reviews

A Plot Ceases to Appear Author: Elizabeth Brundage Touted as a chilling psychological thriller, tantalizingly presented as one of the March selections for Book of the Month, Judge Leigh Haber had my full attention (and monthly selection) when she wrote that readers should select All Things Cease to Appear “If you crave a creepy literary thriller you can easily envision on the big screen, turn off all the lights, settle into a comfy chair near a blazing fire, and meet the eerie protagonists of this sexy, chilling, work of fiction.” All Things Cease to Appear delved into complicated relationships, sexual intrigue, and all [...]

An American Classic Combining Action/Adventure and Discourses on Race Relations Author: James Fenimore Cooper Set in the American frontier, during the bloody birth of a country and the guerrilla warfare of the French and Indian Wars (i.e. the Seven Years War), James Fenimore Cooper crafts an America action/adventure classic. Second in the Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans is a stand-alone novel featuring the classic brave adventurer/woodsman versus a cunning enemy with hostages at stake. Magua, a Huron Indian chief outcast for drunkenness, seeks vengeance against Colonel Munro by turning tail, going to the French, and attempting to kidnap the Colonel’s two [...]

The story within us... Author:  Siddhartha Mukherjee It may well be the greatest science saga ever told.  Featuring a cast of millions – viruses, bacteria, fruit flies, pea plants, worms, rats, inquisitive humans and countless others – the story of the genetic code is an odyssey of billions of years that has been elucidated over the past couple centuries.  There may be no one more capable of revealing the full wonder of the story than Siddhartha Mukherjee – oncologist, writer and sage investigator extraordinaire.  In The Gene he tells of humankinds continued efforts to unweave the mysteries of life, for [...]