Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (SF novel, 2018). This author’s third SF novel mostly takes place during the final events of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. In this universe, humans long ago fled an environmentally destroyed Earth in a fleet of enormous generational ships. This is by no means a new idea, […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Record of a Spaceborn Few"Head On by John Scalzi (SF/Mystery Novel, April 2018). This novel takes place in Scalzi’s near-future universe introduced in his book Lock In. A strange plague called Haden’s Syndrome (after one of earliest, most famous victims) has left one percent of the world’s population physically and completely paralyzed, though they’re still mentally aware. Thus, Hadens are said […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Head On"Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (Memoir, 2018). Already a New York Times Bestseller, this powerful if slender volume is a memoir, though told in highly poetic and richly evocative prose. Ms. Mailhot is a Canadian-born member of the Salish People now living in the United States. She holds a M.F.A. in fiction from the Institute of […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Heart Berries"Twenty-One Days by Anne Perry (Historical Mystery Novel, April 2018). Already a best-selling author for her series of Victorian-era books featuring master-spy agency guy Thomas Pitt and his mystery-solving wife Charlotte, Anne Perry jumps forward to 1910 to begin a new series built around their son, Daniel. He’s a 25-year-old London barrister who, to start the […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Twenty-One Days"The Bags of Tricks Affair by Bill Pronzini (Historical Crime/Mystery Novel, March 2018). Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon are partners in a private detective agency based in San Francisco in the 1890s. They work well, together or apart, and their friendly banter masks the fact (that they’re only beginning to realize) that they love each other. […]
Read more "REVIEWED: The Bags of Tricks Affair"Death By Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake by Sarah Graves (Cozy Mystery Novel, February 2018). This fun cozy features the amateur detective team from the Home Repair Homicide Series. Set in the same island fishing village up in Maine, “Jake” Tiptree and her best pal Ellie have now opened a chocolate-focused bake shop and they face a make-or-break […]
Read more "REVIEWED: Death By Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake"Stray City by Chelsey Johnson (Contemporary Novel, 2018). In the last months of the 20th century, Andrea Morales is a 20-something artist who has left behind her very conventional Midwestern Catholic upbringing for life as part of the thriving and politically active lesbian community of Portland, Oregon. Most of her associates, friends and lovers are (like […]
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