reviews

Inconceivable! Author:  William Goldman A swashbuckling pirate, a beautiful princess, a horrible dungeon, plenty of magic and eternal true love.  Many of the essential ingredients for an engaging romp in a land of fantasy are included to create a story that’s typically placed in the teen fiction genre.  But The Princess Bride is much more than a children’s fairy tale.  It’s a remarkably convoluted, light-hearted romantic novel that readers of all ages are sure to find both amusing and charming. First published in 1973 by real-life American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman, the book is an entirely fictional adaptation of [...]

From Sea to Land and Back Again... Author:  Carl Zimmer The theory of evolution has one small problem.  It’s an indisputable fact that every mother – be she fly, frog or flamingo – gives birth to offspring of the same species.  Unfortunately, this reality presents quite a challenge when it comes to explaining how new species arise over time.  While it seems plausible that almost undetectable changes from generation to generation, when multiplied over millennia, might result in a longer snout or stronger talons, illuminating the really big transitions in the tree of life is a much thornier proposition.  How [...]

Flipped Off Author: C. Dennis Moore I can take quite a lot when it comes to reading horror.  Not watching it, mind you, only reading it.  I’m really something of an aficionado of what I affectionately call The Bloody Knife – you know the books, the ones with murder, mayhem, some supernatural bits and surprisingly often a bloody knife on the cover.  But if you want to scare me, write about a haunting.  I tend to read late at night, which, let’s face it, is prime ghost time.  If you don’t like books that ooze creeping terror disrupting your sleep, [...]