Carpet Sweeper Tales by Julie Doucet provides a new experience in comics through making the old absurd.
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Book Review: ‘How Performance Management Is Killing Performance – and What to Do About It’ by M. Tamra Chandler
"How Performance Management is Killing Performance - and What to do About It" by M. Tamra Chandler is a vital new book on how to rethink, redesign, and reboot performance management.
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: “Persia Blues,” Volume One and Two by Dara Naraghi and Brent Bowman
Persia Blues by Brent Bowman and Dara Naraghi contains the first two volumes of a Graphic Novel trilogy which blend life in modern Iran with a fantastic vision of ancient Persia.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Good Liar’ – A Novel of Suspense by Nicholas Searle
In The Good Liar by Nicolas Searle, Roy is a con-man finding and hooking up with elderly women on dating websites. He is calculating and cold, with a charm that just touches the surface as he finds the woman he is looking for. He will alternately woo her and then try to take her for all she is worth.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Violent Crimes’, An Amanda Jaffe Novel by Phillip Margolin
In "Violent Crimes" Amanda Jaffe is hired to represent the son of a senior partner at a large Oregon law firm. As Jaffe digs to find the answers she finds more than she bargained for. Digging deeper, even at the risk of her life, she must find the answers to this vicious murder.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Contract: Sicko’ A Sei Assassin Thriller by Ty Hutchinson
In Contract: Sicko, Ty Hutchinson brings us a stronger and more visceral Sei, a character at her wits end, beyond the thought of redemption, as she moves closer to finding the daughter kidnapped at birth.
Read More »Book Review: “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table—An American Story” by Ellen Wayland-Smith
Ellen Wayland-Smith, it seems, was born into a fascinating topic, and in "Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table—An American Story", she has made the most of it.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Lightkeepers: A Novel’ by Abby Geni
In "The Lightkeepers" by Abby Geni we see that when the trappings of civilization are stripped away humans are animals after all.
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: ‘Big Kids’ by Michael DeForge from Drawn & Quarterly
In Michael DeForge's "Big Kids" the narrator experiences a Kafka like change that will likely change the reader as well.
Read More »Book Review: ‘When Breath Becomes Air,’ by Paul Kalanithi
In "When Breath Becomes Air" Paul Kalanithi details his inability to take on the five stages of death: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance, until he decided to reverse them. Surely his medical training was an aid in tackling the diagnosis with a vengeance.
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