Here’s a murder mystery with an implausible plot and an unlikely heroine that’s fun and rewarding to read despite the flaws. Harini Nagendra’s Murder Under a Red Moon, her second effort about the Bangalore Detectives Club, stars nineteen-year-old Kaveri Murthy. Because she...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes This dinosaur survived the Cretaceous Extinction. His name is Sweet Blood of Easy Prey Just After Slaughter, but they don’t know that. He’s Charlie to them. He’s only about five feet tall, so he’s not unmanageably large. And now...
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We remember Sherman’s March largely because of the dramatic scene portraying the burning of Atlanta in the blockbuster 1939 film Gone With the Wind. It was the top-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation, and it’s still popular online. But that horrific scene when the...
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Most Western historians view the years between about 500 CE and 1500 CE as the Middle Ages, and they typically divide the period into three sections of 500 years each. The bookmarks for the period are the collapse of the Roman Empire and the “discovery” of the Americas. But this is a...
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People as diverse as Bill Gates, Greta Thunberg, and Paul Hawken, among many others, have advanced scores of ideas about how to address climate change. But is there a single idea that holds the greatest promise of quick, large-scale action? In author Tom Rosenstiel’s fast-moving political...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.