Gaie Sebold has created such a rich universe of worlds and characters in her Babylon Steel novels, that you can't help finding something to enjoy.For me the two books have been a complete blast and I can't wait for the third... when it arrives.They are FUN! That's not to say the...
On the side I’ll be catching up on great American novels, now up through Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. I also have a bunch of once-read volumes on Latin American history that I want to organize and revisit, but that may have to wait another year. There simply aren’t enough...
(and also like never writing again). On my list for later this summer are Vincent Anioke’sPerfect Little Angels, Danila Botha’sThings That Cause Inappropriate Happiness, and Jen Currin’sDisembark.Maybe by the fall I’ll have graduated to reading novels (just kidding — I’ll be reading...
Think of famous walkers and it is men like Willam Wordsworth and John Keats who likely spring to mind. But that's only half the story: here Andrews fills in the blanks with the history of women walkers of the last 300 years, including 18th-century walker Elizabeth Carter, Anais Nin, Nan...
Modern NovelsTHE OUTLAWS OF SHERWOOD by Robin McKinley. A retelling of the Robin Hood stories for both young adults and grown ups. It has some nice twists on the classic legend. For example Robin Hood is the worst archer of the Merry Men. It also features strongly devolped female ...
A truly addictive read from the pen of Lisa Gardner here, an author I’m a huge fan of especially the Raine/Quincy novels (of which there is a new one coming YAY) Up until this point I had not been QUITE as enamoured of the DD Warren novels but for me Find Her brought this series...
the basis for Netflix’s 2022 blockbuster action movie by the same name starring Ryan Gosling as the former CIA operative turned freelance assassin. Rogan thought the movie was fun but very different than the book which is much darker.The Gray Manis the first book in a series of12 novels....
His crime novels are not for the faint-hearted, with some strong language, violence, and various degrees of sexual content. The first two books also contain a fair smattering of Glasgow slang. He is one of the few self-published authors to be given a panel at Bloody Scotland and has done...
Includes an introduction to the Japanese pilot training system for both officers and enlisted men. Each pilot is followed from the time he joined the navy until war's end. They explain; why they joined the navy, what they thought about the war, about the aircraft they flew, how they felt...
. This book is brilliant in how many things in accomplishes at the same time – another classic from it’s era (1990s). It is of course about comics, but readers who have no interest in comics or graphic novels will learn so much about communication, storytelling, forms of expression, ...