Now we make you ugly,, begins this novel of the life of Ladydi Garcia Martinez, a young girl living in Guerrero, a province in Mexico on the border of the United States and in the heart of the Mexican drug cartels. The cartel thugs make a practice of kidnapping the prettiest of the young girls…
Read more Nobody did anything as stupid as calling the police.
The stories of the journalists who wrote the stories of Katrina and Watergate and the Boston pedophile priests, and many more, resulting in journalism’s highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize for public service. If you’re a writer, here are the nuts and bolts exposed. If you’re a supporter of the First Amendment, here’s why it’s necessary.…
Maori cop Tito Ihaka has been put out to pasture for five years and is living a rural life out in the New Zealand sticks when a message arrives from his old boss saying he needs Ihaka’s help. Back to Auckland he goes, where he discovers that the case he got fired over has…
Well okay then, just rip the beating heart out of my breast why don’t you. Eleven-year old August “Auggie” Pullman has a genetic defect that makes his face look like Darth Sidious after he gets burned by Sith lightning, and boy does he know it. Rat boy. Freak. Monster. Freddy Krueger. E.T. Gross-out. Lizard face.…
Read more Well okay then, just rip the beating heart out of my breast why don’t you.
Orphaned Joey Getchie lives in just the latest of a series of foster homes, this one slightly less awful than the last one, and is powering through high school to graduate early so he can file for emancipation and get the hell out while the getting’s good. But then there is his growing interest…
Hillbilly Elegy is a different kind of memoir, one that serves a larger purpose and one that could not be more apropos in this election year. J.D. Vance was born in Kentucky hill country to a numerous family, one side of which was related to the infamous Hatfields of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. The coal mines…
What if you could reach into the pages of The Lord of the Rings and pull out the One Ring? Well, relax, because The Lord of the Rings is one of the books that is sealed by First Libriomancer Johannes Gutenberg himself, and our hero, Isaac Vainio, has been banned from using his abilities for…
Read more What if you could reach into the pages of The Lord of the Rings and pull out the One Ring?
So, okay, I read this book because it kept popping up on social media as a fabulous read, and yes, I liked it. Octopuses (because now I know the plural isn’t octopi) are intelligent A staffer put food inside the ball but later was surprised to find that no ony had the octopus opened the…
Read more Roland found octopuses can open the childproof caps, an achievement that eludes many PhDs.
Any book that begins with Virgil Flowers naked in a swimming hole works for me. Add in two catnapped Amur tigers, immigrant workers being exploited in a pickle factory, a homicidal animal rights activist, Frankie the farmer girlfriend who is, reluctantly I say it, worthy of Virgil’s undivided attention, Sparkle her idiot sister, Bill the…
Read more Sandford is always good but this book? Is even better.
This book wound up in my to-read pile by way of one of those Internet rabbit holes that began with this article on Atlas Obscura (a very dangerous site you should stay the hell away from, except not), which informed me To children worldwide, Virginia Lee Burton is the beloved hand behind half a dozen…
