Book Reviews

Is 'Our Short History A Novel', Lauren Grodstein's sixth book, one of the best novels of 2017?

The ocean holds mystery, wonder, and amazement. In 'Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean' Jonathan White wants to show you just a taste of that.

Son’s biography of World War II father, 'A Last Chapter of the Greatest Generation' by Judson I Stone, serves as microcosm of the greatest generation

In Shigeru Mizuki's 'Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon' a boy yokai hunts evil yokai in modern Japan.

'Cooking to Die For: Black and White Edition' by Eric Moebius Morlin is a novel about the undead and a cookbook for survivors.

In 'The Blues: Why It Still Hurts So Good' Marie B. Trout combines her own experience and the words of fans, musicians, and industry professionals to look at the blues in a most professional, unusual and interesting way.

If you are in the mood to read some excellent writing and discover some excellent people in less than excellent circumstances, please consider adding 'Gotta Find A Home' by Dennis Cardiff to your life and bookshelf.

Is 'The Leavers', the forthcoming debut novel from Lisa Ko, worth waiting for?

This is a remarkable memoir, often painful but never bitter, full of great highs and deep lows

'Solo Sins' by Richard Vine is a new Hard Case Crime novel which takes us into the neo-decadent SoHo art world.