23 in 23!
Phew…I just finished reading my 23rd book in 2023, meeting my year-end goal by a whisker. Mostly fiction, I dipped a toe in 12 genres, with five books from the calendar year. Welcome your comments and recommendations as I go for 24 in 2024… Happy reading & Happy New Year! My Top 10 Favorite Books […]
Read MoreAnd the Winner is…
A lover of year-end lists, here’s “My Top 10 Books” of the 21 I read in 2022. Welcome your thoughts and recommendations for 2023. Happy New Year! The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood The Best of Richard Matheson – Richard Matheson The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen Edgar A. Poe: A Biography […]
Read MoreYEAR OF READING PLEASURABLY
Happy New Year! Another plague-ridden year for the world meant another ideal one for page-turning pursuits. My Goodreads account tells me I finished 21 books in 2021, the majority novels and several published during the calendar year. Joining the “best of” lists making the rounds, please find below my favorite books read over the past […]
Read MoreA “Simple” Summer Sale
Just in time for your summer reading pleasure, from now until the end of July my first novel A Simple Game is available for only $1.99! You can read my international thriller about a group of terrorists who try to hold the world hostage by systematically killing our biggest sports stars any number of ways – […]
Read MoreIt’s Your Money (and Mine)!
So, we’ve gone and done it again. We just topped ourselves as a species for spending cash on various ways to kill each other. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), global military spending in 2016 rose for the second consecutive year to $1.7 trillion. In case that number doesn’t mean much to […]
Read MoreMy Maserati does 185!
Nope, not really…not yet, anyway. But I did grab your attention (with a nod to Joe Walsh). Now that I’ve got it, let’s have a motivational talk. Seems the older I get, the harder it gets to keep motivated. Part of it, I know (even if I hate to accept it), is I’m getting older: […]
Read MoreSee You in Court!
Past month or so got you down? Want to escape from it all? Feel like getting lost in someone else’s problems bigger than your own? William Landay’s powerful courtroom page-turner Defending Jacob might just be the cure for you. The Case: Assistant district attorney Andy Barber heads a high-profile murder trial of a brutally slain teen-aged […]
Read MoreSeeing Red!
Like Dr. Frankenstein sparking his infamous monster to life, I feel compelled to revive the long-buried sportswriter inside me, at least for a day. And what, you ask, necessitates this radical resurrection? The greatest creature of them all: Manchester United vs. Liverpool! Okay, so it’s only a football/soccer match. And we’ve got Syria and ISIL […]
Read MoreA “Fall” Worth Taking!
One measure of any great thriller, I think, is its ability to keep you gripped and guessing until the very end. Or, in this case, until right “Before the Fall.” Noah Hawley’s edgy and absorbing 2016 novel tells the story of a private plane full of rich passengers that crashes off the coast of Martha’s […]
Read MoreKirk Wolcott’s First Novel
Politics, terrorism, and sports collide in this riveting debut novel by American diplomat and former sportswriter Kirk Wolcott, prompting a crucial question for our time: How far is too far when trying to change the world?
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12/31/2023
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