Category: LB Recommends

This could be a life-changing post…

(Opening Panel from http://theycantalk.com/)

…And since I don’t have all that time to enjoy the change I’d better start right now.

“I don’t understand people who expect their dog to maintain a solid, four-mile-an-hour walking pace and jerk at their leash if when it stops to check out a particularly interesting canine posting. You may not be able to appreciate what your dog is experiencing, but you should have enough empathy to get pleasure from the dog’s pleasure.

“After all, the dog doesn’t understand everything you do, either, but it obviously enjoys your company enough to not care. Return the favor.

“The dog deserves your respect anyway, because it’s way above you in some ways. If I could have my dog’s nose for 24 hours, I don’t know what I’d smell first…I think being a dog must be like being on a 24/7 acid trip. I doubt very much that I could handle being a dog.”

Welcome, Mike Peterson and his DailyCartoonist.Com column, to the Brody World Hall of Appreciation. And big thanks to TheyCanTalk.Com for inspiring him.

LYMI, LB

Novel Mini Review: A GOOD MAN

A GOOD MAN:
An Intoxicating Psychological Crime Thriller
by P.J. McIlvaine
 MINI REVIEW

by Larry Brody

P.J. McIlvaine’s new thriller, A GOOD MAN, is the best novel I’ve read in a very long time, and I’ve read a hell of a lot of novels by many wonderful writers, especially in recent COVID-filled years.

Unlike most thrillers, A GOOD MAN is much more than an escape from our current stress-filled reality. As the cover says, it is indeed “An intoxicating psychological crime thriller,” and, yes, the plot is twistily superb and the suspense brilliantly paced, with personal stakes that keep ratcheting up, up, up, but that’s not all.

The bonus here is that P.J.’s writing is so thoughtful, so mature, that it actually put me into a place where I had no choice but to seriously consider and reappraise my own attitudes about love and family. Most impressively,  it literally made me feel emotions I didn’t even know I had.

In other words, I don’t just recommend this book, I recommend it unreservedly. And if you know me at all you know I’ve never said that publicly before, about anything.

EDITED TO ADD: Hey, I just saw that A Good Man is available on Kindle Unlimited over at Amazon, which means you can read it for free HERE

PJ McIlvaine on the eternal struggle for the right work/life balance

(Love this illo!)

My friend PJ McIlvaine, author of the current best seller, VIOLET YORKE, GILDED GIRL: GHOSTS IN THE CLOSET, and close friend and companion of dragons everywhere (yes, it’s an inside joke – my apologies) recently appeared on the bookechoes.com podcast and talked about, among other things, the age-old problem of how to best balance the writing life/family life relationship.

This particular situation is something I still haven’t mastered, but I’m working at it. And what PJ has to say here definitely helps.

Enjoy and learn, kids!

PJ’s website is HERE

BookEchoes.Com is HERE

 

LYMI, LB