Highfire by Eoin Colfer This is a charmingly original contemporary fantasy about a teenage boy and a dragon living in the swamp in Louisiana. The dragon, Verne, is the last of his kind and is holed up surviving but not thriving on an island in the bayou, ordering Flashdance tee shirts off Amazon, drinking vodka, …
Tag: drug
Sep 16
Book Review: Orange is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman Yes, I read this because I enjoyed the television show that was based off of this memoir. So let’s just get that out of the way. I know they say “never judge a book by its movie” which also goes for television shows, but for me it’s …
Jun 14
Book Review: Hero to Zero
Hero To Zero by Zach Fortier I got this off bookbub, figuring that I was willing to take a chance on a free book. It’s exactly as promised: stories of cops who went from excelling in their career to being persona-non-grata, usually because of hubris. Fortier has a direct style of writing. For the most …
Oct 26
Book Review: Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Schlosser wrote FAST FOOD NATION, which I felt was well researched but lacked consistent writing. I figured he might be a better writer by now, so I picked up REEFER MADNESS, the perhaps poorly-named book that is not strictly about …
Feb 23
Book Review: Anatomy of an Epidemic
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker This book is written with an agenda, and I usually don’t like one-sided arguments, but in this case, the argument is one that I was already disposed to believe: namely, that taking mind-altering drugs does …