Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

Is Matt Bell honest with himself? A literature professor proposed this big question in the movie, The Whale . Is it a big question that ridd...

  Old blue eyes life told in a refreshing way by his manager, producer, drinking buddy (Jack Daniels and water), and best friend. This is no...

S. A. Barnes’ space novel, Dead Silence , somehow never lives up to the blurb on the inside jacket…” picks up a strange distress signal,” a...

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award with this exciting science fiction classic space opera. All the ac...

  It took me over a month to read this novel or should I say study this novel. Charles Dickens is either the greatest writer of all time or ...

  Do you remember the line in Don McLean’s 1971 song American Pie ...the day the music died? Well, when Ernest Hemingway published his first...

  In 1938 Kathrine Kressmann Taylor wrote a classic novel (really a 79-page short story), Address Unknown , that unfortunately still resona...

  There are storytellers and tale-tellers and then there is Amor Towles, a Cormac McCarthy disciple if ever I saw one. Having read his A Ge...

This is a guest post by Deron O: Imagine looking at your bookshelves and suddenly seeing them burst through the walls and stretch off into i...