Reviews

When John Perry turns 75, he has a choice to make.  Spend his few remaining years without his wife, who recently passed away, or join the army.  The same army that somehow recruits 75 year olds and turns them into young, fit, professional soldiers.  The choice isn’t very difficult for Perry, who has little to live for and finds the prospect of renewed youth appealing.  He quickly learns that the army he’s joining turns its elderly recruits into much more than simply younger versions of themselves.

Schmitt’s Counterstrike is as lucid, clear and comprehensive an explanation of the country’s foreign policy direction as we are ever likely to have in non-government speak.  The book is not an apology, defense or condemnation.  It begins with a fact – terrorism is a l

Isaac Marion’s debut novel, Warm Bodies is a love story with a twist.  One half of the couple is a zombie and the other is a “warm body”.  A zombie love story was one reason the book presents a fresh perspective on this genre.

Maggie O’Dell, FBI profiler is off to Pensacola Beach where a fishing cooler has been found floating in the Gulf of Mexico filled with body parts.  In Maggie’s job, this may not be an exceptional find except for the fact that the body parts belong to more than one person.  Maggie is able to determine that the torso found in the cooler belongs to a man who mysteriously vanis

Oh, what fun!!!  Allende has invented a beginning for the Zorro stories.  I remember the TV series and I was totally smitten with the swashbuckling, mysterious avenger.  Okay, I was just a kid, but the TV Zorro was a much more convincing character than any other swashbucklers I’d seen—Errol Fly

Crossed is the much anticipated second book in the young adult dystopian Matched trilogy. Crossed picks up where Matched left off.

“I came of age in the 1980’s, before diversity and multicultural awareness trickled into western Michigan.  Before ethnic was cool.  Before Thai restaurants became staples in every town.”

A plane full of teen beauty contestants crash lands on a tropical island. I was expecting either drama or fluff. What I found was satire aimed at the “ideal” female, reality tv and their sponsors, and beauty contests, with a nod toward foreign relations.

A Fine Balance equals Slumdog Millionaire minus the joyful singing and dancing at the end.

 Dina Dalal, a strong-willed widow, defies her bother by living in her dead husband’s flat and refusing to get married.