THE LIGHT THROUGH THE LEAVES BY GLENDY VANDERAH, Lake Union Publishing, 2021 – Here’s a story about one of the more chilling parental nightmares – a baby abduction. Ellis has just seen her husband with another woman. She takes her children to a forested park area where her twins begin fighting and she’s so distraught …
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The spokesman for the National Rifle Association (NRA) says that the best way to stop a bad person with a gun is to have a good person with a gun. Tell that to the supermarket security guard in Buffalo killed by someone better armed and wearing body armor. Stop the school shootings? The NRA says …
Operation Angus by Terry Fallis, McClelland & Stewart, 2021 – Although this is my first foray into the Fallis’ opus, Operation Angus is the third story involving an unlikely set of characters. Angus McLintock is the Member of Parliament for Cumberland-Prescott, Minister of State for International Relations and a former professor of mechanical engineering. The …
There’s quite a storm brewing in ‘Murica now that the GHIT’s appointees on the SuperPreen Court are set to strike down the fifty year old law that legalized abortion. The ‘Publican Party and their traditional supporters are making sure that the moment the law is struck down, every kind of abortion will be illegal in …
The White Ship by Charles Spencer, William Collins Publishing, 2020 – Even if you slumbered through your English history lessons, you might vaguely remember 1066 as the momentous year when the Normans under William the Conqueror squashed the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of Hastings and took control of the country. The next date to jog …
What went wrong? The troops were promised a leisurely drive down the highway to the capital. The roads were supposed to be lined with happy U-Crane peasants cheering, throwing flowers and blowing kisses. The U-Crane Prez, Voldmort Z was going to throw his hands in the air and flee the country. Those in the west …
Storyteller – The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock, Harper Press, 2010 – Roald Dahl once boasted that children all over the world would invite him into their houses for a cup of tea. With 250 million copies of his books sold, he remains one of the best selling children’s authors in the …
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Jane Austen’s Emma – 1996 & 2020 After ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’ is possibly the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels and there have been several cinematic versions for those who enjoy viewing to reading. If you’re like my DDD and dismiss Austen as a novelist whose sole preoccupation is having her characters married off, …
All Systems Red by Martha Wells – Doherty Assoc. publishing 2017 - Take a standard old school sci-fi setting and add robots that have human components. If you remember the Asimov ‘rules’ about robots, you’ll be expecting something in the circuitry that prevents them from running amok and killing all the ‘lesser’ beings that cross …
Hounded by Kevin Nearne (The Iron Druid Chronicles), Del Ray, 2011 - I am now nearing the end of my Christmas gift reading and have drifted back into the third of my DDD’s fantasy book gifts. It’s interesting to compare older fantasy to the contemporary scene. Older fantasy classics often had ‘normal’ people encountering magical …
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