reviews

When TSHTF Author: Kristin Hannah Thirteen year-old Leni is starting to doubt her mother’s claims that this time, at last, a change in scenery will cure her violent father’s PTSD and they’ll lapse into a happily ever after. Ernt Allbright, loving yet troubled father, has never been the same since his stint as a POW in Vietnam. Cora, Leni’s mother and Ernt’s overly loyal wife, claims that a simpler, more beautiful time existed long before Leni can remember and that they’ll find that magic again – just do what Ernt says. What Ernt says this time isn’t really different than [...]

Some who wander are actually lost Author: Chuck Wendig Have you ever known a sleepwalker? Or someone with night terrors? It’s a really interesting, and sometimes freaky, phenomenon. The way they look right through you, clearly are not awake, yet manage to navigate their environment is both amazing and unnerving. Now imagine that times 1000. That’s the stuff good, juicy, horror novel nightmares are made of. Welcome to the world of Wanderers, by Chuck Wendig. The story begins as such stories must – with the first walker. Vanessa is a teenager who simply walks out of her house one day. [...]

The Emperor  . . . and His Clothes Author: Amor Towles Everywhere you go – at least in the bookish circles I like to stalk – you hear about A Gentleman in Moscow. How erudite and yet beautifully simplistic it is; how it examines human nature against the ever shifting backdrop of history, especially a tumultuous time in Russian history (Bolsheviks anyone). How the narrator is ironically aristocratic, and therefore (supposedly) removed from everyman turmoil, only to explore through circumstances the true depths of love and connection (even meaning) through work. It’s touted as a telling reminiscent of the troubled gentry [...]