The Kama Pootra

I must admit, it does have some very interesting ways to pinch a loaf.

INSiDE BSO : New Book Is Causing A Major Stir

A new book titled., “Inside The Broward Sheriffs Office” promises to reveal secrets of corruption and is already causing a shit storm with political (more...)

10 Laws To Live By:

Dr. Phil explains 10 strategies needed for a better life. Makes a lot of sense, to be quite honest. Life Law #1: You either get it or you don’t. Strategy: Become one of those who gets it.   Life Law #2: You create your own experience. Strategy: Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life. Understand your role in creating results.   Life Law #3: People do what works. Strategy: Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others.   Life Law #4: You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. Strategy: Get real with yourself about life and (more...)

The Guilty Plea, by Robert Rotenberg

  A wealthy socialite and a Filipina maid, a Hollywood mistress and a cutthroat reporter, lawyers, cops, and a vengeful, powerful family all vie for your attention in this fast paced narrative. With his second novel, The Guilty Plea, Robert Rotenberg has crafted a tense, dramatic legal thriller that promises, in spite of the plea, to keep you guessing until the very last page. Samantha Wyler, the estranged wife of an heir to the Wyler Foods fortune, is arrested for murder when her husband, Terrence Wyler, turns up dead on the eve of the commencement of their high-profile divorce trial. Rotenberg, (more...)

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

Where to even begin with a book that manages to bewilder and entertain with the sheer caliber and epic talent and beauty it contains? In, Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann has managed, without ever mentioning the tragedy itself, to write the epitome of a post 9/11 New York City opus. Winner of the 2011 Impac Dublin Literary Award, and deserving in every sense of that honor, McCann has just skipped rungs, whole floors on an artist’s climb to greatness, landing himself with the agility of a funambulist on that lonely, lofty pedestal with this one perfect book. Beginning with a true (more...)

Galore, by Michael Crummey

Galore indeed. Michael Crummey, with his third novel, serves up a whole heaping fish-bucket full of fantastical characters and larger than life, mythical tales that serve to dazzle and astound the reader. For fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Galore will be a reminiscence of sorts, as Crummey makes no bones of his emulation of that master of magic realism. But that’s where the similarities end. Crummey’s masterpiece, a recent finalist for the prestigious Impac Dublin Award, chronicles several generations of harsh life in the imagined history of two eccentric families, the Devines and (more...)

TONS OF FREE COMIC BOOK DAY DETAILS! + NEW RELEASES AT ZALDIVA!

Hey everybody, it’s time for another edition of the ZALDIVA COMICS & COLLECTIBLES weekly newsletter! It’s NEW RELEASE DAY here at the shop, (more...)

Arson and Murder on Lauderdale Beach!

 Our picturesque beach community may never be the same. I have always believed that you don’t choose the books you read, they somehow find a way to choose you. And this one certainly did. Brady’s Run, a raucous hurricane of a mystery thriller set in Fort Lauderdale, made its way to my hands by an interesting sequence of events. My aunt and uncle, while on a recent visit, made their way one glorious Sunday afternoon to Lauderdale Beach for a day of sand and surf. Basking like lizards, they struck up a conversation with the couple in the neighboring plot of sand. Joseph Collum and his wife (more...)

The Kindle Conflagration Mea Culpa

I’ve never been a man who enjoyed a good ol’ book burn. I’ve always been of the opinion that even the worst, most vile books have something to teach us, if nothing more than not to read vile books. The animated discussion on yesterday’s post got me wondering if I was, in roasting me up some kindles, a bit too harsh. Granted, they don’t burn as well as paper. I imagine they bubble and ooze some black goo before giving up the ghost. But they do, as some very enthusiastic responses reminded me, contain books. And ultimately, on whichever side you find yourself (more...)

Throw Some Kindle on that Fire!

A recent post by a fellow contributor, Charles Hussell, led me to a rather prolonged perambulation through two very intriguing blogs – Big Al’s Books and Pals, and Red Adept. Both specialize in the review and promotion of “Indie” authors and both deal almost entirely in eBook format. What? Book sites without any real, tangible books? Nonsense! Here lies the rub: I’ve made no secret of my distaste of these parasitic e-gremlins which threaten to preserve the trees and forever eradicate my beloved books. But these two blogs may have helped sway me to a slightly less severe condemnation (more...)

Canadian Prime Minister Candidate a Sex Machine?

Michael Ignatieff, the Canadian Liberal Leader, has worn many hats in his long and prosperous career. The former Harvard Professor, human rights champion, historian, (more...)

See David Sedaris Live At Fort Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse

David Sedaris, the wildly witty and self deprecating humorist, author and radio personality, appears live at Fort Lauderdale’s Parker Playhouse on Friday, (more...)

And to Think Jesus Wanted to be a Carpenter

In spite of an audience increasingly distracted, writers continue to write. For the vast majority of them, there’s probably more money in recycling diapers, and (more...)

The Pioneers of Lusty Literature: How Our Forefathers Got Their Jollies

Things were simpler before the advent of computers. Little boys stole their father’s well worn Playboys and snuck off to learn the facts of life. They were reading the stories, of course, an art long since lost on our bandwidth-bombarded brains. Now, all google-eyed with the marvels of modern technology, we can enjoy such an overload of lubricious content that the will to read or work for one’s pleasure has become all but extinct. But once upon a time – before Hugh Hefner even, if we can imagine that -there existed other means of tickling one’s concupiscent whims. Did (more...)

“N” Words Mysteriously Vanish from Huckleberry Finn

The strangest epidemic has swept across the South – a curiously invasive plague that has wiped out every “N” word in Mark Twain’s immortal, (more...)

The Origin, by Irving Stone – A Review

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson Great books remain relevant for a reason – because they teach us something. They better us; broaden our understanding of the world and its many fascinating inhabitants. And for that reason they deserve to be re-introduced, from time to time, so they may find in this vast ocean of distractions, some few new fertile islets upon which to propagate. One such enduring saga is Irving Stone’s 1980 exploration of the life of Charles Darwin, The Origin. So much more than a fictional biography of one of the (more...)

A Douchebags Guide to Books, or, How to Seem Less Dense

We all know one, maybe several. Maybe, in fact, we are one, in the eyes of those who know us: The Douchebag – that loveably ignorant, pretty, muscle-bound bag (more...)