Author Judith Marshall’s first novel, excessively long title and all, won the California Writers Club Jack London Prize. For all you readers, male and female,
Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys’ debut novel is not to be missed. It’s been published as a young adult novel, but it is a
Bookin’ with Sunny may not have a cache of science fiction reviewers to draw on, but with that caveat, let me tell you that Kraken
Paula McLain has written a rather spectacular piece of historical fiction in her rendering of Hadley Richardson’s marriage to American literary legend Ernest Hemingway. The
The Devil’s Company – History, mystery, thrills and chills in 1722 London. I can’t imagine why it’s taken me so long to climb on the
I just finished reading Lord of Misrule and it proves what I’ve known since I was a kid: nothing beats a good horse story. The characters
Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule is a novel about horse racing at a small time track in West Virginia, where worn-out horses, trainers, jockeys, grooms
What could be better than sitting down with a really good book and your favorite cup of coffee or tea? Well, okay, maybe that book and
Do I read mysteries? That’s a question I’m often asked. I do, but not many. I love those “literary thrillers” by Matthew Pearl and just
There are so many reasons to recommend C. J. Box and his Joe Pickett novels it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with
Just read this in today’s Shelf Awareness 3/16/2011 and I think it’s important: Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation barring the FBI from
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. . . but it is from the heart that I thank all those who helped to get this weblog off the ground. The lion share of
Joseph O’Connor has written three screenplays and four plays for the theatre, so it is not a surprise that his seventh novel, Ghost Light finds it
Friendly Fallout 1953 is a curious combination of fiction and fact, a literary effort to bring together, under one cover, the topics of nuclear weapons,
In these budget cutting times, your local libraries are taking a lion-sized share of the cuts. The following piece by Scott Turow was passed on
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