Category: Books

Reading The Goldfinch, about which I have mixed feelings. It’s a bit too whiny-millennial for my tastes, sort of a 21st-century Catcher in the Rye.

Over the weekend I finished reading the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series that I started back in June. This is a pretty good series, written on a small scale, that takes place during the Spanish Civil War and afterward. I’d recommend it without reservation and with moderate enthusiasm. Carlos Ruiz Zafon …

22 years ago I first picked up The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan and read it rapidly, instantly engaged by the quick pace and broad scope of a then-young Robert Jordan’s writing. Of course I had no idea that it would be more than 2 decades before I …

Saving this pic for posterity – pretty cool!

This is a teaser, but for those of you who haven’t given up, I’ve decided to publish Recognition as an e-book. This is the first half of what some of you have read. It should be on Kindle soon and other platforms to follow shortly. I’ll post an update when …

Years after most of the rest of the fantasy-reading world, I finished reading the Harry Potter series over the weekend. I would have been in there with the crowd had the Sorcerer’s Stone been interesting to me at the time. Sadly, it failed to capture my attention and I stopped …