Brett Busang

Painful! This poorly written collection of memoir style short stories evokes a late 1950s to early 1960s Memphis setting. The author overuses the "be" verb in various forms as well as passive tense, making the reading dull. I visited the city of Memphis frequently in the days not long after these stories occur and hoped the collection would evoke the familiarity of the setting, but the simplistic writing, more suitable to a middle schooler's essay, made it impossible to achieve. I received an electronic copy of the book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program in exchange for an honest review.… (más)

The life of an antique dealer doesn’t seem so bad does it?

No, not really…unless you could have been a star playing in one of the most famous rock and roll bands of all time.

Oh, when you put it that way….

Vijay Asunder will never understand how he could have been dissed by his friends from the Keysters.

It was exactly 11:47 when his band mates shattered him with the bad news.

It’s now 50 years later and Vijay still can’t forget and there is only one way he can think of to put things right.

In what appears to be this author’s first book, we get an in-depth look at a what-if scenario. What if you had ALMOST been the drummer in The Beatles….er…I mean The Keysters?

I want to thank the publisher (Open Books) for providing me with the ARC through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program for an honest review.… (más)