Many evenings, as I leave my office building, the guy behind the desk is reading. Just before the holiday break, I finally asked him what he’s reading. (Old occupational habit that I can’t break, sorry.) He was reading some book about the bad boys of cinema, old celebrities who, when they were young used to …
Continue reading 365 Books: Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Having given you a book yesterday in which bigfoot was incidental, I now present you a book where bigfoot is central. Bigfoot. Legendary lovers separated by time and reborn to be reunited. A woman who looks like a tall Snow White (I always pictured Geena Davis) and wants nothing more than to get a Lois …
Continue reading 365 Books: Naked Came the Sasquatch by John Boston
Well, finally, you are thinking: an author I have actually heard of. I read Patricia Cornwell and Sue Grafton when they were originally writing. But then I got tired of them. And, when my apartment flooded back in the early 90s, and I lost a good portion of my book collection, they were amongst those …
Continue reading 365 Books: Unnatural Death by Patricia Cornwell
I sometimes wonder what makes one book successful and makes another book not successful. The Sword of Winter is a terrific book - Marta Randall does a great job world-building. Although it may not have memorable phrases like Thou Shalt Not Pass or imagery that sticks with you, it's well-written, compelling and page-turning, and far …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Sword of Winter by Marta Randall
If I wanted to tell you how to get to the place I lived in high school, I might tell you that, once you got off the freeway by the Chevron station, you needed to proceed through the first stoplight, then remain on that road and stay to the center as it expanded to four …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
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