Review: Amazon Alexa, More Than Just Weather & Music
July 16, 2020 1:51 pm Leave your thoughtsAmazon Alexa More Than Just Weather & Music (Score Publishing, August 2020) Bradley Metrock Reviewed By Doris Booth Score Publishing... View Article
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Review: The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
July 7, 2020 1:04 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Big Book of Modern Fantasy, Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, Vintage Books - Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have compiled an extraordinary collection of creepy, scary and intelligent stories by an impressive number of fantasy writers from around the world in their hefty new tome, “The Big Book of Modern Fantasy.”
Review: Ellen Birkett Morris’ Lost Girls Captures Touching Truths
July 1, 2020 4:06 am Leave your thoughtsBook Review, Lost Girls, Ellen Birkett Morris - The sixteen astounding stories in Ellen Birkett Morris’ debut collection, “Lost Girls,” include a cornucopia of tales about love and loss and longing infused with a richness of detail and empathy that prompted the renowned writer, Jenny Offill, to pronounce this “a dazzling collection."
Book Reviews: Hard Rain by Irma Venter
June 9, 2020 8:05 am Leave your thoughtsHard Rain, Irma Venter-Elsa Silke translator, Amazon Crossing - Translated from Afrikaans, Irma Venter’s thriller,“Hard Rain,” takes the reader on a roller coaster ride.
Book Reviews: Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 edited by Sean Wilentz
June 7, 2020 2:23 pm 2 CommentsHofstadter: Uncollected Essays 1956-1965, Sean Wilentz Editor, Library of America - Pulitzer prize-winning historian Richard Hofstadter possessed a genuine feel for trends in American society.
Book Review: Gotham High by Melissa de la Cruz
May 29, 2020 8:52 am Leave your thoughtsGotham High, Melissa de la Cruz/illustrated by Thomas Pitilli, D C Comics - High school is tough enough what with all the jocks, rich kids and party people to deal with, so imagine just how difficult it would be if your name is Bruce Wayne and you’re the heir to the Wayne Enterprises' billions?
Book Review: A Forgotten Murder by Jude Deveraux
May 17, 2020 11:38 am Leave your thoughtsA Forgotten Murder, Jude Deveraux, Mira Books - Oxley Manor, England, seat of the Earls of Oxley, saw its share of tragedies over the centuries. The latest was the death of the last heir in a car accident.
Book Review: Red Dress in Black & White by Elliot Ackerman
May 17, 2020 11:15 am Leave your thoughtsRed Dress in Black & White, Elliot Ackerman, Alfred A. Knopf - Former Marine Elliot Ackerman, who lived a swath of time in Turkey, offers us his new novel, “Red Dress in Black and White,” which focuses on that country’s political upheaval, in particular the 2013 Gezi Park demonstration that left many protestors dead and thousands imprisoned.
Writers & Lovers Looks at Grief and Desire
May 1, 2020 4:06 am Leave your thoughtsWriters & Lovers, Lily King, Grove Atlantic - Writer’s and Lovers is set in 1997 and narrated by Casey Peabody, a 31-year-old writer grieving the death of her mother as she struggles to write, make a living and rebound from a bad romance with a poet.
Book Review: Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch
April 29, 2020 12:30 pm 1 CommentCleo McDougal Regrets Nothing, Allison Winn Scotch, Lake Union - Senator Cleo McDougal is a rising star in the political firmament of Washington DC. The thirty-seven year old single mom from Seattle has her eye on the White House and the drive to take her there.