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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
After having watched a good film adaptation of this novel several weeks ago, I had high hopes for the actual book. In places it lived up to those, but overall, just not so much. Knowing where Greene was going with the story made me impatient with the long buildup and non-linear format of the first…
One of the more interesting zombie novels I’ve read. This one is set about 20 years after the zombie apocalypse and focuses on a 10-year-old girl who is very smart, but must come to terms with the fact she is a Hungry, which is the name given to zombies in this story (the word zombie…
A long-time favorite, it had been at least 20 years since I’d traveled with Morgan from the farming island of Hed to see the High One in Erlenstar Mountain. This was one of those transformative books for me, a fantasy that made me think, made me want to look beyond the boundaries of what we…
Tell a little truth with many lies It’s the only way I’ve found — Dio, “Straight Through the Heart” No matter how far out in space your story is set, or how alien your fantasy world, your reader needs a touchstone of reality to identify with. The question, though, especially for those not creating completely…
My goal for 2014 was to read 30 books. I did that, plus three. Of those, I only gave a 1-star review to one title, with everything else getting at least three stars. That’s a pretty good year of reading. I thought I’d recap the highlights here, as I tend to do at the start…
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt My rating: 1 of 5 stars I seldom give up on a book, but about half of this one was all I could take. Within the first couple of chapters I was wondering why I’d thought it would interest me at all. Did I click the…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,000 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…
Face the Music: A Life Exposed by Paul Stanley My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Starchild of KISS finally tells his side of the story in what is really the most readable of the four (co-authored) autobiographies by the band’s original members. While I’ve enjoyed all four books, Paul’s is the one where I…
Steven E. Wedel 