My first instinct was to blame Ms. Davidson. Previously, Diane Mott Davidson’s series of suspense novels featuring Goldy Schulz– the caterer who is married to a homicide detective– was about my only… Read More
Rita Mae Brown continues to annoy me. I’ve written before of my frustration that she now seems to devote all of her writing efforts to her mystery series and no longer writes any… Read More
OR Book Review: Tick Tock by James Patterson Until very recently, James Patterson was one of the many, Many prolific authors whose numerous books I’ve sold and shelved but never once read.… Read More
The MGM Grand hotel, a Hummer, a 3 carat diamond engagement ring, The Mall of America, a local Walmart, size DDD breast implants. Apart from being Large (and in the case of… Read More
Angela S Choi is a debut novelist whose book Hello Kitty Must Die is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and deeply disturbing. Fiona Yu is a 28 year old Chinese-American, who still lives… Read More
Like most Americans I suspect, I don’t know all that much about the Arab world. While I have read and reviewed a handful of books about Saudi Arabia I fear that I… Read More
While I still don’t really like reading books on my computer screen, I’m finding that the new e-books which PCLS is now featuring have finally drug me into the crowd of regular… Read More
Just in case you happened to notice the three month gap between posts, I thought I would mention that I am returning from an extended blog vacation. You may remember I mentioned plans… Read More
I have to confess that I have never really been a fan of “British cuisine”. Honestly, growing up in New Orleans I only ever remember talk of English cooking as the subject of… Read More
William Shakespeare Greenfield is a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz where he spends far more time focusing on drugs and sex than the thesis on Shakespeare that is long over-due for his… Read More
