Reviews

If you are a fan of Moning’s Highlander series you won’t want to miss this companion novella in which another modern young woman finds her true love in the Scottish Highlands of the distant past.  Working as a barista to pay the bills while writing romance novels and receiving rejection letter after rejection letter from publishers, Jane Sillee is lo

I was rapt with joy upon discovering that the library had acquired the first U.S. release of the Scala & Kolacny Brothers choir. Trying to explain what it is that Scala & Kolacny Brothers exactly do is like trying to explain to an old Italian woman who has never been to the U.S.

The narrative non-fiction book, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Hampton Sides, tracks the parallel movements of MLK, Jr.

Several years ago I stumbled upon a blog about Louis Armstrong’s career (dippermouthblogspot.com) written by Ricky Riccardi.  Now Riccardi has written What a Wonderful World:  The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years. He is currently the

Contemporary author, Nadine Gordimer, writes with compassion about her native land.

I listened to Trail of the Spellmans, the fifth book in the Spellman Files series.  As with all of the books in the series, Isabel “Izzy” Spellman is our protagonist.  Izzy is a private eye employed by the Spellman Detective

Grant Morrison is something of a divisive figure in the world of comics. Some people love him, while others can't stand him, finding him pretentious and deliberately obtuse. I'm one of the people who think he's brilliant.

When the world was created, it only housed 148 levels.  To keep the world structured and orderly, rules were established to protect the status quo. The first rule is never mention that you would like to go outside.