This book is about a middling cat with a crooked tail. What is middling? The book states that middlings commonly have a comfortable standard of living, considerable economic security, moderate work plus life autonomy and often rely on their own expertise to sustain themselves. They...

In "Marmaduke" Margaret Pearce tells the tale of two young boys, Billy and Rusty, and an adventure that involves them and Billy's pet mouse Marmaduke. The story opens with the two friends working together on fixing Billy's bicycle. They head out for the day, looking...

"Rebecca and the Hobgoblin Invasion: The Wingless Fairy: Book 2" by Margaret Pearce Rebecca is an interesting book. Rebecca's house goblin Golly is missing. If that isn't bad enough, she discovers that it is not just her house goblin that is missing ... all of...

What would it feel like to see the world through the green eyes of a cat? No need to guess, just read "The Unconventional Life of Haee" by R.S. Vern. The story made me keep turning the pages till the very end, as the writing...

This is the first book of a trilogy, hence it has a certain amount of introductory material. As at the end of "The Fellowship of the Ring", the ending of this book finishes something, but it clearly leads into the next book. One sign of...

Falcon's Bend, a small sleepy town in Wisconsin, is just that, and doesn't see an overabundance of violent crime. That is until one fateful night when a dancer from the town's Gentlemen’s Club is found strangled. As the investigations get underway, Detectives Pete Shasta and...

If you ever wished you could have been alive in ancient Egypt, “Amarnan Kings Series is the book series for you. This fourth episode in the series begins at a 1960 archaeological site in Syria. Buried in an unusual cliff-side setting is an Egyptian tomb,...

Twenty-seven year old Cascade Preston often wondered what it would be like to have someone to lean on, because she has always felt alone. She is a successful stained glass artist who hasn't really dealt with a past that still haunts her, a past that...

“Scarab – Horemheb: The Amarnan Kings Book 5” by Max Overton is another exciting and action-packed episode in the life of the – presumably – fictional Scarab, a daughter, sister, niece, mother, wife, and grandmother to various Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. This chapter in her...

Pete Shasta is a vulnerable, believable, likable police inspector. He is the kind of book cop you really want to get to know. And get to know him you do in the five tightly crafted crime tales that comprise "Falcon’s Bend Case Files, Volume 1:...

“A deliciously intriguing place to read about, but I won’t want to live there.” Those were my thoughts as I finished reading the six sagas that comprise the latest 'Falcon’s Bend chronicle', "Falcon’s Bend Case Files II". A normal life always seems to be just...

Is the female truly the more deadly of the species? You decide after reading the latest crime novel "Tears on Stone", the second in the 'Falcon’s Bend' series. The setting is again the ill-starred community of Falcon’s Bend. Police Department investigator Pete Shasta and his...

Karen Wiesner and Chris Spindler weave a mystery that keeps the reader on edge throughout "The Fifteenth Letter". Their story tells of Amber Carfi, who at age seven spent hours with her father devising a secret code to a nonexistent globe Zeke promised to construct...

What if you could invent a computer that would be able to predict the stock market? Would you do it and if so how would you ensure that you program it so that it can understand the psychology of the market in addition to the...

"Beer in the Bilges" is a true life account of three men’s sailing adventure in the South Pacific. The book is split up into four parts. The first part is the story of “Hollywood” Bob from New Zealand’s sailing adventure from California to New Zealand...

If you are curious and like reading other people's diaries, then "Bernie Bolton's Book" by Sheryl Criswell Sturdevant is a good book for you. It is a charming little book/diary/journal (Bernie can't really make up her mind on what to call it) written by a...

Herb Marlow has written a provocative and in-depth story about material values from a Christian point of view. In The Laughter of God, Marlow gives the reader an ordinary guy named Bill Harmony. At first glance, Bill is simply a factory worker who does his...

Greenspell: A Fantasy Anthology by Kathy Ann Trueman is a stunning collection of magical short stories. In “The Sow’s Ear” the opening short story in the collection, previously published in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s “Swords and Sorcerers” anthology series, Janell is a young mage who makes...

The Adventure of I: A Journey to the Centre of Your Reality is not a quick or light read. Author Tania Kotsos was inspired to write this book by the inscription on the Ancient Temple of Apollo: "Know Thyself." The author stresses the need to...

Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series, Book 1: Bound Spirits by Karen Wiesner is an eerie, ghostly story. Bloodmoon Cove Park is known for its history of ghosts. The sheriff shut down the park after the death of Dave Kotter there last year. Troy and his three...