Friday, January 27, 2017

the OARSMAN

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to review: Okay, get your thinking caps on, because Zubin Mathai decided to write his novel metap...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

I Remember? a short story

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Recently I was remembering my two year Marine Corp tour of duty in Hawaii from November 1964 to November 1966. Not the whole tour, just the...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

the little VOICE

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to review: I’m not really sure why Joss Sheldon wrote this rather depressing novel. Was he trying...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

CANDIDE

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This 1759 novel by Voltaire is either a satire (on what? life? war?) or a comedy, I’m not really sure. The one thing I know is that the ma...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

The Silmarillion

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This is a guest review from Deron O: The Silmarillion is J.R.R Tolkien’s mythopoeic masterwork in five parts that begins with the crea...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

THE SPY

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Paulo Coelho has written a fine epistolary (a novel based on written or typed letters) historical novel about the execution of accused WWI...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

MOTHER NILE, a novel

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The author and his editorial manager sent me a copy of his novel to review: Warren Adler, the author of The War of the Roses (later a h...
Friday, December 30, 2016

The Tannenbaum Tailors and the Secret Snowball

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The author sent my thirteen year old grandson, Kai, an autographed copy of his novel to review: The Tannenbaum Tailors and the Secret Sn...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

THE LAST ENGLISH VILLAGE

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The author sent me a copy of his novel to review: I don’t know what having a fellowship at The British Operational Research Society has...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

THE ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL

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The author sent me an autographed copy of his novel to review: J.B. Michaels, author of The Tannenbaum Tailors series, writes his first...