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One… Two… Three Little Things!
One thing you can always count on when you read something by Stuart R. West is a good laugh. He has such a firm grasp on the awkwardness and life-or-death embarrassments of being a teenager in high school. I know what I’m talking about. As a teacher I have been laughing at teenage troubles for 31 years now. Tex, Olivia, Elspeth, and the gang are so realistic that I could name the kids in real life they correspond to… well, except maybe for the witch thing… and the ghost thing… and the opening the gateway to Hell thing… Oy! Two things you can always count on when you read something by Stuart is a good laugh and some utterly creepy and scary supernatural hoodoo. Yes, ghosts in the boys’ restroom… undead possession of teenage female souls… sleep spells that can save your life and electrical spells that can blow out the lights in the whole city… there’s a real creep-a-thon going on here. And there’s a little thing about an unsolved murder… Oy! Oy! Oy! Okay, Three things you can always count on when you read something by Stuart…! Yeah, there’s the whodunit factor too. I used to be pretty clever at reading Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie… I knew the solution to the mystery nine times out of… well, a thousand. But Stuart always fools me. I didn’t get this one, and I’m betting you won’t either. So… now, wait a minute! Is it four things? Five? I’m going math-challenged here! Anyway, if you know anything about good books, you will like this book, second installment in the trilogy, at least as much as I did.
This is a review of Stuart R. West’s book Tex, and the Gangs of Suburbia, available at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Tex%2C+and+the+Gangs+of+Suburbia).
You should definitely give it a look.
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My Review of Phil Nork’s Misguided Sensitivity
A yellow rose for Lisa whom he met at the bowling alley and grew up with. Red and white roses for Mary, the first girl he thought he might be falling in love with. A yellow rose for Joyce who was a lover of women but relied heavily on Phil. And of course a red rose for Star, the one who… Well, to be honest, you need to let him be the one to tell you this ballad of beauty, women you could talk to and be friends with, and the meaning behind a gift of roses. In his book Misguided Sensitivity, Phil Nork takes you through a variety of very touching, sensitive, and warmly portrayed women that helped to shape his life as a man. From his divorced mother and nurturing grandmother, to the first date, and the first love, he takes us on a journey of growth, development as a person, and deepening of understanding across the broad and varied landscape of real-life relationships.
The book is very frank and open, giving us insight into the mind of a sensitive man who cares more about the woman than he does himself. He shares with us the life lessons he learned along the way, listing them for us in a slowly built set of rules for living. You need to read it for yourself.
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