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Mojave by Johnny D. Boggs My rating: 3 of 5 stars I think there are three classes of Western novel. There are the books like the John Slocum series written by “Jake Logan” and the Preacher series by William W. Johnstone where the action is non-stop and there really isn’t much in the way of…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood My rating: 1 of 5 stars I made it a little more than halfway through this and found myself looking for reasons to avoid it. Life is short, so I quit. I like the concept of a dystopian world ruled by some kind of almost Puritan religious cult. But…

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well, I enjoyed this one. It wasn’t spectacular. It wasn’t bad. In places it was pretty interesting, but overall I found Richard Mayhew to be too whiny for far too long, and then there was nothing unexpected about the ending. That said, I’d love to…

The Kindness of Strangers by Mike McIntyre My rating: 3 of 5 stars Something about the travel narrative just appeals to our sense of adventure. Add in a quest for self-discovery and most of us will be hooked. Mike McIntyre’s story about traveling from San Francisco to Cape Fear, NC, is a perfect recipe for…

Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip My rating: 4 of 5 stars A satisfying conclusion to The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy. I’d forgotten so much of the events and details of this story over the decades since I last read it. Re-reading the series yet again was a nice trip down memory lane,…

Incidents Among the Savages by David R. Lewis My rating: 3 of 5 stars Incidents Among the Savages is a book I maybe shouldn’t have liked as much as I did. It isn’t very original in plot. The main character, who comes to be called Walks in Snow, is too much of a superman to…

The last of my books published by small presses are coming home like pigeons at dusk. The only ones that were still out of my control were Darkscapes, with Fine Tooth Press, and Amara’s Prayer and Little Graveyard on the Prairie with Bad Moon Books. All three books are back in my control now. I appreciate the support shown…

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry My rating: 2 of 5 stars I couldn’t wait for this book to end. It shouldn’t have been this way, but there it was. McMurtry was more frustrating than ever with his head-hopping and back stories about minor characters who just didn’t warrant all that info dumped on the…