Carole King’s Tapestry
I adored Carole King’s Tapestry album throughout my pre-teen years. As a piano student, I finally had something that I could play, and even sing with, that was also playing on the radio. But I neither knew, nor truly cared, about the singer/songwriter who produced the album. However, I snatchedContinue Reading
A Matter of Course
A poor house painter finds a stash of money, quits his job, and boards an elevated train. When he accidentally trips and falls, the voices within his head become unbearable and he lashes out. How these actions impact everyone in the train car is the subject of A Matter ofContinue Reading
Wonderworks
Wonderworks has a unique concept. Let’s look across time and place to find twenty-five literary tools that most impact writing today. Then, show how they began to be used and how they continue to be used today in both books and film. Finally, how you can use the technique inContinue Reading
Fatal Fried Rice
Once again Lana Lee is trying to solve a mystery with her roommate, Megan, and best friend, Kimmie, in Fatal Fried Rice. It’s embarrassing but family-owed Noodle House manager, Lana, can’t cook Chinese food. She sneaks off to a night class to learn on the sly. Of course, she findsContinue Reading
Two Meals a Day
You can move along folks. There’s nothing new to see here! Two Meals a Day tries to combine the currently fashionable intermittent fasting with a grain-less, processed sugar-free, and no seed oil diet. It also throws in aerobic exercise, journalizing, Marie Kondozing, and orange light only before bedtime. If youContinue Reading
You’re History
You’re History takes a unique perspective to music criticism. Finally, the lyrics alone are not the point. “The most captivating music is slippery, telegraphing a secret meaning while asserting its intentions at face value. Music is not always about depth and timber: sometimes the song is best served by aContinue Reading
Her Dark Lies
Her Dark Lies is a dark gothic thriller set on an Italian island where everyone has secrets and people keep dying. It was supposed to be a romantic island wedding. But then the first body is found. And what really happened to the groom’s first wife? The wife that wentContinue Reading
What Unites Us
At its heart, What Unites Us is a memoir of an elderly white man’s life from the casual racism of his youth to the Trump administration’s perceived nationalism. It also attempts to explain what is causing our national chaos and how we can, and should, move forward toward a kinder,Continue Reading
A Matter of Life and Death
Judge Anthony Carasco has a problem. He loves a beautiful prostitute named Stacey, who he has set up in her own apartment. But he can’t let his rich wife divorce him over his affair. He wants to keep her trust fund money for himself. His solution is an immensely complicatedContinue Reading
A Game of Cones Review and Giveaway
My Review In A Game of Cones, Browyn is the manager of her family-owned ice cream shop in small town Chagrin Falls, Ohio. During a town meeting, a big city real estate developer mentions his plans to build a vertical mall in the historic town triangle. Later that day, heContinue Reading
Double or Muffin Review and Giveaway
My Review Just when you thought reality shows couldn’t get any cattier than RuPaul’s Drag Race, enter the world of Opera Divanation! In Double or Muffin, Merry and her business partner Pish host a competition show for aspiring opera singers in her castle in upstate NY. If you, like me,Continue Reading
Good Eggs
In Good Eggs, Kevin Gogarty has 99 Problems and a light-fingered mum is one. Eighty-three year-old Millie is caught shoplifting in the local shop. But it was only a birthday card and a packet of crisps. What’s the worst that could happen? “A single horrid thought filters through: if theContinue Reading
Too Good to Be True
Burke, Heather and Skye are entwined in the most convoluted love triangle I’ve ever read. Just when you think you have it all figured out, BANG!, the plot abruptly changes direction. If a mate seems Too Good to Be True, they probably are is a truism for a reason. AndContinue Reading
A Side of Murder Guest Post and Giveaway
Author Guest Post-To Eat or Not to Eat, That is the Question If I have a patron saint, it is surely Julia Child. After all, it was St. Julia of Child who famously said, “People who love to eat are always the best people.” I like that quote so muchContinue Reading
Every Last Fear
Matt has been through a lot in the past few years. His brother, Danny, was convicted of his girlfriend’s murder and is now in prison. A Netflix documentary has tried, and failed, to overturn his conviction. Now, the worst has happened. Matt’s father, mother and two younger siblings have diedContinue Reading
Deadly Darkness Guest Post and Giveaway
Guest Post-Short Wave Radio in World War II Short Wave Radio was used many different ways during World War II. This is as true for the U.S. and Britain as it was in the occupied countries, Berlin, and Tokyo. With today’s big screen TVs, cellphones, internet, and streaming video, weContinue Reading