reviews

Letting the Bones Out of the Bag Author: Stephen King Calling something “average” really doesn’t sound like a compliment.  But it depends on what that thing is and who produced it.  When the item in question is a novel and the author is Stephen King, well, then “average” is really pretty damn good.  Average for him is hitting it out of the park for most authors.  So without intending to damn with faint praise, I would definitely call 1998’s Bag of Bones an average Stephen King novel. Main character Mike Noonan is a not-quite-bestselling author of popular fiction.  He and [...]

Kingsolver's Compelling Congo Author: Barbara Kingsolver My lifelong obsession with all things relating to Africa in general and the ferocious beauty of dense Congolese jungles in specific compelled me to give The Poisonwood Bible a try when I ran into the audiobook edition during a caffeine induced peruse of the local library.  I, like everyone else in the universe, have heard this book mentioned over the years and although curious, I usually avoided it because of the negative connotations I assumed it would have toward Christianity. This time, however, my love of Congo and current work on two of my [...]