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A dual timeline... "Now" and "Then." A murder confession. One word that controls the plot: Murky! It is summer vacation and the small towns on Long Island are opening up to all the tourists of the season. But the year-long residents of Herron Mills are still reeling from the disappearance of local college student, Zoe... Continue Reading →
I was a big fan of the TV show Webster. Emmanuel Lewis plays a young African-American boy who is adopted by an ex-NFL lineman and his socialite wife. Webster is ridiculously cute and funny, and the script-writers take advantage of his looks and innocence. I remember getting to know him in the first season and... Continue Reading →
A book that has me running straight to my high school science-teacher colleagues. The Mars Challenge is the perfect graphic novel to integrate into any high school curriculum or to enrich the life of a young person interested in STEM. But I in no way want to narrow the audience for this book. I loved... Continue Reading →
The more I review books, the more I'm intrigued by the genre of the novella. It's no easy task to fit in all the elements needed to move a story forward. I hesitate to compare it to a the genre of the sonnet, but when an author is restricted to under 200 pages it can... Continue Reading →
113... Is that a lucky number??? Because that's the number of chapters in Milazzo's quickly plotted superhero thrill-ride, The Faith Machine. Short and action-packed, they hit you hard and fast... and give the book a hair-trigger tone. Just read a couple lines from the last paragraphs of some of the early chapters: "Oh yes. People... Continue Reading →
