Review: Thomas Pluck’s BLADE OF DISHONOR

It’s been a while since I did a review (that isn’t on Criminal Element). It’s been a while since I… Read more Review: Thomas Pluck’s BLADE OF DISHONOR

Book Reviews: Honesty and all that jazz…

There’s been a lot of rabble-rousing on the internet the past week about fake reviews, paid reviews, sock-puppet shenanigans, and… Read more Book Reviews: Honesty and all that jazz…

I realize I haven’t updated this since Jesus was roaming around preaching about the free-market economy and liberal addictions to… Read more The TPR Pile That Ate Little Havana

The books are peopled with Kimelman’s “losers,” those people at the bottom rung of the economic ladder, those people on… Read more Poor People: OUT OF THE WOODS (Chris Offutt) & EVA’S MAN (Gayl Jones)

This book has very little in the way of a plot. I know the back cover promises a plot, but… Read more Book…um… Summary: Foucault’s Pendulum

Earlier this month, I took Brad Parks on a plane with me. Well, not the guy, per se, but his… Read more Faces of the Gone — Review

I signed up for @jenforbus ‘s Criminal Plots Reading Challenge. If you’ve already signed up, too, super. If not, I… Read more Reading Challenge

I found an old book the other day. Its copyright says 1992, so it’s not ancient, but the paper makes… Read more Smells like sunshine…

Remember back in the old days when women who had the audacity to play professional sports were expected to wear… Read more You’ve come…not that far, really, baby!

Books I’ve bought/borrowed/been given that sit, waiting for me to get to them and upcoming book-club picks (in no particular… Read more To Read List