Memory Markers: What I Was Reading When
Books, like people, make such good companions. Getting us through the bad times and helping us celebrate the good times. Making us calmer or piquing our energy. It’s amazing what…
Review of Viral Apocalypse Novel SURVIVOR SONG by Paul Tremblay
An Ode to the Act of “Going On” A super-strain of rabies has attacked Massachusetts. It is a viral apocalypse, in which the bite of infected animals and humans incubates…
Review of Novel – THE PRESIDENT’S DOSSIER by James A. Scott
Putin, Power and U.S. Plutocracy in “The President’s Dossier” The green of cash replaces American red, white and blue in The President’s Dossier (Oceanview Publishing). Author James A. Scott takes readers into a clandestine…
Bibliotherapy in the Time of Covid-19
Everyone needs some magic for the soul. I love books. After my family, they are the center of my universe and always have been. I can’t imagine my life without…
Review of DARK AUGUST by Katie Tallo
Loneliness, Lies, and a Dog Named Levi In her debut novel DARK AUGUST, author and screenwriter Katie Tallo delves into the life of August “Gus” Monet, a young woman who’d…
Review of HUNTING WHITEY by Casey Sherman & Dave Wedge
Deconstructing the legend of a “noble” cold-blooded murderer. The 50-year murderous reign of infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger ended on an oily parking-garage floor in Santa Monica in 2010.…
Review of THE SILENCE by Susan Allott
The historical guilt of a nation ravages the lives of two Australian families. Silence isn’t always golden. It can also be “a cult of forgetfulness practiced on a national scale.” The…
Review of SISTER DEAR by Hannah Mary McKinnon
Envy and obsession explode in author Hannah Mary McKinnon’s newest thriller, SISTER DEAR. Eleanor Hardwicke is a loner, and she deserves it. Her mother has reminded her since childhood that…