A hundred drunken drivers gather in Washington DC for a cross country race. With a million dollars and a new liver hanging in the balance, who will claim the prize? Will it be Will, the wine enthusiast with a daughter in the hospital? Or two second string racers looking to make names for themselv...
Wishful Thinking is an anthology about wishes and the horror of those wishes when they come to reality. I wanted to be properly prepared for my interview so I took an opportunity to skip ahead to a short in this anthology entitled The Gift. The Gift beautifully captures the community of a dysfunct...
So, this week, I was hopped up on cold medicine. The kind that come in tabs and disolve in four ounces of water. I was under the weather and sleeping a lot, so I needed to read something, errr...shorter, so I chose this book and I'm really glad I did because it was a fun journey to take while not be...
Imagine, if you will, a graphic novel without the graphics—a novel so cinematic that every image is vivid, leaping from the page. Now, further imagine that that graphic novel had a plot developed by Cormac McCarthy, perhaps, with videographic expectations for a production collaboration by say, Sam P...
4.5 starsIf you’ve just read the book synopsis you might've paused, shook your head, and decided to re-read it again because undoubtedly this is not a book about mafia fruit wars and a donut dealer killer who is dating a kiwi? Since this is bizarro, it kind of is, but in the metaphorical sense, rig...
In a world where much of the fruit has become sentient due to a horticultural genius's experiments going out of control, fruit and humans struggle to live in harmony. When Charles witnesses a banana and apple killing each other in the doughnut shop where he works, he seizes the briefcase and the bu...
This book is about the "Time to make the doughnuts!" guy in a world of fruit-people.Hendrixson is good at writing characters; so much so that I don't even know if the story matters here, I was just interested in seeing how everyone made it through. This is good, considering I became unconcerned wit...