A standard format for many novels is to create a few individual characters set apart from each other, and then use the plotlines of the book to draw them closer and closer together until they clash at the climax. The danger in this sort of writing is to take too much time with the setup, […]
“The Adventures of Lord Bolingbroke” by Joshua Catchatoor
This review could be summed up economically by a single quote. The Preface contains one short sentence; “This is quite a silly book.” And thus prepared, we dive into a novel best described as Monty Python with the silliness level set on steroids. Especially in the opening chapters, bodily functions figure largely in the action, […]
“Squabble of the Titans” by Justin Teerlinck
Where to start? This book is a work of great creativity and considerable variety: part documentary, part satire, part cartoon, part Science Fiction, quasi-historical and in total quite undefinable. However, I will try. The story is revealed in a series of letters between Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, his family and supporters, […]
“The Book of Origins: Rude Tales from the Big Bang to the Big Now” by Lawrence Millman
REVIEW Flash fiction is a relatively new genre of writing, usually limited to somewhere between 200 and 1,000 words. Mr. Millman has written a collection of these and put them in one slim volume for our enjoyment. It contains about 60 stories of a length from three pages down to not much longer than the […]