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'A hundred years ago, The Sisters came, a string of asteroid strikes that destroyed civilization and brought on a decades-long winter.' After the initial disaster, a century of storms in England brings disease, infighting, and the decimation of all technology the world once knew. Small enclaves, clans, and even a major port or two has... Continue Reading →
“Here, we’re privileged. There, we’re nobodies.” - A white expat husband tells his black Rwandan wife the stark reality of their life in Burundi as opposed to his native France in the 1990s. But the underlying message is that she needs to turn her back on the lower class Burundians and to 'know her place.'... Continue Reading →
A Quick TBR. Just because. In order, here's a list of the books I'll be reading over the next couple weeks. Small Country by Gaël Faye. This is my current read. This is a newly translated book from France. The story of boy growing up in central Africa in the mid 90s. His mother is a... Continue Reading →
Larry Bond’s Arctic Gambit is a shifting-chessboard of a military thriller. With a lost American submarine, unrest in the Baltics, and suspicions of advanced Russian missile technology, Bond moves the plot forward in each chapter with quick shifts in the point of view from all sides of the conflict. Set in the near future, the... Continue Reading →
These are some of the best thrillers I've read in the last ten years. A fun list to make. I highly recommend them all. Robert Galbraith's (J.K. Rowling) Cormoran Strike series: I have to be upfront about my reading history. I have only read the first Harry Potter book. I thought it was good, but... Continue Reading →
Here's a preview of some of the books and reviews I'll be writing in the coming months. I try to only glance at the blurb to get a feel for what the book is about because I don't want to be overly-skewed by another's interpretation of the work. Here are the covers with a few... Continue Reading →
I thought I'd write a short post about what brought me to become a book blogger. This may serve as an introduction to others in the blogging community as well as an explanation to my friends who have asked me about all those FB posts... I came up with three reasons. Here they are, in... Continue Reading →
Here's my second installment of my all-time recommendations. Several different genres are on this list, maybe one for everyone. Thank you for the support and enjoy! The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History in Four Meals by Michael Pollan: This is the book that started me on Michael Pollan's great advice, and partly inspired me to... Continue Reading →
A few thoughts on the end-of-days premise: whether it’s zombies or disease or a natural disaster, authors create these situations to produce an immediate external conflict. One that can divide or unite, one that tests and may change their characters. Authors' purposes for writing in this type of speculative fiction are as varied as the... Continue Reading →
