November 8, 2024
The Rich People Have Gone Away: A Novel
Sometimes, there is an impulse to leave it all behind, disappear, or walk away. The heroine in this novel has just such a moment when her emotionally troubled husband goes too far....
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November 7, 2024
Bury Your Gays
This book has an interesting conceit that falls a bit flat toward the end and the idea of a gay panic amongst small town people is a little dated. Chuck Tingle is known for his odd...
November 6, 2024
Thy Mother Is A Lioness
Catherine de Medici, Queen Regent of France, hopes to teach her youngest daughter, Marguerite, to be smart and knowledgeable in political issues. She narrates tales that explore he...
November 5, 2024
Macbeth (Play on Shakespeare)
Such is the power of this play that the very title cannot be spoken in any theater. There are supernatural forces, witches, thunder, lightning, murder, and mayhem in this play. It ...
November 4, 2024
Baby Bat Bedtime
What is cuter than a baby bat who doesn’t want to go to bed? It must be hard to go to sleep when most other animals are waking up. Sometimes, you just need a snack, a cuddle, and a...
October 29, 2024
Swan Song
When Coco takes a job as a personal concierge for a couple moving to Nantucket, she has no idea what she’s getting herself into. This is the latest (and last?) installation in Elin...
October 28, 2024
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories
Zen and the Art of Spaceship Maintenance and Other Stories is an anthology by best-selling author Tobias Buckell. This fifteen short story collection contains many original tales f...
October 25, 2024
A Concerto for an Empty Frame: Music for Survival
In lyrical prose, flowing words and unique definitions A Concerto for an Empty Frame tells the story of love, loss, and heartbreak in a collection of poems. As with most poetry, no...
October 24, 2024
Kareem Between
Kareem, an American born to Syrian immigrant parents, is desperate to join the middle-school football team. His best friend, Adam, has moved away and Kareem is determined to make t...
July 10, 2024
How America Works… and Why it Doesn’t by William Cooper
Book Summary: Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation’s...
June 10, 2024
Part 7: Interview With Rick Moskovitz, Author of The Pinocchio Chip
The Pinocchio Chip is a first-person account of an AI’s quest for the Holy Grail of consciousness: human emotions. It delves deep into the essence of what it means to be alive, cha...
June 6, 2024
Part 10 of “The Haircut Who Would Be King” by Robert Trebor Blog Tour
This is a satirical portrayal of Donald Trump’s ascent to power and his unconventional alliance with Vladimir Putin. Trump, depicted as egotistical and emotionally stunted since ch...