Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

What does it take to be a witch? Very little. If a neighbor or an indentured servant doesn’t like you, he/she can plant some symbol of the d...

The following review is another guest review from Ed O'Hare, an up & coming acclaimed reviewer: Dave Grohl has for years served as r...

The following is a guest review from my friend, Ed O'Hare, a voracious reader in his own right, and an accomplished arbiter and commenta...

The story of Pounce, the nanny bot, and his charge, eight-year-old Ezra is endearing as well as violent. C. Robert Cargill writes an apocaly...

Anne Sebba gives the reader a chilling look at the death of Ethel Rosenberg, who along with her husband, Julius, were convicted of giving At...

Oops! Science, science, science, it must be another novel from the self-proclaimed space nerd, Andy Weir. I was bored by the potato farming ...

  On 4/2/2012 I wrote a review of Haruki Murakami’s bestseller, 1Q84 , and stated that this Japanese author writes in a semi-abstract way ai...

  It’s not just another story about a comet hitting earth...well it is in a way, but for all intents and purposes, it’s about how the hoi po...

This stellar novel by Sylvia Plath spawned me to think about how delicate the human brain is. Sylvia connects suicide with a bell jar. I tho...