Book Review: Sound Man, Glyn Johns Because I’ve started writing a book about a family that includes a rock and roll sound man, I found this autobiography of an authentic rock and roll sound man, Sound Man, by Glyn Johns, sound man to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and many other big names and famous…
Details“… In Death” Series, J.D. Robb Currently, I’m reading the latest book in the “In Death” series by J.D. Robb, Brotherhood in Death. There are at least 50 books in the series. I’ve read them all in order and only disliked two of them. Nora Roberts (J.D. Robb) is a prolific writer, writing this series…
DetailsMovie Review: Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch, dir.) Ninotchka, available on Amazon.com I’m a huge fan of classic movies, and every so often, I get the urge to share. In the days when the Communist government had its tightest stranglehold in Russia, three Russian emissaries had been sent to Paris, and apparently, they were spending money…
DetailsI’m Not Mean A few posts before this one, I gave you a list of lesser known indie authors that I highly recommend. I considered giving you all a comparable list of the lesser known indie authors to run from. I’d be doing you a favor. But I can’t bring myself to do it. I’m…
DetailsBook Review: Notes from a Very Small Island, Anthony Stancomb Map of Vis, a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea Author Anthony Stancomb provided me with a copy of his book, Notes from a Very Small Island, in exchange for a review. I doubt if I would have learned about this book on my…
DetailsMovie Review: Sullivan’s Travels This is something of an unusual movie review. Sullivan’s Travels is a Preston Sturges movie from 1941, starring the absolutely gorgeous Joel McCrea as Sullivan and his sometime traveling companion, played by Veronica Lake. It’s an old black-and-white, and it’s been all but forgotten except by die-hard movie buffs. In 1941,…
DetailsBook Review: Write Great Dialogue, Irving Weinman This is not a road trip book, but many of the Road Trip Writer posse are writers. As a writer myself, a criticism that I frequently receive is that I need to use more dialogue. This book covers the two sides of dialogue: 1) using it almost exclusively,…
DetailsBook Review: The Way Down, Ardin Lalui A while back, i read Ardin Lalui’s novella, There Is No Otherwise, which was atmospheric, pognant, and evocative. I had high hopes for this novella, The Way Down. It is the story of a man who is a loser on many levels, in a hapless marriage and a…
DetailsBook Review: Campervan Kama Sutra, John Perrier John Perrier and his family, wife and three children, went on a 3-month road trip around Australia. John planned the trip with a blind trust that everything would be fine. It wasn’t. The trip ended up costing a king’s ransom, if the king was from a small, third-world…
DetailsBook Review: Route 66 to the Milky Way, Janet Rendall I’ve read buckets of sci-fi over the years, and I can say in all honesty that this is the most intelligent sci-fi book I’ve ever read, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. AND a first novel, TOO?? Dang! The action takes place in 1949,…
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