Halloween may be over but the advancing winter weather still makes a perfect backdrop for creepy reading. Last week I wrote about Killing Commendatore, a Japanese novel that was oddly unsettling, but ... Read More...
Gone So Long: A Novel
Gone So Long is both the title and the main situation in this new novel from Andre DuBus III. Daniel Ahearn is dying of cancer. He lives a quiet life alone in a small New England town and works ... Read More...
Quiet Summer Reading: The Garden Party
Summer is fun and light and for a lot of people, me included, my reading turns the same way. I want thrillers, chick-lit, humor. But just like anything else in life, too much of the same thing, even ... Read More...
The Stranger in the Woods
In case this news slipped by you, as it did me: In 2013 a man was apprehended at a children’s summer camp in northern Maine stealing food and supplies. Not particularly interesting except that when ... Read More...
The Broken Girls: A Novel
She made herself keep her gaze forward. To look back would be to tempt it. If she only looked forward, it would stay away. You know how sometimes there are places that feel wrong? ... Read More...