by vjbooks | Nov 21, 2014 | Books to Movies, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Longmire Lives! Fans of Craig Johnson and his character Sheriff Longmire were pretty vocal when A&E announced it would cancel the series after a massive cliffhanger at the end of season 3. Well, weep not – Longmire will live on at the hands...
by vjbooks | Oct 12, 2014 | Alan Jacobson, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Spectrum by Alan Jacobson Book Review by Russell Ilg Alan Jacobson has taken the FBI Profiler Karen Vail series to a whole new level in Spectrum (Open Road, $17.99, 438 pages). Jacobson rewinds the revered profiler back to the beginning, when Karen Vail begins...
by vjbooks | Oct 3, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Ask Craig Johnson – Are Longmire fans too old? Craig Johnson’s latest Longmire book WAIT FOR SIGNS releases this month, and as a long time fan of the series I can hardly wait (no pun intended). The three seasons of LONGMIRE on A&E helped to solidify the fan base....
by vjbooks | Sep 21, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Meet Joseph Heywood Joseph Heywood arrived on the literary scene in 1985 with the largely overlooked Viet Nam thriller, TAXI DANCER, a mass market release with collectible copies bringing as much as $300! Two years later, he released BERKUT. A riveting story based on...
by vjbooks | Sep 20, 2014 | Books to Movies, Collecting, Movies
Read the Latest News about Lawrence Block What’s a AWATT – and what is Liam Neeson doing presenting it at the Zurich Film Festival? AWATT is the film industry’s abbreviated form of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, a film based on Lawrence Block’s...
by vjbooks | Aug 30, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
It’s Berry (Barry) Season! When Virginia first arrived here from Texas her concept of jam was the grape variety (Welch’s preferred). As a native Oregonian I embraced my duty to expose her to berries. Now I am not talking about the obvious blues, rasps and strawberries...
by vjbooks | Aug 22, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
The Dagger of the Assassin The assassin seems to have been edging his way into the suspense genre for some time now, wrapped in a dark mystique and lurking in the pages of political thrillers, epic and urban fantasy, and even young adult titles. Using what some may...
by vjbooks | Aug 22, 2014 | Clive Cussler, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Signed Russell Blake Books Now Available at VJ Books Russell Blake is a prolific writer. He is the USA Today bestselling author of 29 books, including Fatal Exchange, The Geronimo Breach, Zero Sum, King of Swords, Night of the Assassin, Return of the Assassin, Revenge...
by vjbooks | Aug 8, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Sci-Fi – Making our World Seem a Little Less Scary Maybe its Ebola on American soil, a nuclear Iran, illegals flooding our borders, or Isis expanding throughout the Arab world, but my reading has of late has been focused on apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic...
by vjbooks | Aug 8, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
VJ Books Honors Chelsea Cain as August 2014 Author of the Month! VJ Books is located in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, an eclectic city, where sophisticated and alternative styles coexist peacefully – a place that hundreds of authors call home. As you wander around a...
by vjbooks | Aug 3, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Robert B. Parker’s The Hollow Girl by Reed Farrel Coleman When Robert B. Parker died in 2010 we feared that his voice would be silenced. For nearly four decades Parker thrilled readers with one or two bestsellers each year. In 1997 he introduced us to Jesse...
by vjbooks | Aug 1, 2014 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Chelsea Cain & Chuck Palahniuk Coming to Aladdin Theater August 22, 2014 You won’t want to miss authors Chelsea Cain (“One Kick”) and Chuck Palahniuk (“Beautiful You”) with Bedtime Stories PDX at the Aladdin theater, Portland, Oregon....
