I’m back to J. A. Jance again with this fascinating novel of suspense and mystery. I like Jance’s characters and her ability to keep the suspense going whilst keeping you involved with those characters. The mystery is good, though I guessed most of it a bit too early for my test. I might well credit…
I like Timothy Zahn’s writing a great deal, though I prefer the conqueror series to any of his other writing. Nonetheless Blackcollar and Cobra material is really, really good, so the comparison is not that hard. I found The Third Lynx and the earlier book in the series Night Train to Rigel to be substantially…
This is another Pip & Flinx adventure. I have to confess that while I love Alan Dean Foster, who is one of those authors I look for on most trips to the library and every trip to the bookstore, I am getting a little overdosed on these books. The problem is that we have had…
Since I blogged about this Psalm before, and rewrote it into an Italian Sonnet (largely for my own edification, though I couldn’t resist sharing), I thought I’d call attention to my previous post now that it’s the lectionary Psalm for this coming Sunday.
From a comment on my Threads blog, I found Beyond Words and after perusing it a bit, I decided to add it to my blogroll here. I keep intending to add new writing blogs here regularly, but it seems like this blog always gets my attention last, so things get out of date pretty quickly….
This is the third volume of the Twins of Petaybee series. To let you know how I felt about the book, let me quote what I said about Maelstrom, the second in the series: It is lighter than the Dragonrider series, and I don’t find the cultural background anywhere near as interesting, but the characters…
I finally managed to watch this movie a few days ago, and found it to be pretty much what I expected. It was a very limited plot designed to connect the various violent scenes and special effects. Fortunately those were good. It’s nice to get this without paying for it (Netflix), but if you’d like…
have been learning to use my Palm Centro more from the road, or for times like right now when I have things shut down due to severe thunderstorms. So I installed Postie, which massively improves post by mail. I haven’t found posting directly impossible but this is more convenient. Watch for more short posts from…
. . . in book reviews. In this intriguing post, Bob Harris crafts a compelling list of words that all writers should eschew when they muse upon the content of a book they are about to review. Unfortunately, despite his best use of vocabulary, I found his post neither lyrical nor poignant. Try harder Bob!…
[This is a work of fiction, as should be obvious throughout. Nothing in it resembles anything else enough to be mistaken for reality, but just in case someone disagrees, if you think it represents something in real life, it doesn’t. This is the second installment in the Tlisli Series, and is continued from Tlisli’s Escape.]…
