GREAT READS

Many readers will know this author from his bestselling book and subsequent movie "The Horse Whisperer." I never read that book, but on a whim I recently re-read "The Loop" and remembered why I was so fond of it the first time. When I returned that...

Alex Garland's The Beach was not a something I would have read if I didn't know the premise before picking up the book.  This is the second review in a row where I am mentioning the cover art, so maybe I do judge books by their covers... and tit...

In Feed, M.T. Anderson takes a dim view of society's technological dependence, the corporate takeover of government, and consumerism.  This Sci-Fi book geared for young adults is set in America's future where nearly everyone gets a "chip" in the...

I picked up David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars around 1996, simply due to the cover art and the fact it had a gold sticker on it proclaiming it as a National Book Award winner.  I brought it home and put it in a pile of books to be read.&nb...

After being sent to Hell for eleven years by his circle of magician "friends," Stark manages to return to Los Angeles in Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim in a terminally bad mood, stronger than ever, and with only one thing on his mind: revenge.  I...

Like a young Bear Grylls of Man vs Wild fame, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is a survivor.  After a Cessna crash left him alone in the Canadian wilderness with little chance of rescue, Brian must learn to adapt.  Enduring bears, moose, wo...

Known for her bestselling fiction novels, Barbara Kingsolver is joined in this book by her husband and daughters to write a non-fiction account of their attempts of becoming locavores in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.  The authors move in...

There was excitement and a festive atmosphere in anticipation of the celestial light show the night the meteor was scheduled to hit the moon--until the impact knocks the moon to a closer orbit with the Earth.  The effects from the closer orbit a...

Those of us mourning the end of football season, and those of us considered to be "foodies," will enjoy this stylistic departure from John Grisham's lawyer-centric stories, Playing For Pizza.  If quarterback Rick Dockery, who delivered what was ...