When I first encountered The Immortality Key, I was skeptical. Proving that the earliest religions used psychedelics? Was this written by...

You may have seen my book review of Nightmare Alley. Since that review, I’ve seen the recent movie version starring Bradley Cooper. I...

Is it just me, or do the details matter when enjoying fiction? As a citizen of the Washington, DC, area, it annoyed me when the character...

James Paterson’s collaboration with celebrities is an interesting exercise in guessing where one collaborators' work ends and the other...

I was born in North Carolina and went to N.C. State, therefore basketball is my heritage. North Carolina has four traditional powerhouses...

A few months ago, while my wife and I prepared for a signing in our local bookstore of my latest novel, we saw on a nearby rack Nightmare...

A friend thought The Lincoln Highway at 592 pages was too long, but for me, I didn’t want it to stop. I knew Amor Towles could deliver...

I’ve used YouTube for many years. I like making videos and sharing with my friends. At the beginning of December 2021, one of my videos,...

I became interested in the Roman emperor Nero in researching my novel The Fire Starters and touring his buried Golden House in Rome. The...

A.G. Riddle’s Extinction Trials begins with a man inviting leading industrial leaders to a private meeting in which he poses an...

You can judge a book by its cover. Not so with A Family Man. As I write this, author Anna Willett may have changed the cover from the one...

The Madness of Crowds, the latest novel from Louise Penny, was my first exposure to this author’s series of Inspector Gamache mysteries,...

New York puts history in context. It is a family saga with roots in the earliest settlement of Manhattan Island by the Dutch, when it was...

Spoiler Alert: There is nothing to spoil. This installment of the Jack Noble series resolves nothing. Tune in to the next book in the...

A book about crew racing? You mean those ivy league guys rowing in a thin boat? Do I really want to read a book about that? Daniel James...

Nick Thacker serves up a fine sample of the Harvey Bennett series in The Phoenix Project. If you open this novella on Kindle, it may tell...

The Other Emily By Dean Koontz Review When one begins The Other Emily, one might wonder if Dean Koontz has produced a lyrical romance...

Where the Crawdads Sing presents nature through finely crafted prose with a murder mystery attached. It is not surprising that nature...

I’ve been a fan of the writing of Lauren Groff ever since I read Arcadia. She weaves words into tapestries that make this writer smile....

Reading The Ocean Raiders, the reader can easily picture the story as it happens, playing out like a movie – action sequences, cutting...