Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Personally, I wasn't as into nonfiction…until I read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , by John Berendt. Okay, okay I know the title is a mouthful, but trust me it’s a tasty bite. Midnight in the Garden... gives the first person account of a journalist's visit to the city of Savannah. During his visit, a crime occurred that featured some of the best characters to make it on the page. Gunshots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion, the Mercer House, leaving a redneck gigolo lying dead on the carpet and an aristocrat standing alive behind a desk…with the death-dealing weapon. That’s all it takes to set Savannah afire with speculation and gossip; was it murder or self-defense? As everyone has their bits of information about the two men, and new information surfaces everyday, that question becomes a little more difficult to answer. But with a little voodoo and a little faith, will the answer become clearer? All of the nonfiction I’d read before Midnight in the Garden… was...

Breathers: a zombie's lament by S.G. Browne

breather : n. one among the living with the ability to breathe; one who is alive What if your afterlife happens to be living among the living? Depending on your viewpoint, when that afterlife is becoming a zombie, that may not sound too horrible…you’d think. S.G. Browne’s debut novel, Breathers: a zombie’s lament , gives us one possibility. Join Andy as he tries to cope and navigate thru his newly acquired lifestyle. He used to be alive with a wife and daughter until one sleepy night a bad turn that leads to a 20-foot launch into a Redwood tree trunk ends that life, only to give him a new one he isn’t sure what to make of, along with ruptured vocal cords and a limp. Two days after he’s reanimated, he’s picked up by the SPCA, who “is working to save more of us [zombies] by soliciting zombie foster homes” among their attempts. His parents begrudgingly come to claim him two days later. His new life is filled with “happy” days at home with his parents who, wished he would’ve stayed dead, a...

Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott

Chicago is known for many things: the second busiest airport, the locale of such events as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, as well as the home of many great buildings, companies, politicians and crooks. Let’s not forget something else Chicago is known for: The Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history. In Sin in the Second City , Karen Abbot tells us the story of the Everleigh sisters, Minna and Ada, who opened and operated the Everleigh Club at the start of the 20th century and attempted to elevate the industry through their own practices. Everleigh girls at the brothel, or “butterflies” as the madams like to call them, were ensured to dine on gourmet food, to be examined properly by an honest doctor, and tutored in literature. Never did the sisters go out to find girls to work for them; they didn’t need to when they had a waiting list of girls that wanted to come work for them. They were well fed and well treated unlike many othe...

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