Deborah de Lille is an opera singer—in the least grand sense. Debbie doesn’t foresee a future beyond Handel Messiahs and low-budget tours … until her agent finagles her a minor role with a small-town company. The artists assembled for this production of Offenbach’s spooky opera, Tales of Hoffmann, have more than opera on their minds. [CONTINUE READING]
Jul 052011
It’s the Summer of Gomez! Get free books and win a Kindle or iPod. As reviewers have been calling “No Hope for Gomez!” the perfect summer read – light, fast, fun – I decided to give this summer’s Gomez readers some exclusive content and the chance to win prizes. About No Hope for Gomez! It’s [CONTINUE READING]
Jun 242011
They say, you can tell a lot about someone by what they read. Perhaps that is so. I thought I’d share with you what’s on my shelves. You tell me if you can figure out who I am by my books. For I think if you pay close attention or look closely, you’ll be able [CONTINUE READING]
Prepare to embark on a thrilling comedic adventure seen through the booze-blurred eyes of Keesey Cypher, a government-trained killer with an ill-fated abundance of classified memories who has since resigned himself to a regrettable existence, sipping away his tainted past. It is this powerful thirst coupled with Cypher’s hunger for games of chance that leads [CONTINUE READING]
Jan 032011
Ooh it’s the first Mailbox Monday of the new year! Today’s MM is a showcase of the new books that came into my mailbox since the 21st. Some of these books were my own personal buys or gifts to me as well as some from the authors or publishers. Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers [CONTINUE READING]
TITLE: Everything Hurts AUTHOR: Bill Scheft PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster PUBLICATION DATE: April 7, 2009 PAGES: 288 GENRE: Fiction, Political Humor Phil Camp has a problem. Not the fact that he wrote a parody of a self-help book (Where Can I Stow My Baggage?) that the world took seriously and became an international bestseller. And [CONTINUE READING]
President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won’t have the guts to reject her — Judge Pepper [CONTINUE READING]
