I’m not mad for sci-fi, but I always am for a good story, well told. Cixin Liu is a masterful storyteller, and The Three-Body Problem was for me a totally enthralling story, from the first page to the last. Although first published in 2006, The Three-Body Problem was not translated and published in English until […]
El Paso, Texas, experienced one of the most horrific hate crime slaughters in our nation’s history. Twenty-two people were killed and another twenty or more, primarily Hispanics, were gunned down by Patrick Crusius, 21 years old. Wikipedia states, “It is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in 2019, the seventh deadliest since 1949, and the third […]
No book review this week. Instead, please click here to see my new post. https://jackboston.com/days-of-anarchy-days-of-entropy/
In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s a lot of anarchy going around these days. Don’t take my word for it: The Wall Street Journal reports, “Four months on, antigovernment demonstrations have swept more than a dozen countries. From Chile and Bolivia to Lebanon and Spain, millions have taken to the streets—sometimes peacefully, often not.” Hong Kong unrest is clearly at […]
Kate Atkinson, how is it your novels have gone missing from my bookshelves for so long? While staying at a friend’s maison in France, I happened upon your novel, One Good Turn, and was captivated from the first pages. You have a wit, a writing elan, that makes reading this book as enjoyable as sitting […]
I can hear Ian Rankin’s wise Detective Inspector John Rebus saying, “Next to a dram of Scotland’s finest single malt whisky, a deadline is a police officer’s best friend.” For, in Exit Music, a nasty murder has occurred on his watch and the story is Rebus’s attempting to solve this final case before he is […]
I’ve been traveling; I’m in France now, working on my new novel in a lovely old stone maison beside a broad, flowing river. It’s in the countryside, so I’ve plenty of opportunities for bicycling. Ah, contentment. Which makes for good times reading mysteries. I was at Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, preparing to take the train to […]