Did you ever think about where colors come from? I mean, when you're not high, for real think about it? I never gave it much thought before reading Christopher Moore's 'Comedy D'Art' Sacré Bleu, and now I find myself thinking about it all the damn time. Sacré Bleu is so named because it … [Read more]
by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath I knew it was gonna be bad. But I didn’t know it was gonna be this bad. I read the two “Phoenix” books out of publishing order and saved them for the last of the Bantam books because I recalled that they took place one right after the other and I … [Read more]
Warning: This review for the third book in the series contains possible spoilers for The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies. You know, just in case that wasn't obvious from the fact that it's a sequel. Locke Lamora is poisoned, and there's no antidote. He and Jean Tannen must … [Read more]
Wow. I've been sitting here considering just copy-pasting "wow" two hundred and forty-nine times. I'd give this book six stars if I could. I think North Korea holds a fascination for many of us in the west. Certainly it does for me. I was eight when the Berlin Wall fell; old enough to know … [Read more]
Book of Ages was a 2013 National Book Award finalist in the non-fiction category. Historian Jill Lepore pieces together the life of Ben Franklin's sister Jane and in doing so not only reveals the life of a fascinating "ordinary" 18th-century woman who happened to be the beloved little sister of a … [Read more]
Leave me in a bookstore and I will get lost in the romance novel section. Romance novels--to be more precise, historical romances a la old school Amanda Quick--are my default book reads, especially when I want to escape into an adult fairy tale. I say all this to make clear my bias in tackling Nancy … [Read more]
