Fast-paced romantic thriller "Storm of Love" offers many delightful moments but is plagued by many unbelievable coincidences. Readers who are interested in sumptuous parties family lore and exotic locales may enjoy hearing about the... Read More

If Jimmy Culver the thirty-something hero of Eddie Gresham’s frighteningly macabre fantasy novel "Footfalls" were to choose a favourite song it definitely wouldn’t be Lay Your Head on My Pillow. Jimmy’s bed pillow has been his... Read More

A small-town boy Aaron Zalkand fails to get good enough grades and SAT scores to get into Duke University shattering his parents’ carefully orchestrated dreams for his future and knocking him irrevocably off the path they’d hoped his... Read More

“Every time we find a problem with general relativity, the reason why that problem exists turns out to be the same: it’s that things have to be that way in order to avoid creating conflicts with special relativity,” writes Eric... Read More

A very peculiar book "Betrayal" is a mix of science fiction and fantasy that shamelessly draws from both genres yet ultimately appeals to neither one. The author is very good at dialogue decent at characterization and reasonably adept at... Read More

“‘God has not answered our prayers and we’re all dying strangers in a strange land.’” So runs the lament of an exiled matriarch named Cheita whose dying wish to be buried in rural Cuba powers this novel of family social context... Read More

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. —Mark Twain Most self-help books are found to be lacking. They tend to leave people feeling lost and cold and incomplete because they cannot identify... Read More

“I exist. It’s sweet so sweet so slow…” —Jean Paul Sartre In Sartre’s novel Nausea protagonist Roquentin cannot enjoy experiences that once gave him pleasure because he cannot find meaning in existence. Roquentin is... Read More