July 2023
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PLAYS FOR THREE – Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, editors
Any good theatre student could tell you that three is an ideal minimum number of actors to have on stage at a time because it offers the best opportunity for stage ‘pictures.’ Three characters also provides more conflict possibilities between characters while keeping the number of actors (often seen in terms of cost – especially Continue reading
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THE SHADOW – James Patterson and Brian Sitts
I’d heard that bestselling author James Patterson had written a new “The Shadow” novel and, being a fan of the pulp era literature, I wanted to check it out so I picked up a copy at my local library. Lamont Cranston and his girlfriend Margo Lane are out on a date in the 1930’s. Each Continue reading
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STARTER VILLAIN – John Scalzi
Despite the fact that I really like cats (I’ve had cats living with me for about half a century) and I really like science fiction – with John Scalzi being one of my favorite, working writers – I am always leery about picking up a book with cats as a leading or major character. I Continue reading
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THE LAST BLADE PRIEST – W. P. Wiles
I typically have not been very fond of epic fantasy. It’s not that I don’t like the stories or the characters or the fantastic adventures. It’s the complex world-building that is involved in most epic adventures. Maybe it’s an unknown learning disability or an undiagnosed ADD, but the more complex and foreign-sounding the names of Continue reading
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VINYL RESTING PLACE – Olivia Blacke
Juni Jessup and her two sister, Tansy and Maggie, have gone into business together in their hometown of Cedar River, Texas, opening a combination record store and coffee shop. Vinyl LPs are making a comeback after all, despite critics thinking the medium was dead. But speaking of ‘dead’ … finding a dead body in the supply Continue reading
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THE NOVA INCIDENT – Dan Moren
It’s the Galactic Cold War (book three) and as one might expect with a cold war, there are twists and turns and spies in all the politics. A terrorist attack has struck the Nova capital. Kovalic and team are under a lot of pressure to find out who did it and put a stop to Continue reading
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PERILOUS TIMES – Thomas D. Lee
Being a Knight of Arthur’s Roundtable requires an oath to serve and protect but thanks to some shenanigans on the part of Merlin, those knights live a very long, obsequious life. They are not quite immortal, though from the perspective of mere mortals, they would seem to be. When the world needs them the most Continue reading
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BACKPACKING THROUGH BEDLAM – Seanan McGuire
Alice Price-Healy (of the Price family) has spent 50 years looking for her husband. Now she’s got him, along with Sally – a young girl who’s been trapped in the other dimension with Thomas – and life hasn’t simply returned to where it was when he went missing. Alice and Sally don’t bond well, each suspicious of Continue reading
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THE MAKING OF ANOTHER MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – Tom Hanks
Have you ever been curious about the process of making a major motion picture? Why not read about, in fiction form, from a man who’s been on the inside for decades. The story… A well-recognize and lauded movie director has taken on the task of adapting a 1970’s comic book into a major superhero movie. Continue reading
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FREAKS – Brett Riley
High school sucks. And if you aren’t one of the jocks … worse, if you are branded as one of the outcasts or freaks by your ‘peers’ … then school years are miserable. It’s not uncommon for students in a situation like this to have fantasies of getting special powers that would allow them to Continue reading
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BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER – Ernest Hemingway
You could take an entire university course just studying the works of Ernest Hemingway, so trying to sum up his importance in a blog post would be both presumptive and trite. But if, for some reason, you aren’t already familiar with Hemingway’s work, this short story might be a good place to start. Big Two-Hearted Continue reading
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THE Q – Amy Tintera
Lennon Pierce is the son of U.S. Presidential candidate, Senator Camden Pierce. He’s a bit of a wild child (he’s been arrested a few times for things like drag racing) and doesn’t seem to take life too seriously. That’s about to change when he’s kidnapped, put on a place and strapped into a parachute and Continue reading
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