I’ve had the pleasant adventure of being on several television sets, and it’s always fascinating to see how it all works. For every actor, there are maybe ten (or more) people off-screen doing a myriad of jobs to make a few seconds of film happen… Borderline by Mishell Baker, Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll, The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
My distressing viewing this week was the news. Any year we are having a presidential election, the news revs up a notch, but this year is particularly divisive and dramatic… Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop, Double Dead by Chuck Wendig, Staked by Kevin Hearne, The Brimstone Deception by Lisa Shearin
Books of the Week: You, Caroline Kepnes Off Kilter, Hannah Reed Chaos Choreography, Seanan McGuire Otherworld Secrets, Hidden, Forbidden, Kelley Armstrong Stiletto, Daniel O’Malley It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, and I have a lot of books to catch up to. I’d never read Caroline Kepnes’s much-commented on You, …
Books of the Week: A High-End Finish, Kate Carlisle Quiet Neighbors, Catriona McPherson In Their Own Words, edited by Elizabeth Foxwell Hunter, Mercedes Lackey Now that I’m back in the conventional mystery business, it was a pleasure to pick up A High-End Finish. Shannon Hammer is a contractor; she’s taken …
January 24, 2016 Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho An Apprentice to Elves, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear The Journal of Helene Barr, translated by David Bellow The Arrivals, Melissa Marr Somehow, I hadn’t heard of Zen Cho’s book until recently. But it’s a marvelous book, and I’m so glad …
Books of the Week: A Jane Austen Christmas, Carlo DeVito Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll The Promise, Robert Crais Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson Carlo DeVito’s book was an appropriate book to have around during the holidays. I could read a chapter, put it down, and …