Book Reviews
Review: Love Maps
Love Maps displays the love for your family, the love you have for your children and finally for the one you love—which is the only one you get to choose. … read more
Review: The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
The Splendid Things We Planned is a deeply felt, one-punch chronicling of familial love—its contradictions and limits—and the spectacular things we do to, and for, the people we love. … read more
Review: Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread
In Palahniuk’s recent book of short stories, Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread, Palahniuk takes this world and smashes it into little beings that start to exist in your head whether you like it or not. … read more
Review: Crate Digger: An Obsession With Punk Records
Crate Digger is an excellent, fun and engaging read. It is the story of Burrito Records’ Bob Suren’s life of collecting punk records, playing music, running a record store/label, and succeeding and failing. … read more
Review: Uncle John’s Lists That Make You Go Hmmm…
Aside from their massive tomes of knowledge, the Uncle John’s series has also had a grand catalog of oddity books that, while they may not fit into the regular series, prove to be informational and fun. Lists That Make You Go Hmmm… is a great example of an era long gone with the random fact-checking of Wikipedia and Google. … read more
Review: WWE: The Attitude Era
Let’s get one bold statement out of the way: I didn’t just watch the Attitude Era—I experienced it. I got what is considered by many—both financially and creatively—the best time to be a wrestling fan during my late teens and early adult years. … read more
Review: The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson...
Do you ever wonder how well Thomas Jefferson and George Washington got along, or how the other Founding Fathers played off each other during the early founding of the U.S.? I didn’t, and I’m an American History geek—hell I’m a political junkie too. … read more
Review: Heritage of Cyador
L.E. Modesitt plays a long game with his Saga of Recluse series. Eighteen novels into this epic tale, Heritage of Cyador continues with the exploits of the grey mage Lerial, whose aid in the defeat of the Afritan army in Cyador’s Heirs turns out to be far from decisive. … read more
Review: 33 1/3: Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
Ask any gamer what the most iconic piece of music in gaming history is and you’ll probably get one of three answers: Legend Of Zelda, Tetris and Super Mario Bros., with the last one being the first most spoken of. … read more
Review: Love Child
Love Child is a photo journal dedicated to the skate culture of Israel. However, the photography does not showcase skateboarding—nobody lands any tricks, and very few capture moments of the act of skating itself. … read more