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Book Review: The Fat Man, A Tale of North Pole Noir

The Fat Man a tale of the North Pole Noir is a interesting little tale that twists many of the stories, songs and tall tales we have grown to know about Christmas into its own original spin. Written by Ken Harmon, it features not only Santa himself but enters you into a world of his elves and their surroundings. It also adds a bit of mystery into creativity into what could have been quite a tired tale. It has been officially summarized: "Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three inch 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is angry. He's one of Santa's original elves, inspired by the fat man's vision to bring joy to children on that one special day each year. But somewhere along the way things went sour for Gumdrop. Maybe it was delivering one too many lumps of coal for the Naughty List. Maybe it's the conspiracy against Christmas that he's starting to sense down every chimney. Either way, North Pole disillusionment is nothing new: S...

Grave Surprise, Book Review part 2

Hello, good day and good morrow to you all out there in the land of the unknown. How are you on this day in this hour? Great and colourful I hope. Today is a very draggy kind of day. Its not really dragging per say, it just seems later than it really is. I have some drawings to do for a competition that I plan on entering. I just need to update this first though..... Now on to the important stuff, today I would like to finish my review of 'Grave Surprise'. So just to recap, the book, which was written by Charlaine Harris, is not one that I am soon to forget. It centers around Harper Connelly, who possess a unique gift that allows her to find and detect the cause of death of deceased persons and her step-brother Tolliver, who are in the business of around helping people find their missing loved ones after they suspect that the person is dead (or have been murdered as the case may be). If you read my first partial review of the book I go a little more in dept into the plot. Thi...