This is an interesting one – Forgiving Maximo Rothman by A. J. Sidransky On a chilly autumn night in New York, the lives of two men born decades and continents apart collide when Max Redmond is found bludgeoned in his Washington Heights apartment. While investigating the crime, Detective Tolya Kurchenko comes across the dead man’s diaries, written by Redmond over four… Read more
Way back in 2007, my book club read In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. Loved the book (I’m a big fan of real-life adventures) but it was a poor choice for the book club. There wasn’t much to debate, really – whales are big, starvation is bad – and we were all… Read more
This explains a lot… “Write drunk. Edit sober.” – Ernest Hemingway Read more
Hot twins with books? Hard to say. The photo, by dhammza, is called “Double Self Portrait” Read more
Silverblind (Ironskin Book 3) by Tina Connolly: The stunning historical fantasy series that began with the Nebula finalist Ironskin continues in Tina Connolly’s Silverblind Dorie Rochart has been hiding her fey side for a long time. Now, finished with University, she plans to study magical creatures and plants in the wild, bringing long-forgotten cures to those in need. But when… Read more
This is the third book in a series I’m really enjoying. It started with Something Red and continued with The Wicked. Now, Throne of Darkness by Douglas Nicholas: It’s 1215 in northwest England—the eve of the signing of the Magna Carta—and mystical Irish queen Maeve and her unlikely band of warriors must protect the region from a chilling fate. Word of a threat… Read more
“I like liking things. It’s just that there are more books to like than anyone can ever read. Granted, that’s an uptown problem, but a problem nonetheless.” – Sarah Vowell, and isn’t that a great name for a writer? Read more
Another cute boy on Flickr with a book! This is Nicholas reading Tom Clancy’s The Bear and the Dragon. The photographer is Jayel Aheram. Read more
Okay, working my way through the list, this morning we’ve got John the Pupil by David Flusfeder: Set in thirteenth-century Europe, against the backdrop of a medieval world where beauty and violence, science and mysticism, carnality and faith, exist side by side, this is a masterful, mystery-laden novel from the author of The Gift, in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Barry… Read more
This is a book I started ages ago, but I lost track of it on my Kindle (I keep forgetting that it stores galleys as documents, not books). When I managed to unearth it, I was thrilled to be back in the world of Boneshaker by Cherie Priest. It’s set in the wild and woolly Seattle of the 1880’s, with some… Read more