Has the read ahead curse been broken?
I like to read the last page of a book. Sometimes, I do this before I start a book, but most times, I read the last page before the end of the first chapter. Sometimes I read even more than the last...
View ArticleReview – The Anubis Gates
When a book comes highly recommended, I want to love it. Sometimes I like the book just fine but I don’t love it but I wholeheartedly wanted to. This is the case with The Anubis Gates. It’s a good...
View ArticleReview – Palisades Park
Today, something different — me gushing about book outside my normal reading habits. I tend to read heavily in the fantasy and historical fiction genres but every once in awhile I like to step outside...
View ArticleReview – The Black Country
A small English village sustained by coal mining and strange superstitions is slowing sinking into the mines that crisscross under the village. It’s a rather bleak place. When a child and his parents...
View ArticleReview – Lords of the North
This is the third book in the Saxon Stories series following The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman. I’ll try to avoid spoilers but you know the drill. Uhtred helped Alfred win his last war against the...
View ArticleReview – Circle of Shadows: A Westerman/Crowther Mystery
Lately, everything I want to read is a series and a suspense filled historical mystery at that. I want that back story, the intimacy between characters, rich historical details, and a strange murder to...
View ArticleReview – Silent on the Moor
I started this series with book five, I think. It was a few years ago so I’m fuzzy on details but I remember enjoying it immensely even though I knew very little of the characters. Based on that one...
View ArticleThoughts on The Love Artist
The Love Artist by Jane Alison was assigned for an online class I took in the fall of 2013 called Plagues, Witches, and War. The first few weeks of class were spent reading articles and chosen chapters...
View ArticleReview – Bellman & Black
As a child, William Bellman once took aim with his slingshot, and on a lucky shot, took down a rook. While the moment was just a blink in time, faded by the years, the rooks never forgot, even after...
View ArticleReview – A Burnable Book
London, 1385, and a supposedly ancient book of poems prophesying the death of England’s newly crowned king, Richard II, is making the rounds. While the book, and its seditious poems, becomes the talk...
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