reviews

Lone Star Literature... Author:  Stephen Harrigan Other than a brief – and unpleasant – stop at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in the sprawling megalopolis known as Houston, I’ve never set foot in the great state of Texas.  No offense intended, but I must admit that the state’s never made it on my short – or long – list when it comes to future travel destinations, but that was before I came across the writing of Stephen Harrigan.  With his compelling collection of essays, entitled The Eye of the Mammoth, I’ve developed a nascent interest in the land of the Alamo, [...]

Dante the Riddler Author: Dan Brown Robert Langdon is back!  I haven’t personally seen our Harvard professor and expert in symbology (and history, art, architecture, the infrastructure of every city on the globe and pretty much whatever else is needed in the moment) since The Da Vinci Code, but I know he’s been around.  Inferno has Langdon waking up, dazed and drugged, in a hospital.  He has no idea how he got there, but it’s clear he’s been injured.  As the hospital staff fills him in on his dramatic appearance on their doorstep the previous night, he realizes that he’s [...]

A Godly Pretense Author: Terese Svoboda There’s something truly fun about an author who is willing to tell their story from the POV of God.  Not with hubris or preaching or science fiction, but with a real attempt to make you feel the presence of an actual being both unlike ourselves and so much like us that it understands our everything.  I like the leap of faith it takes to attempt such a story.  The product of that leap is Tin God by Terese Svoboda. Tin God tells two stories separated in time but held together by place.  The first [...]