Category Archive: Fiction

Book Review: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Shhh.   I’ll tell you a secret.   I had actually read a book about surviving foreclosure that I had planned to review today.    Being able to add to my existing section… Read More

Book Review: Paintings From The Cave by Gary Paulsen

I’ve been reading YA lately and was absolutely thrilled with this book I picked up at the library.  Paintings From The Cave is a collection of three novellas by Gary Paulsen.   Each… Read More

Book Review: Hiss Of Death by Rita Mae Brown

I fear that I really have given up on Rita Mae Brown ever writing any more of her wonderful non-genre novels.   But I will say that Brown’s latest Mrs. Murphy mystery continues… Read More

30 Day Book Challenge: Day 4– A Book That Makes You Cry

This post is part of Jake Kern’s 30 Day Book Challenge. Today’s challenge is “a book that makes you cry”.    While honestly,  it is not that uncommon for me to get emotionally wrapped… Read More

Book Review: Iglu by Jacob Sackin

Most serious observers agree that we have already begun to see the effects of climate change and global warming.   Author Jacob Sackin projects a hundred or more years in the future and… Read More

30 Day Book Challenge: Day 3–Book that makes you laugh out loud

ROFLMAOPIMPWTIME.  It’s the most expansive acronym in my tool box to indicate that one is Really laughing his ass off because something is Really funny. I have only actually used this acronym in… Read More

30 Day Book Challenge: Day 1–Favorite Book

This post is part of Jake Kern’s 30 Day Book Challenge. After a lifetime of reading thousands of books,   I have to say that naming just one as my favorite is a true… Read More

Book Review: Innocents and Demons by Holly Jahangiri

In my experience,  writing things short can be a real challenge.   It is,  frankly,  a lot more difficult to sum something up in 500 succinct words rather than ramble on for 5000… Read More

Book Review: The Summoner by Layton Green

The Summoner was not an easy novel to read.   Having previously read and reviewed both fiction and non-fiction about Africa,  I was intrigued when indie author Layton Green offered a review copy… Read More

Book Review: Raven by Suzy Turner

I have to confess right up front that I have never been a fan of Stephanie Myers’ Twilight books.    I remember that someone donated them to the library and I was actually… Read More

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