Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T.J.English
In a recent conversation, T.J. English, the lauded journalist/author, asked me what I knew about Whitey Bulger. Prior to reading...
Holidazed by Tracy Curtis
I got my Christmas present early this year: an advance copy of Tracy Curtis’s Holidazed. It’s a collection of 30 holiday essays by the...
Interview with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Balm
A few weeks ago, I spoke with award-winning author Dolen Perkins-Valdez, whose second novel, Balm, is a lovely, lyrical work set in...
An Interview with Karin Slaughter, author of Pretty Girls
Fair warning: once you’ve read it, you can’t unread it. Karin Slaughter’s latest novel Pretty Girls snatches the genre of psychological...
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
A silent wife is a gift from the Lord, and nothing can be traded for her self-discipline. Sirach 26:14. For some reason, the church that...
Multiple Review: Ghost Fleet, China Rich Girlfriend, Crow Hollow and The Good Neighbor
This is another one of those times when I’ve read quite a bit but nothing stands out as excellent. That’s about to change, because I’m in...
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Fellow book nerds, I have a question: who is NOT reading The Girl On The Train right now? On one hand, I feel obligated to review the hot...
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
I’m going to assume that very few of you are socially inept but brilliant male scientists. But—if you were, and you had come to the...
Multiple Review: The Heist, How To Build A Girl, and Young Money
This week I did not have anything to recommend wholeheartedly, so here are a few mini-reviews of some books I just read. They are...
Multiple Review: Hollow Man, The Killing Kind, A Life Intercepted and Center of Gravity
Last month, I lucked into a bunch of Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) of mostly as-yet unpublished books, which is almost the coolest freebie...