Book Review
The San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff Through the Lens of Time
by Ho Lin
Pairing alluring photographs from the past and the present, "The San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff Through the Lens of Time" captures changes to a diverse region. John L. Vankat’s photography collection "The San Francisco Peaks and...
Book Review
Tastes Better from Scratch Cookbook
by Ho Lin
Tastes Better from Scratch is a solid, meat-and-potatoes cookbook that will inspire cooks at all levels. Sometimes simple is best when it comes to food, as Lauren Allen’s Tastes Better from Scratch demonstrates. Allen specializes in...
Book Review
Just Enough
by Ho Lin
Azby Brown looks to the past to find future methods for sustainable living in "Just Enough". Centering his studies on Edo-era Japan, Brown focuses on the concept of the “circular economy,” in which resources are preserved and...
Book Review
Vibrant Interiors
by Ho Lin
Visually stunning and packed with advice, "Vibrant Interiors" serves up plenty of inspiration for adding spice and life to every type of interior space. Author and designer Andrea Monath Schumacher champions an inclusive, multicultural...
Book Review
Sinkhole
by Ho Lin
"Sinkhole"’s murder mystery takes place in the swampy hinterlands of Florida, with emphasis on teenage trauma and buried secrets brought to light. In June of 2001, Michelle, a native of the backwater Lorida, comes home for the first...
Book Review
Boys, Beasts & Men
by Ho Lin
The line between figurative and literal beasts is blurred in the inventive stories of Sam J. Miller’s Boys, Beasts & Men. The book’s conjured funhouse worlds are both familiar and alien. Small-town family tensions are exacerbated...
Book Review
The Lost Ryū
by Ho Lin
In Emi Watanabe Cohen’s family-oriented fantasy novel The Lost Ryū, a boy, with his miniature dragon, comes to grips with past tragedies and forges ahead with optimism. Ten-year-old Kohei lives in Japan, where most people keep ryū,...
Book Review
Six Degrees of Latitude
by Ho Lin
"Six Degrees of Latitude" is engaging as it salutes a woman’s discovery of, and connection to, Scottish and Irish locales. Leslie Lee’s travel book "Six Degrees of Latitude" is both an intimate journal and an overview of Scottish and...