Happy 148th Birthday, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on this date in 1867 in Pepin, Wisconsin. I have to admit I’ve never read any of her books, though I used to immensely enjoy the TV series “Little House on the Prairie”...
View ArticleBook Review –“Bahamarama”
Below is a book review I wrote back on February 20, 2006 for a now-defunct blog. It’s hard to believe this was nine years ago. In that time, Morris has written three additional books starring Zack...
View ArticleBook Review –“The Secret Wisdom of the Earth”
Fourteen year old Kevin Gillooly and his mother retreat to her father’s Appalachian mountain home in eastern Kentucky following the horrific death of Kevin’s three year old brother. There, both mother...
View ArticleBook Review – Triggerfish Twist
Back on Sunday, February 8th, New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey was appearing late in the afternoon at the downtown branch of the Orlando Library. I really wanted to go, but I already had a...
View ArticleBook Review – Write Your Best Book
After reading and reviewing “What Every Author Should Know”, I leapt at the chance to receive an Advance Reading Copy (ARC) of Deb Vanasse’s latest book for writers, “Write Your Best Book.” Vanasse...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary, Book Of The Month Club
Do you remember the Book of the Month Club? I can recall that my mom was a member when I was growing up. You could initially join by choosing 3 or 4 books from their catalog of bestselling books and …...
View Article“The Scarlet Letter” Published 165 Years Ago Today
It was on this day in 1850 that “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne was first published. I remember my 11th grade American Literature teacher in high school assigning it to us to read and how...
View ArticleDictionary Of Clichés
A couple of weeks ago when Cindy and I were over at Daytona Beach, we stopped in at a used book store we had visited before. I walked back to the “Writing” section and after a minute or two of …...
View ArticleThe 14 Highest Rated Books Of 2015
Goodreads shared with BuzzFeed their 14 highest rated books of 2015, as voted on by members of Goodreads (I’m one, are you?) thus far this year. Under the Fiction category I’ve already read The Secret...
View ArticleBook Riot’s “10 Scariest Books You’ve Read” Survey
A few weeks ago Book Riot ran the results of a survey they took about the “10 Scariest Books You’ve Read” and while the outcome was not all that surprising (Stephen King books grab the majority), I...
View ArticleBook Review – Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
“Because the soup is getting cold.” – Leonardo da Vinci Back in November of last year, I had the opportunity to attend the Texas Book Festival here in Austin, Texas for the first time. I was especially...
View ArticleDo You Read Books?
As an avid and voracious reader this statistic, from the Pew Research Center, that 26% of American adults have not read even a part of a book in the past year just blows my mind. Are you part of the …...
View ArticleBook Review – The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
A couple of months ago I was reading about a new book coming out titled “The Oracle Year” by Charles Soule (the “e” is silent) and what caught my attention in the review was that the writer was also a...
View ArticleBook Review – Armada by Ernest Cline
When I went to BookPeople a couple of weeks ago for the reading/book signing of “The Oracle Year” by Charles Soule, I also picked up a copy of a signed edition of “Armada” by Ernest Cline. I pretty...
View ArticleBook Review – Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski
“Becoming Superman”, by J. Michael Straczynski is the writer’s autobiographical story of his childhood and career, constantly backlit by his desire to emulate the greatest superhero of all time;...
View ArticleBook Review – The Enemy by Lee Child
So this will sound like sacrilege, I’m sure, to some but I don’t recall ever hearing about the character Jack Reacher until the year 2012 while working a flood in North Dakota when a former co-worker,...
View ArticleBookcrossing Again
Almost 12 years ago I began practicing Bookcrossing for the second time, but over the past 2 years I found myself doing hardly any, for many reasons but mostly because I was doing a LOT of my reading...
View ArticleBook Review – The Black Angel by John Connolly
The Black Angel by John Connolly was one of the dead tree books in my TBR stack that I brought back from Wolf’s Haven to read while I am working remotely in Orlando. The Author Connolly, an Irish-born...
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