GUEST REVIEWER Jennifer Conner

Jennifer Conner has had her nose in a book for as long as she can remember. In an attempt to redefine her identity after motherhood, she began blogging at The Literate Housewife Review in January 2007. It was a difficult bedtime routine with her daughters that first prompted her to pursue audiobooks. After listening to Simon Vance narrate The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, she discovered that she is a true audiobook geek at heart.  Imported from Michigan, she currently lives in Southwest Virginia with her family. In addition to her blog, you can find Jennifer on Twitter as @lithousewife. So Cold the River Written by Michael Koryta, Narrated by …

FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol.2 No. 5

FOR THE HELL OF IT     VOL 2,  NUMBER 5       03/02/11 Blood, Sweat and Sweat It’s important to remember that we are only in the third month of the new year.  That means that all the New Year’s resolutions you made and likely already blew off can still be revisited and reaffirmed with action and gusto.  And verve.  We mustn’t forget verve. The most oft repeated, oft subscribed resolution of all New Year’s resolutions –  according to a scientific poll that I assume exists somewhere –  is the resolution to hit the gym and get in shape. Let’s face it.  Most of us are at the age where the two nicest …

FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol.2 No.4

FOR THE HELL OF IT. Vol. 2, Number 4. 02/14/11 By Johnny Heller Happy Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day is upon us! Quick, go martyr a Christian! Or you could just go get a nice box of suddenly super expensive chocolates. Let us consider today the interesting cultural phenomenon known as Valentine’s Day. Each year we are asked to surrender ourselves to bizarre rituals of romance that have nothing whatever to do with St. Valentine and everything to do with Hallmark Cards and other clever business enterprises that have covertly banded together in an ingenious plot to put two people together while parting one person from his true love – money. …

The Sherlockian

Written by Graham Moore, Narrated by James Langton -an audio book review- Jo Anna Perrin Sherlock Holmes, in both the enduring reality of the character and the ambivalent appreciation expressed towards him by his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a rift that caused Doyle to actually kill Holmes off at one point, becomes the  stuff of fiction. Literally.  It is the jumping off  point in Graham Moore’s paean to Holmesiana, The Sherlockian. If you are addicted to Sherlock Holmes, and even if you just have a passing interest,  it would be hard not to be charmed by this clever and nimble romp through the annals of the great detective. The …