NANCY ATHERTON
An advantage of the Cosy Mystery genre is the fact it requires no grisly murders or deep drama. Aunt Dimity and the Summer King provides an excellent example that keeps…
Mary Jo Putney
Romance writer Mary Jo Putney has woven in The Rake a historical-fiction tale of personal redemption as well as intrigue among the aristocrats of Britain. This is a second edition…
Biographies and Autobiographies
Frankly, I rarely read biographies and autobiographies, especially those of politicians and industrialists. But I picked up Peter Ustinov's Dear Me simply because here was one man whose life might…
LASTING IDEAS
Isaac Asimov wrote intriguing stories, but perhaps what will last even beyond those tales is his notion of The Laws of Robotics. His original three laws are quoted here, from…
M. A. FOSTER
The Warriors of Dawn is a pocket novel I picked from a free-book tree I occasionally donate to. An oldie (1975) but an extraordinarily imaginative tale in the science fiction…
Change of Habits
To now, my blog has contained weekly posts. But life is changing and I need more time for other projects; so, I'll be posting less often from here on out,…
David R. Hawkins
Strictly non-fiction, David R. Hawkins's works teach us who we really are, where we come from, and what brought us to our current condition, whatever that may be. Power Vs.…
Peter Robinson
If you enjoy England and crime stories, you'll want to read Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks Mysteries. Though an older book, Wednesday's Child has a timely topic: child abduction and abuse.…
Lewis Carroll
Funny enough, I never read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass as a child. But I happened upon a Bantam Classic book that comprised both, recently, and sat…
STEVE BERRY
The Emperor's Tomb takes the reader from Denmark to Belgium to Vietnam to China, following a former American agent and his friend, a wealthy woman with a passion for archaeology…
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