Jodi Picoult is an author that likes to tackle the hard questions in our society in her novels. From school shootings to individual rights to child molestation, she seems unafraid to tackle […]
Book Review – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: My Life in the Music Business by Miles Copeland III
I turned 18 in the year 1984. I say this because I approached this book as a memoir of my formative years. Music was very important to me at the time. I […]
Book Review: Too Late to Die by Bill Crider
In a small Texas town, everyone knows each other. There are also numerous secrets bubbling beneath the surface. When Jeanne Clinton is found murdered, it threatens to throw the sleepy town into […]
Book Review: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella – Field of Dreams with J.D. Salinger
This book was the basis for the film Field of Dreams. A few things have been changed (J.D. Salinger apparently was not willing to be represented in the film), but if you […]
Book Review: The Drop by Michael Connelly
What happens when DNA from an old case points to a possible killer? You’d think that would be a cut-and-dried case of eventual justice for the victim. However, the problem is that […]
Book Review: Seven Up by Janet Evanovich – Is Seven Stephanie Plum’s Lucky Number?
Warning: All subsequent reviews for this series may contain spoilers for earlier novels in the series. When writing a series of novels based around the same character, and set in the same […]
Book Review: Laura Ingalls Wilder Country – Bringing The “Little House” Books To Life
I know one thing that is always hard for me at times is imaging a place that I haven’t seen. I can imagine wooded areas because I’ve seen forests. I can imagine […]
Book Review: North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters by Sig Hansen and Mark Sundeen
It might surprise some people that I’m a *huge* fan of the reality television series Deadliest Catch. Sure, I know there’s a lot of drama played up for the cameras, and I […]
Book Review: Late, Late at Night by Rick Springfield
I confess to having a huge crush on Rick Springfield for most of my life. Indeed, I was only eight years old when the cartoon Mission Magic came out, but I was […]
Book Review: Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove – If The Japanese Had Invaded Hawaii?
There’s a genre in fiction known as alternate history. It usually gets lumped in with science fiction, although in reality, it’s somewhere between that and history. The premise usually involves taking some […]
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