Razor Girl So, I’m breaking one of my rules here:The one where I avoid new books. Rules are made to be broken after all, right? Carl Hiaasen is back with is vintage Only in Florida humor and Razor Girl harkens back to vintage Hiaasen style, ala:Sick PuppyTourist SeasonStormy WeatherSkin TightRazor Girl Razor Girl is Hiaasen […]
Date Expectations
Date Expectations Juliana Gribbinshas written a collection of essays in her book Date Expectations, that are by turns riotously funny and surreal. Collected from a column Ms Gribbins wrote for Shore Publishing after the dissolution of her marriage, the essays turned out cathartic for her. Some are award winning. All are fun to read. Whether […]
Light Fiction
The Prince of Nantucket.Jan GoldsteinTeddy, a Los Angeles lawyer on his way up is suddenly summoned home to Nantucket to care for his ailing mother. Tagging along for the trip is Teddy’s young daughter. It’s the last place a young girl wants to spend her summer. Teddy is being groomed for a senate race and […]
Young Adult/Fantasy
Wish ListEoin Colfer From the description and plot of Wish List you certainly wouldn’t expect a humorous stomach clutching laugh filled ride. That’s what you’ll get if you follow Meg Finn and her partner in crime, Belch as they run from one criminal event to the next. In one such crime, events go so awry […]
Florida Writers
In The Grand Tree of Florida writers, the father of all Florida writers is Carl Hiaasen When I worked at RJ Julia, for several years before moving across the street to The Scranton Library, a friend of mine had come up to the cash register with his new book called Sick Puppy. As I do […]