Category: Book Reviews
Posted on November 3, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
Last year I began my own tradition of reading a horror/thriller book around Halloween. Consider it my way of mentally getting into the season. The first book I read was a classic; The Shining by Stephen King. It was an exciting read and I…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: aspergers, book, book review, evil, ghosts, halloween, haunted, haunting, horror, imagination, jack peter keenean, jip, keith donohue, monsters, novel, psychological thriller, scary, spirits, spooky, the boy who drew monsters, thriller
Posted on September 22, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
A few weeks ago, we published an article that listed five books on our wishlist. Last week, we reviewed a book on the list, Lexicon. This week The Motley Experience reviews another book on the list, one that we were very excited to read. The Name…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: a wise man's fear, book, book review, books, chandrian, fantasy, fiction, game of thrones, george rr martin, got, hero, kote, kvothe, legend, myth, novel, patrick rothfuss, saga, series, song of ice and fire, the kingkiller chronicle, the name of the wind
Posted on September 15, 2014
by A.Marousas
1 Comment
In a previous article, we listed five books on The Motley Experience’s “wish list”. One of these books was the highly acclaimed novel by Max Barry, Lexicon. This is a science fiction novel that reads as a thriller. The premise of the story is…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: bareword, book review, books, eliot, emily ruff, fiction, harry wilson, highly acclaimed, lexicon, linguistics, max barry, must read, novel, persuasion, poets, science fiction, suspense, thriller, woolf
Posted on September 1, 2014
by A.Marousas
1 Comment
Normally, on a Monday, The Motley Experience provides readers with a book review. The books reviewed are always read by The ME staff before being written about. This week we will take a different approach and list some novels, old and new, that are…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: abercrombie, authors, book review, books, bookshelf, cantrell, fantasy, fiction, follett, george r r martin, historical fiction, library, max barry, novels, read, reading list, rothfuss, wish list
Posted on August 25, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
“The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: book review, business, chris martenson, crash course, current events, debt, earth, economic growth, economy, environment, financial crisis, oil, overpopulation, policy, politics, resources, scarce resources, unsustainable, usa
Posted on August 18, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
This week’s book review takes a look at Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan. This book is both short, to the point, and very readable. What Kagan does is analyze the different viewpoints of both…
Posted on August 11, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
It is 1944 and the Allies are preparing for the invasion of Europe. In the occupied town of Sainte-Cecile, the French Resistance is preparing to blow up the chateau that now houses the crucial telephone exchange connecting the French telephone system to that of…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: 1944, book, Book Reviews, century trilogy, covert operations, england, felicity clairet, feminist, fiction, france, french resistance, germany, great britain, historical fiction, jackdaws, ken follett, must read, nazis, novel, war, world war 2, ww2
Posted on August 4, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
Our “thirty-is-the-new-twenty” culture tells us the twentysomething years don’t matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: adulthood, book review, books, children, do it yourself, dreams, educational, enlightening, goals, hard work, inspiration, meg jay, personality, provocative, psychology, relationships, the defining decade, thirties, twenties, twentysomethings, young adults
Posted on July 28, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
This week’s Book Review takes a look at Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson, won the 2013 Costa Book Awards (Novel) and was shortlisted for the 2013 Orange Prize for Fiction and It was also selected as one of the 10 Best Books…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: 20th century, berlin, book review, books, deja vu, fiction, germany, heroine, historical fiction, kate atkinson, life after life, nazis, novel, story, ursula todd, world war 2
Posted on July 21, 2014
by A.Marousas
Leave a Comment
The SIGMA Force series is written by James Rollins and is a personal favorite of mine. Rollins uses a mixture of real science, historical facts, and fiction to create an interesting, often times thought provoking, and exciting ride in each one of the books.
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: action adventure, book review, books, educational, entertaining, entertainment, fiction, gray pierce, history, james rollins, mystery, non fiction, novels, painter crowe, science, series, sigma force
Recent Comments