Tag Archives: books

Doing something because you love to do it is sometimes not the best reason, but in this case it will have to suffice.

We’ve all heard the stories. We just pan them off as the ravings of conspiracy nuts or crazies. Who really killed JFK, RFK and MLK? What was the role of the government in Waco, Ruby Ridge or even 9/11? Do those things we think we see in the periphery of …

"Tis now common to suspect Impossibilities whenever two Ladies live too much together - that horrible Vice ... call'd Sapphism."

Carl Hiaasen is a weird, sick, hilarious guy and his new novel, Sick Puppy, is aptly titled. The hero of Sick Puppy is Twilly Spree, a rich, weird young man who is so passionate about doing right that he often does, well, wrong. So when he sees rich Florida lobbyist …

... pick up a copy of One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night. You won't be disappointed.

Can we possibly have a less likable journalist to play the role of martyr than Judith Miller of The New York Times?

Does listening to an audiobook count as “reading” a book? Apparently this question is a common one in some book forums and recently The New York Times did a piece on the topic, quoting a few authors as saying they’d rather have their books read then listened to. So what’s …

Shell Game: A Mallory Novel by Carol O’Connell Hooray, Mallory is back! Carol O’Connell has created a wonderful protagonist in Kathleen Mallory. She was adopted as a young girl by a police detective at a time when she was a thief and a liar. Now she’s a cop but too …

Is human nature today the same as it was 50, or 500, or 5,000 or 50,000 years ago?

...read these books once. I must warn you though, there is the danger of them becoming habit-forming.