Michael G. Munz

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters – Ch 9

January 19, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

♫ "The Luuuuke Boooat...soon will be making another run..." ♫

♫ “The Luuuuke Boooat…soon will be making another run…” ♫

Percy discovers what very well may be a floating base of operations for Kronos’s monster army, and Tyson proves to be part myna bird. Also: other stuff! It’s part 9 of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…

I Have the Worst Family Reunion Ever

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Book Review: Exodus 2022

January 18, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 2 Comments

While I’ve been blogging my way through The Sea of Monsters in my Michael Reads Percy Jackson blog series, I’ve also been reading a book of a different sort: Kenneth G. Bennet’s science fiction thriller Exodus 2022…

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters – Ch 8

January 15, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 1 Comment

...I loved it. It was much better than Cats. I'm going to read it again, and again...

…I loved it. It was much better than Cats. I’m going to read it again, and again…

So two little things I predicted came true, and one big thing I predicted was more or less wrong. I’m going to say they balance out in this, the eighth part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…

We Board the Princess Andromeda

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters – Ch 7

January 14, 2015 By Michael G. Munz 5 Comments

Chapter 7

Another fine chapter you’ve gotten us into, Riordan!

Percy cleans with fire, Hermes dashes in, and Tantalus becomes an even bigger prat—all this and more on the seventh part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…

I Accept Gifts from a Stranger

Though lacking in much actual action, this chapter shoves us onto the flight deck, fuels up the jet, and clears us for launch. (Aren’t metaphors fun?) Midway through I found myself a little down on things, but then I realized I was resisting some of Riordan’s Greek mythology updates only because they contradicted with my own in Zeus Is Dead. [Read more…]

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Zeus Is Dead named 2014 Book of the Year

January 7, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

I’m happy to announce that author Jonathan Charles Bruce has named Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure his 2014 Book of the Year!

Jonathan Charles Bruce“Zeus is Dead is a hilarious tale that takes all of Greek mythology’s best bits…and plays it up wonderfully.”
—Jonathan Charles Bruce, author and man with absolutely excellent taste in books

Check out the rest of what he says about the book, as well as his other picks for the best of 2014, here on his website!
I am a horn on the wind. Watch how I toot.

I am a horn on the wind. Watch how I toot.

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Cover Reveal – Paradise Rot by Larry Weiner

January 5, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to be part of a cover reveal for the Booktrope edition of author Larry Weiner’s humorous horror-thriller (wow, and I thought Zeus Is Dead was  a mash-up!) novel, Paradise Rot!

Paradise Rot

Cover design by Greg Simanson, who also designed the Zeus Is Dead cover, so you know the guy’s got good taste in authors!

“Weiner writes with a smart, fun, electric style in the vein of Dave Eggers or Chuck Palahniuk.” –Kenneth G. Bennett, author of EXODUS 2022

Click here to learn more on Larry’s website, along with a chance to win fabulous prizes!

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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters – Ch 4

January 1, 2015 By Michael G. Munz Leave a Comment

In which Camp Halfblood's beef supply is secured for the entire summer!

In which Camp Halfblood’s beef supply is secured for the entire summer!

Well that’s a lotta bull! Join me to learn what’s behind that terrible pun (for which I refuse to apologize) in the fourth part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters, also known as…

Tyson Plays with Fire

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