Month: May 2017

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This Just In… Dining and Driving with Cats:
Alice Unplugged  by Pat Patterson

May 29, 2017 admin 0

Dining and Driving with Cats: Alice Unplugged is a heartwarming and hilarious true adventure of a couple who share a love most of us only imagine. Here is the remarkable story of how a girl who loved cats captured the heart of a young man who came in from the rain.  A story of a shared love for travel and history, for food and for their sweet and wily cats Munchie and Tuffy. No cats […]

Fiction: The Moment of Truth  by Damian McNicholl

May 26, 2017 admin 0

Because so many of the truths in our lives are hidden, denied or twisted in disguise, it’s nice to have the occasion to state a truth that is unanimously agreed upon. If you dislike the central concept of a book, it is darn difficult to like the book. Don’t waste your time or risk eyestrain reading The Martian Chronicles or Stranger in a Strange Land if you are firmly convinced that there is no possibility […]

Game of Thrones : Here Comes Season 7

May 26, 2017 admin 1

We’ve known for a long time that winter was coming, but the season 7 teaser trailer of Game of Thrones reveals there may be something even worse in the wings. The impossibly popular HBO series is based on the bestselling books by George R.R. Martin, seen here in a January Magazine interview back in 2001. Deadline Hollywood explains that the “new season will comprise seven episodes, part of a plan to wind up the series […]

Cookbooks: Shake Shack Recipes and Stories
by Randy Garutti, Mark Rosati and Dorothy Kalins

May 17, 2017 admin 0

Is it a comment on Shake Shack (the burger phenomenon) or Clarkson Potter (the publisher) that Shake Shack Recipes and Stories looks and feels so good despite a dodgy pedigree? That is to say that those who love Shake Shack love it completely, but let’s keep it real: it’s a burger place no matter how you apply the pickles. And yet this is a proper cookbook. With the elegance and completeness we have come to […]

Review: Wake Up and Live: The Life of Bob Marley
by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego

May 16, 2017 admin 0

Graphic novels, or in this case graphic biographies, are a new world to me. I’ve always looked at the arts rather like a primary school gym teacher: words over here, pictures over there, no talking in lines! PWEET! But then again, as we all know or should know, being a true lover of the arts means that we should be prepared to roll with it, accept changes or combinations, embrace the new before we’re dragged […]

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Julia Roberts to Produce The Bookseller

May 15, 2017 admin 0

Since it’s a book set in a bookstore about to be adapted for the big screen, it felt a little too on-target not to mention. From Deadline Holywood: Crystal City Entertainment has optioned The Bookseller, Cynthia Swanson’s debut novel which quickly became a New York Times bestseller and has garnered the interest of Julia Roberts. The book, published by HarperCollins, is about an unmarried woman in the 1960s named Kitty Miller who runs a bookstore […]

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Newest Terry McMillan Novel Will Be Film

May 12, 2017 admin 0

The most recent novel by internationally bestselling author Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back) has been acquired for adaptation by The Jackal Group. From Deadline Hollywood: Gail Berman and Joe Earley will produce the project through their Jackal Group banner. This book will mark the fifth of the author’s to be adapted for a movie and the third to be put on the big screen. I Almost Forgot About You […]

Non-Fiction: Three Digs into the CIA’s Dark Side

May 8, 2017 J. Kingston Pierce 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. The youngest child of crime novelist Robert Terrall, aka Robert Kyle [1914-2009], Ben Terrall has contributed two previous reviews to January Magazine: one of John Goins’ The Coptic Cross, and the other of Sin Soracco’s Come to Me.) […]

Children’s Books: You Can Read  by Helaine Becker

May 6, 2017 admin 0

There is little room for debate: the celebration and appreciation of literature must begin early to hold the most meaning and make the largest impact. You Can Read (Orca Books), written by Helaine Becker and illustrated by Mark Hoffmann, is an on-the-nose introduction to the joys of books and reading, a joyous and lighthearted romp illustrating the transformative power of the reading experience. That’s actually an awful lot of syllables to describe a book with […]

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Read the Book First

May 5, 2017 admin 0

BuzzFeed’s Arielle Calderon rounds up the best of the book adaptations currently being readied for the big screen in “19 Books To Read Before They Hit Theaters In 2017.” In production now, film versions of Dave Eggers’ The Circle, The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier and about 16 others. See the full list, and who will appear in the leading roles, here.