Reviews

Let it be known, right up front, that I do not like history.  If it happened yesterday it is too old for me to care about.  That being said, I must admit that I just finished a wonderful historical novel, Captive Queen by Alison Weir.  This is a novel about Eleano

In Veronica Roth’s debut dystopian novel, Divergent, the society is not divided by religion, race or class, but by five factions, each corresponding to a different virtue that they value and foster above all.

When I started reading Crossing the Tracks the first thing I learned was that it takes place in Kansas. I thought that was great since I don’t read very many books that take place in my home state.

Past and future collide in 2010 Hugo award winning novel Blackout, written by 11 time Hugo award winning author Connie Willis.  The first of a two volume novel, Blackout is a story of time travel and history, as much an examination of future research as a historical look back on things th

Jozef Vinich was born in Colorado in 1899 to Slovak immigrants.  Following the tragic death of his mother, Jozef traveled with his father to Pennsylvania and then back to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary.  When war comes Jozef enters the army where his sharpshooter skills soon become evident.  He battles the elements and the enemy in this war to end

The year is 2018 and demons have taken over Atlanta, GA as well as the rest of the world.  Demon Trappers are hard at work in cities all over the world keeping demons from causing any more disruption than necessary to the humans who are struggling to get by in their daily lives since the economic upheaval of the recent past and the incursion of de

The Kitchen Counter Cooking School chronicles a project inspired by a supermarket encounter, which turned into an epiphany: Cooking has become a spectator sport of Cooking Channel watching.

Widely praised as one of the best books of 2012, I’m happy to report that Printz-Award winning author John Green does not disappoint.  In fact, this may be his best novel yet.

Indian Country, a graphic novel, is written and drawn in the hard boiled tradition.  Everything is dark.  Relationships are difficult. Violence is an everyday occurrence. Dashiell Bad Horse has returned to the reservation after being away for years.  He is hired by the local Indian reservation police but he is actually undercover for the FBI. There are competing interests at stake, which Bad Horse must balance.  Bad Horse has history with many of the people.  No one is happy.

Privacy invasion, stock market manipulation, character assassination…The Fear Index  is all so timely!  “Torn from the headlines”, as they say.  The capacity for causing all this mayhem, plus more, is not here just yet, but not too far in the future either.  Machines using a