, Jason S. Hornsby, Permuted Press, zombies No Comments »
