The Showtime television series, which just recently won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and had the highest rating for any show in Showtime history is based on this book. Dexter is one of the best shows on television and recently ended it fourth season with a huge shock, but I won’t ruin it for [...]

I may be a little late in reading Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons.  I know many people have already read this thriller.  The reason I picked it up was because I saw the movie and someone told me the book was much better—as is usually the case.  This book is filled with symbols and history about [...]

Sex with a woman in trouble, a dead body, questions from the police and the call of the streets along with a cantankerous pooch all conspire to disturb the settled life of Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins and that is just the beginning of Walter Mosley’s “A Little Yellow Dog”. The word formula applies to most mystery [...]

While cleaning out my attic to make room for baby stuff  I came across boxes of books that I read when I was a child. My mom saved all my favorite books for me. I brought the boxes downstairs and spent the evening reminiscing with characters as if they were old friends whom I haven’t [...]

So vampires aren’t really my thing. Never have been. I never liked Anne Rice, I never really got the draw. I read Bram Stoker, but…
Then Twilight came along and someone said it was the next Harry Potter, so I read it. And I LOVED it. I guess it was all downhill from there. I admit [...]

In my defense, when I bought this book, I thought it was going to be a fantasy novel. As I’ve said before, I’ve been on a YA Fantasy kick. It wasn’t fantasy, but it was still amazing.
Taylor Markham was abandoned by her mother on the Jellicoe Road in a rural section outside of Sydney, Australia. [...]