Smelling Herself: A Novel by Terris McMahon Grimes

I took an unexpected pleasure ride today with SMELLING HERSELF by Terris McMahan Grimes.  I’ve been meaning to read this book since October when it was released but then promised myself that it would be the first thing I’d do once I finished NaNoWriMo. I’m a long fan of Ms. Grimes’ work.  I’m looking at […]

Never Let Me Go

This is the book I dream of writing one day. Not necessarily the content, although to some extent, I suppose all writers explore the theme ‘what does it mean to be human?’, right? And I’ve never really considered writing Sci-Fi . . . I just don’t think I have the creativity for it.  .  . […]

Stephen King: On Writing and Lisey’s Story

Amazon.com Review Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King’s On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You’re right there with the young author as he’s tormented […]

I, Alex Cross by James Patterson

Publisher’s Summary Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. […]

Dance with the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Publisher’s Summary Zarek’s point of view: “Dark-Hunter: a soulless guardian who stands between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. Yeah, right. The only part of that Code of Honor I got was eternity and solitude. “Insanity: A condition many say I suffer from after being alone for so long. But I don’t suffer […]

Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

Publisher’s Summary Growing up, Will Klein had a hero: his brother Ken. But when Will’s former girlfriend was found raped and murdered in her family’s basement, Ken is considered the prime suspect, and disappears. Ken’s disappearance has lasted for ten years, defying an international manhunt. He has been presumed dead. Now, Will’s mother, on her […]

Summer Lovin’, Summer Readin’

I am putting together my summer reading list and am having a hard time keeping the list at a reasonable number.  There are some awesome recent releases that I am dying to get my hands on.  I’ve also decided to renew one or two classics; you know, the ones that never get old no matter […]

Strong, Silent Types

The strong, silent male prototype has been a fixture in fiction, especially romantic fiction since . . . well, who knows how long, perhaps even when the oral tradition was king. Anyway,  I’m sure people much more knowledgeable than me have tried to analyze their appeal but whatever it is, I do know that it […]

47 by Walter Mosley

Publisher’s Summary In his first book for young adults, best-selling author Walter Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom. 47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious run-away slave, […]