Review: "Boy, Snow, Bird," by Helen Oyeyemi
Three names of characters comprise the title of this interesting, well- written novel. My measured review found this book to be easily...
Review: "Dept of Speculation," by Jenny Offill
Pick up this book and read it today. That’s all it will take, a couple hours. Her stylized, single on entries, mostly paragraph length,...
Review: "The Martian," by Andy Weir
This year has started off with a bang, or perhaps I should say, quite a lift- off. Recommended by my daughter, this book caught me like a...
Review: "October Dreams – A Celebration of Halloween," Richard Chizmar & Robert Morris
I return to this compilation occasionally, but this year I read the first 350 pages straight through. A collection of Halloween based...
Review: "A House in the Sky," by Amanda Lindhout
First, let me state that this is an interesting story. It brings the reader closer into the details and specifics of being taken for...
Review: "Just Kids," by Patty Smith
This is simply an amazing book, well written, rich, generous and honest. It is everything...everything...that anyone could want in an...
Review: “Ender's Game,” by Orson Scott Card
I had begun this book in an effort to read it before the movie came out. Unfortunately, due to my slow reading habits I never finished it...
Review: “Doctor Sleep,” by Stephen King
Having read every book that Mr. King has written, I needed to read this as well. But once again, Mr. King fails to deliver, much to my...
Review: “Arcadia,” by Lauren Groff
This lovely story, sent to us by Lindsay, has so many beautiful sentences that it caused me to place little bookmarks in places so that I...
Review: “Joyland,” by Stephen King.
More fun than a day at the county fair. A quick- read, murder mystery ghost story, I’m sure that King had a good old time spinning this...