Here’s what we’ve gotten ourselves into . . . “When the rationing first started the stipends were handed out for free, but as food became scarcer the government required a matching contribution. The amount seems to go up almost every month. There aren’t enough jobs anymore for...
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Here we have a strange, depressing, dystopian novel about a suicide prevention clinic that trains and supplies suicide bombers to terrorist groups. It’s satire, I suppose. Now, if you can swallow that premise, you might enjoy Empty Hearts, a thriller of sorts by the German lawyer and author...
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This book is a story about how one nation, the United States, turned people’s minds into blood-soaked battlegrounds—and how we, the people, can put down our weapons and build something better.” So writes Annalee Newitz in the preface to Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the...
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World War I casts a shadow over Maisie Dobbs’s life throughout the three decades that elapse in Jacqueline Winspear’s bestselling historical fiction series. And the ghosts of that war haunt Maisie and many of those close to her even now, after the Second World War has finally staggered...
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Martha Milano’s husband, Brett, is missing. Actually, she’s Martha Cavatone, because that’s his name. But Hank Palace remembers her as the girl in high school he had a crush on when she babysat him and his little sister. And now a tearful Martha has turned to him to find Brett....
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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.