The Ukazoo Books Blog
Posted in Store Events on Jan 30th, 2010
During the month of February, if you will donate a new pair of kids’ shoes to be sent to Romania, Ukazoo Books will give you a free used book. Ukazoo Books will be collecting shoes for Remember the Children as they work on their 10,000 Shoes for Romania drive. You can watch updates [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jan 29th, 2010
I didn’t know what to expect from Joe Hill in Horns as this was first time to read him. I also don’t read a lot of horror, but I am not sure this is horror; This is more like a dark fantasy.
Ig woke up a mess, hungover and not able to remember a lot about [...]
Posted in Literary History on Jan 28th, 2010
In my life time I do not think I will see an author with so few written works have so much influence. The 1951 novel The Catcher and the Rye became a mainstay of the 60’s counter culture, and later required reading in colleges and high schools across the nation. If a school was [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jan 22nd, 2010
Christopher Buckley tickled me with Thank You for Smoking and had me rolling in the floor with Little Green Men; Buckley has the keen wit concerning Washington and its inner working. In his newest book is something else all together. Losing Mum and Pup is about the 12 months in his life when he lost [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jan 19th, 2010
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey taught us to make deposts in emotional bank accounts. Now, Gary Chapman will teach us how to make sure we make those deposit in ways that the other person most feels loved.
The Five Love Languages is a simple book with a simple premise: it is [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jan 14th, 2010
Cemetery Dance is the new Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child novel with FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast. If you read Preston/Child novels, you know Pendergast. If you don’t read Preston/Child novels, don’t start here, start at the beginning with Relic and Reliquary in which Pendergast is a supporting character. Then dig into Cabinets of Curiosities [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2010
The third books of the Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo trilogy titled the The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest is now in store, so we now have all three books available. These will not last long. I need to get to the second one myself, but I have Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child’s Cemetery [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2010
I read Jeanette Walls’ Half Broke Horses because I loved The Glass Castle so much.
I want to compare the two books, but I can’t.
The Glass Castle is a personal story, sometimes so intimate I was amazed she shared it with us. I can only imagine that reading Glass Castle is a little like reading Wall’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2010
To all of you who shopped here, told your friends about us, sold us books, held events at Ukazoo and work here, I send you a heart felt thanks. Running an independent bookstore these days is a formidable task at best. But we have great hope in the future and see a wonderful 2010 because [...]