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admin posted this on September 21st, 2020  This one totally intrigued me upfront – the cover, the blurb, Cat Rambo: what’s not to love?? I requested a review copy and was delighted to receive it. I dug in eagerly – the opening grabbed me straightaway – it was full of mysterious intrigue, hints of dark family drama, secrets and hoarded treasures (and not-so-treasures)… It was, in a word, sublime. Until it wasn’t…
Weird. Continue reading Book Review: Carpe Glitter by Cat Rambo
admin posted this on September 18th, 2020  I liked this one. It was a very quick read, more like a novella, particularly in the somewhat shallow character development and presentation. Almost from the beginning, you know who the good and bad guys are. There are no red herrings or twists – which is almost a twist in and of itself these days. The plot wasn’t very complicated, the characters were straightforward and fairly predictable in their behaviors and responses to the events as they unfolded. Continue reading Book Review: Broken by John Rector
admin posted this on September 16th, 2020  I am a huge fan of time travel tales. And of conspiracy stories. And of history/historical fiction. I find the possibilities of infinite worlds of “do-overs” to be a marvelous construct for setting up a story, offering as they do the melding of all these things through a lens of science and magical realism. The result is a whole that feels just this side of possible and highly entertaining… Continue reading Book Review: Seven Rules of Time Travel by Roy Huff
admin posted this on September 14th, 2020 Today I’m pleased to bring you a guest post by Patrick Bailey about the relevance of a 1970s cult classic, Go Ask Alice. I hope you enjoy his thoughtful consideration of the relevance and realism of the novel to today’s world.
 Does the Depiction of Drugs and Addiction in the Book Go Ask Alice Seem Realistic Today?
By Patrick Bailey
The 1971 cult classic book Go Ask Alice is a work of fiction—originally marketed as “A Real Diary”—gained an enormous following and became a 1973 TV movie. It depicted drug abuse and addiction in a way that had never been written before.
Although credited to “Anonymous”, later it was attributed to a purported therapist and author named Beatrice Sparks, possibly with the assistance of at least one co-author, Linda Glovach.
Set in the late 1960s, it is supposedly the diary of an unnamed teenage girl (the title is a song lyric) who falls into addiction at age 15. Continue reading Guest Post: Does the Depiction of Drugs and Addiction in the Book ‘Go Ask Alice’ Seem Realistic Today? by Patrick Bailey
admin posted this on September 11th, 2020  Oh my goodness, but this was an absolute delight of an adventure! When Alexander Watson and his partner Dale Harris found themselves in a mad case of love at first sight with a classic wooden boat, they decided to abandon their previous lives (adventures in and of themselves) in favor of traveling America’s heartland via river. Armed only with their wits and a truly fabulous dog named Doris Faye, the two set sail on a journey that brings them adventure, hostility, unexpected friendships, beauty, tragedy, and hilarity. It’s a true adventure story – and there aren’t many of these being written these days… Continue reading Book Review: River Queens by Alexander Watson
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This one totally intrigued me upfront – the cover, the blurb, Cat Rambo: what’s not to love?? I requested a review copy and was delighted to receive it. I dug in eagerly – the opening grabbed me straightaway – it was full of mysterious intrigue, hints of dark family drama, secrets and hoarded treasures (and not-so-treasures)… It was, in a word, sublime. Until it wasn’t…
