I'm stuck at home bored, like almost everyone else, so I thought I'd indulge in my favorite pastime and put together some reading lists! I see a lot of lists like this one on Electric Literature and Book Riot -- some of them really good, some of them just frankly a hodgepodge of books the … Continue reading Disaster Reading for Disastrous Times
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This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2019. The Institute by Stephen King (2019) Solid King entertainment. True to form, once I was hooked I couldn't put it down. King gives his characters heart in a way that so … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2019 Novels
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (2016) I highly enjoyed and appreciated this gripping book on three levels. First, it presents a fascinating what-if scenario. In this alternate America, instead of having a civil war, the states came to a compromise … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. World of Trouble: The Last Policeman Book III by Ben H. Winters (2013) In the final installment of The Last Policeman trilogy, former detective Hank Palace travels to Ohio searching for his sister in the last days before an asteroid will … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II by Ben H. Winters (2013) In this follow-up to The Last Policeman, there are only seventy-seven days remaining until an asteroid collides with the Earth; Hank Palace has been let go from the Concord … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters (2012) In only a few months, an asteroid will crash into the Earth — an extinction-level event — but police detective Hank Palace is determined to solve his first murder case. At heart, The … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2011. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (2011) The notorious hired killers, the Sisters brothers, set out on one last job to track down and kill a gold miner and … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2011 Novels
Time to catch up on recent reads that I can recommend. My first book of February is a brand-new offering from a recent favorite writer of mine, Ben H. Winters. I really admire his niche of combining noir detective stories with speculative scenarios. I've read his trilogy set just before a meteor is about to … Continue reading Reading in February
At the end of each year, I round up my favorite five reads of the year--although not all of them were necessarily published this year. This year overall was a good year for reading. I discovered the Nocturnal Readers' box, a monthly mystery box of horror and dark fiction, which although it contained some real … Continue reading Favorite reads of 2017
I highly enjoyed and appreciated Ben H. Winters's gripping new novel, Underground Airlines, on three levels. First, it presents a fascinating what-if scenario. In this alternate America, instead of having a civil war, the states came to a compromise that essentially made slavery constitutional into perpetuity. In the present day, slavery continues to be legal in … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Underground Airlines
