Dan Brown’s latest Robert Langdon tale, Inferno, is more of the same in the genre. The usual recipe is present: a bright, attractive female companion, a puzzle that leads the protagonists from location to location, an assassin in pursuit, and anunknown end. This is not fine literature but it is more time in the world […]
When The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker was proposed in the book club, I was enthusiastic about the topic and intrigued by the description. A woman’s magic and fantasy book that sounded like it would speak to me in some way. Nora, a under-achieving graduate student finds herself wandering lost
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I didn’t want to like The Host by Stephenie Meyer as much as I did but I admit I really liked the style, pacing, content and characters. Maybe I was so familiar with the style from my Twilight addiction that I felt some kinship with this story but it sucked me in and I couldn’t
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (Sookie Stackhouse #13.5) by Charlaine Harris isn’t a story so much as a coda. This is an A-Z directory of what happened to all of the characters after the final Dead Ever After novel. There was such an outrage of how Dead Ever After
Several years ago, Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazrio was the UCSB Reads choice for the year. I didn’t read it at the time and when I was a volunteer at the library, I was amazed by how many copies of this title were on the shelves. This is a non-fiction account of the trials and
