Sunday, October 06, 2013
Penguin Horror (No, not That Kind of Penguin)
Penguin Horror - Penguin Classics - Because what you read matters. - Penguin Group (USA): Award-winning filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley. These six stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Pimpage: An Occasional Feature in Which I call Attention to Books of Interest
Amazon.com: Never Come Back eBook: David Bell: Kindle Store: Elizabeth Hampton is consumed by grief when her mother dies unexpectedly. Leslie Hampton cared for Elizabeth’s troubled brother Ronnie’s special needs, assuming Elizabeth would take him in when the time came. But Leslie’s sudden death propels Elizabeth into a world of danger and double lives that undoes everything she thought she knew....
When police discover that Leslie was strangled, they immediately suspect that one of Ronnie’s outbursts took a tragic turn. Elizabeth can’t believe that her brother is capable of murder, but who else could have had a motive to kill their quiet, retired mother?
More questions arise when a stranger is named in Leslie’s will: a woman also named Elizabeth. As the family’s secrets unravel, a man from Leslie’s past who claims to have all the answers shows up, but those answers might put Elizabeth and those she loves the most in mortal danger.
Pimpage: An Occasional Feature in Which I call Attention to Books of Interest
Amazon.com: Fight Card: Front Page Palooka eBook: Jack Tunney, Anthony Venutolo, Paul Bishop: Kindle Store: Newark, New Jersey, 1954 Years of fight halls and newsrooms have East Coast sportswriter Nick Moretti looking for a change. When a sloppy hustle goes bad, and Nick takes a bullet in the shoulder, it’s time to go west. Hired by Pinnacle Pictures to write a boxing movie about troubled heavyweight champ Jericho ‘Rattlesnake’ McNeal, Nick joins forces with sexy public relations gal, Dillian Dawson, for a cross-country tour to give an everyman boxer an unlikely shot at the world title – what could go wrong?
From the crackling neon of Hollywood and Sin City, through the steamy Delta, and on to Chi-Town, the glitzy dream becomes a noir nightmare, and newshound Nick Moretti is about to commit a reporter’s greatest sin – becoming a Front Page Palooka ...
Study: Readers of literary fiction can read emotions, too
The Raw Story: People who read literary fiction are better than readers of popular fiction or nonfiction at figuring out the emotions of others, according to a US study out Thursday.
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