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 pints 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 […]
Book Review: Bridgerton – An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
Here we are in the third book of the Bridgerton fairy-tale. Yes, I am one of the late-comers to the series, having become sucked in by the Netflix series. It was so […]
Book Review: The Ghost in the Little House by William Holtz – Mothers and Daughters Are Complicated
In my younger days, I developed a deep love of the Little House books. As I grew older, I wondered about what happened beyond what Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in the books […]
Book Review: Hot Six by Janet Evanovich – Stephanie Plum Gets Hot and Heavy
Warning: All subsequent reviews for this series may contain spoilers for earlier novels in the series. There’s really something to be said when I can enjoy a series of books with both […]
