"He'd personally overseen the transfer of nearly six million dollars to Allstrong Security in the past two weeks and apparentl...

While doing some Christmas shopping, I picked out a little something for myself, which arrived in time for Mailbox Monday . Everyday D...

"On a Wednesday evening in early December, Dismas Hardy, standing at the thin line of dark cherry in the light hardwood floor of his ...

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The Italian Lover is a literary mash-up with a Hollywood spin – the heroine from Robert Hellenga’s debut novel, The Sixteen Pleasures , f...

The December issue of the Internet Review of Books is posted now and is packed full of worthwhile reviews.  In addition to 11 other non-f...

" We deserve the blame for not picking ourselves up and walking away.  We think we are buying security with our slavery -- and then, ...

Since I posted several reviews of Early Reviewer books, I am apparently out of the LibraryThing dog house. At least enough to get a book f...

The first couple of pages of Christina Sunley’s debut novel, The Tricking of Freya , seem a little awkward. But once it becomes clear tha...

"It looked like war." -- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (referring to the 1832 secession thr...

The Fire is a complicated adventure novel involving a centuries-long search for a famous chess set and the solution to its mysteries. P...

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"Solarin gripped his little daughter's mittened hand firmly in his own." -- The Fire by Katherine Neville  Neville wrot...

It was going to be a difficult shot, a huge scene to mount, and she still didn't have written permission to use the piazza, though the...

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Good for the Jews is a spirited, engaging novel set in the high school academic world of Madison, Wisconsin. When the charming – sometim...

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In A Century of November , W. D. Wetherell tells the heartbreaking story of Charles Marden's quest to understand his son's death....

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Time to start my blog advent calendar. I love Christmas.

"'The anti-Semitism of the left. If you're going to see it anywhere, I guess it would be here in Madison.'" -- Go...