Toddled Dredge

Space Vulture, a sci-fi novel written by childhood friends Gary K. Wolf and Archbishop John J. Myers, is an exercise in nostalgia.  Wolf and Myers tried to capture the spirit of the sci-fi novels they shared when they were kids.  There is space travel, extravagant weaponry, bold heroes and evil masterminds.  The technology is impossible [...]

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Historical fiction is a tricky business. The author has to walk a perilous line between writing characters who are true to the period and writing characters that appeal in some way to the reader of today. It is not easy to do both. So many authors bungle it that for a while [...]

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Escape is Carolyn Jessop’s account of her life within the FLDS, the fundamentalist mormon sect, and her gradual change from a believer in its religion to a woman who feared its abuses and needed to get out.
Jessop lived in the Short Creek area of Utah-Arizona, where the FLDS dominates a few small towns and their [...]

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I have loved McKinley’s work for years, and was excited to read her new novel. I waited eagerly all summer, and finished the book in three days when it finally came out.
Dragonhaven is the story of an adolescent boy who lives in North America’s last dragon preserve. In the world of the novel, [...]

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When I try a mystery author unfamiliar to me, I rarely start with her first book. The first book is rarely the best, and I want to read the author’s best work first, if possible. I began reading Carol O’Connells’s series about detective Kathleen Mallory about eight years ago, and have enjoyed it [...]

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