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COMPLETELY KAFKA – Nicholas Mahler
A biography of Franz Kafka told in minimalist, illustrative form. I was really thrilled to get this book. I’m a tremendous fan of the work of Franz Kafka and, many decades ago, I had read through his collected letters and diaries. Getting a new work out there, to reach a new audience – especially those Continue reading
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SHORES OF A NEW HORIZON – M. Darusha Wehm
The work of terraforming Mars has been a long and challenging process but just as the hopes of those living on the red planet reach an excited level as success looks to be within reach. But disaster looms as a contaminated ice asteroid threatens the planet’s water supply. Professor Zambrotta “Zammi” Kaspar is charged with Continue reading
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DOUBLE EXPOSURE – Robert Sullivan
Timothy O’Sullivan was an American photographer in the 19th century. Some of his photos are among the most iconic of the American Civil War. After the war, O’Sullivan traveled to the American West, raising photography to an art form with his pictures of what was still considered to be unusual locations. His work had an Continue reading
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SHAKESPEARE’S EAR – Tim Rayborn
I started to read this book on multiple occasions but would put it away barely getting past the Introduction each time. The problem? I really didn’t care for author Tim Rayborn’s ‘voice’. Rayborn makes little asides and and remarks that a middle school boy would find funny (generally sexually charged comments, like: The wonderfully named Continue reading
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ONE-ARMED JACK – Sarah Bax Horton
Jack the Ripper. The mystery, the legend, the search for his identity never lets up and every few years someone presents their case for uncovering the true identity of the Ripper. The latest in this long line of discoveries is Sarah Bax Horton’s One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper. Horton claims a bit of Continue reading
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BIRDING TO CHANGE THE WORLD – Trish O’Kane
I’m really torn on how to rate this book. There is some really great environmental, grassroots, activism here and author Trish O’Kane details the beginnings of her interest in bird watching and how it leads to the activism, but for me, there’s something missing in the connection. O’Kane starts us in Louisiana as she and Continue reading
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THE HOUSE THAT HORROR BUILT – Christina Henry
Harry Adams is a single mother raising a teenage boy in the post-COVID world. She’s willing to do anything to provide a better world for her son and she takes whatever job she can get, currently it’s cleaning houses. Being a fan of horror movies, when horror film director Javier Castillo is looking for a Continue reading
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THE FELLOWSHIP OF PUZZLEMAKERS – Samuel Burr
Pippa Allsbrook is a 50+ year old, unmarried, crossword puzzle enthusiast. She she feels a bit empty in her life, and would like to socialize with others who share her interest in puzzles. She starts a club and recruits a number of other puzzle enthusiasts with diverse interests and talents. Still, though, Pippa doesn’t quite Continue reading
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BIG TIME – Ben H. Winters
Allie is being kidnapped. She’s handcuffed and in the back of an SUV, driven by the kidnapper, Desiree. But Allie is just as confused as she is scared. She’s a middle school teacher and she was just enjoying a day at the park with her infant daughter when she was abducted and rendered unconscious. An Continue reading
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WORMHOLES – Dennis Meredith
Without warning, an apparent sink hole completely swallows up a home in Oklahoma. Other disasters also occur around the world about the same time, and when a human arm falls out of the sky in Missouri, geologist Dacey Livingstone teams up with physicist Gerald Meier to understand what’s happening. Dacey had already explored the house-swallowing sink-hole Continue reading
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GHOST STATION – S.A. Barnes
Ophelia Bray is a psychologist whose specialty is a space-related PTSD-like symptom called ERS which can bring on violent episodes. She’s now assigned to be a part of a small exploration crew. This crew is being sent to a remote, old, abandoned planet. The crew has been together for awhile now and they’re not too Continue reading
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THE ROOF WALKERS – Keith Henderson
It is 1864 and the Civil War in the United States is waning. Irish-Canadian Eoin O’Donoghue is hired as the personal secretary to William R. Roberts in New York. Roberts is the de facto head of the Irish Republican Army in New York. O’Donoghue is appalled at what he sees and the seemingly carelessness of Continue reading
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