Category Archives: Genre: nonfiction

Reviewed for MonsterLibrarian.com Llewellyn, 2001 ISBN: 9780738700502 Available: New and used This is a New Agey manual on the fantasy creatures we know and love. How to find them, identify them, protect yourself against them, run a basic investigation, as well as a hodgepodge of history and cultural takes can all be found in this … Continue reading

Guest review by Gothi Jason Lush, D.D. ISBN: 978-9652294685 I received this book from the LibraryThing Early Reader’s Program. Of all the nonfiction I have been asked to review this thick tome is the first to meet all the criteria for a great reference book. First off, the work is authored by thirty experts in … Continue reading

Reviewed for MonsterLibrarian.com Woodland Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9824939-1-5 Available: New Imagine a college writing class where each day a new, experienced writer shuffles in, lectures the class on a new aspect of storytelling and writing, then walks away without another word, leaving the budding writers to digest and utilize the information as they like. Or … Continue reading

Reviewed for MonsterLibrarian.com Lyons Press, 2009 ISBN: 9781599219097 Available: New A disturbing trend in zombie fiction is the role of the military in the zombie uprising. It seems to play one of two roles, either the perpetration of the disaster, or bungling idiot failure. Rare is the book that shows the military in a vital … Continue reading

Review by Jason Lush This book was received through the LibraryThing Early Reader’s Program. ISBN: 9781932603774 First off, the subject matter narrows the reader pool down to those living with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and the people who care for them. But that is where the problems end. The Mayo Clinic Guide to Living with … Continue reading

ISBN: 1905704607 120 Diseases is a crash course on 120 diseases, conditions and syndromes, from common colds to STIs. It offers everything clinical (pictures, symptom descriptions, prevention tips and stats) in bite-sized digestible pieces that are a perfect starting place or resource for the writer or the casual reader. There are explicit, and sometimes difficult … Continue reading