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High on the Vine: Featuring Yooper Entrepreneurs Tami and Evi Maki By Terri Martin

victor February 1, 2023 February 1, 2023Humor Terri Martin 0

Review by Victor R. Volkman Fans of Terri Martin’s serialized stories in UP Magazine, published monthly by Porcupine Press, will be thrilled to see a new novelization of them in the just-released book High on the Vine.  This is her second humor anthology following Church Lady Chronicles: Devilish Encounters. Although…

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The Dockporter by Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone

victor January 20, 2023 December 21, 2022Humor, Uncategorized 0

Review by Victor R. Volkman The Dockporter by Dave McVeigh and Jim Bolone is a rollicking trip to Mackinac Island, that jewel of the Great Lakes that The Detroit News says sees more than 1 million visitors per year.  The island sees it all, from busloads of U.P. school kids…

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The Constipated Elephant: A Mystery at Pennington House, by A. Jay

victor July 25, 2022 June 7, 2022Fiction / Mystery, Humor A. Jay, Mack Hassler 1

Review by Mack Hassler The Constipated Elephant: A Mystery at Pennington House by A. Jay may be one of the most confused storytelling piece of prose that I have read.  The emphasis on character and on the apparatus of the novel as “fantasy” rather than just history, however, makes it…

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Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

victor April 10, 2021 January 31, 2021Humor Tyler R. Tichelaar 0

Novel Full of Quirky Characters You Come to Care About Review by Tyler R. Tichelaar Leif Enger’s Virgil Wander is an intriguing novel that manages to rope the reader in without a lot of sensational hooks, but instead, real-life characters in real-life situations. Set in a small town in northern…

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Church Lady Chronicles: Devilish Encounters by Terri Martin

victor February 10, 2021 November 6, 2021Humor Terri Martin 0

A Wild Tale of a Religious Do-Gooder Who Never Gets it Quite Right Terri Martin’s Devilish Encounters: Church Lady Chronicles is the first anthology of stories about the adventures of Bea Righteous, one of the busybody “church ladies” of the Budworm United Methodist Church (a.k.a. BUMC). Of course, seeing the…

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