I loved this book. I'm trying to decide if the author is a serious cat hater or lover. full review to come.
WELCOME TO THE BLACK MOUNTAIN CAMP FOR BOYS! Summer, 1989. It is a time for splashing in the lake and exploring the wilderness, for nine teenagers to bond together and create friendships that could last the rest of their lives.But among this group there is a young man with a secret--a secret that,...
We've all been there as a kid. You,me, all of us. Chances are we weren't the bully, but we were around when the bully picked his next victim - and we breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn't us. Maybe the victims was the new kid. Maybe they dressed different or talked different. Maybe they stuttered...
As a student at Queens University Belfast in the mid 70's I was privileged to be selected to act as a "counsellor" on the Camp America scheme. I spent a very happy 10 weeks working with underprivileged kids at Camp Sebago just south of Portland in the Pine Tree State of Maine. This was a very close...
Odd Man Out by James Newman is for the faint of heart. It's for the bigots and the racists and it's also for the humanitarians, for people who do their best to be good people. It's for anyone who has ever had oxygen in their lungs and blood in their veins. It's a story that could be yours or mine......
"…meanness festers. Like malignant cells eating away at bone marrow. And the more it consumes, the hungrier it gets."A very difficult and emotional read. I could see the events unfolding and felt powerless as they played out before me. Intolerance, hate and bullying are difficult subjects to tackle....
Synopsis: From the author of THE SPECIMEN: A NOVEL OF HORROR (which I might add just moved up on my tbr list)Caitlyn has never met anyone like Trevor. He was kind, intelligent, sexy and he loved nature. Who cared if she had horrible allergies? That shouldn't keep them apart. She knew he was the...
What can I say about this beautiful, bodacious beast of a book?I haven't been this impressed with an anthology since Kirby McCauley's DARK FORCES.800+ pages47 storiesSomething for every taste, and not a single sour apple in the basket.Tales gathered together from the best in the genre, from the old ...
First of the mark. This story Grips you I can't Get over how this is the authors 1st novel From the description:From a crater lake on an island off the coast of Bronze Age Estonia... To a crippled Viking warrior's conquest of England... To the bloody temple of an Aztec god of death and resurrection....