Tonight’s review is of the Audible book, although you may also obtain it as a Kindle, a print book or a CD on Amazon. The author is Richard Roper, who is a Brit. This warrants mention, as the situation portrayed in the book seems to be a particularly – and even peculiarly – British thing. […]
In April, I reviewed Rob Swigart’s first Lisa Emmer novel, The Delphi Agenda, so tonight comes a review of the second volume, Tablet of Destinies. Tablet is one heck of a good read. It picks up where Delphi left off, but it takes off like a rocket. It helps a lot to have read the […]
by Nicole Walker and David Carlin, Published by Rose Metal Press 2019 Imagine this: two people, living on entirely different continents, meet and become colleagues and friends. They travel to each others’ home countries, meet families, share cookouts and wines. And words and ideas. They realize their dialogues, which of course emerged in Western culture […]
Note: This review is of the Audible version of this novel. Wishing to step just a bit outside my normal Audible book-listening – which, to some extent, mirrors my interest in reading what I call “airplane novels” or “brain candy” mysteries and thrillers by well-known authors, I downloaded The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan, an Irish […]
Fans, I must confess I have no review ready for you tonight. I find myself reading (and listening) to four – count ’em, four – works, but I’ve not finished any of them. Which means next week will turn into a cornucopia of reviews which I’ll spill out to you over the next few weeks. […]
I wanted to like this novel more than I did. I wanted to like it because I believed it might take a new spin on a theme in which I have a lot of literary interest. I wanted to like it equally as much because it was written by a woman whom I believed would […]
Phrenologisticals, Retrograffiticists, Cinemastes, lend me your eyes! I want to tell you of a very strange and different book. Yes, ‘tis true, and its title is Giraffes on Horseback Salad. First, the boring part. I was in my car, foolishly without my iPod with which I listen only to interesting podcasts and books, so in […]