His Dark Materials

I had to read them, didn’t I? After all, I do yammer on about being an atheist, so obviously that meant I would have to read Philip Pullman’s trilogy. It’s a bedtime story for atheists everywhere! Right?Well, no, not so much.Mr. Pullman may well be...

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

If ever you are in the mood to take a literary punch to the solar plexus, you might give Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road a try. I mean that in the best possible way. I just finished it in a thirty-six hour reading marathon, and I can’t...

The Wheel of Time turns…

…and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. The wind...

Master of Verona

I posted this review on Amazon.com, but I thought I’d reprint it here because I’d like to get the word out about this book. David Blixt was the fight director for the stage version of A Clockwork Orange I was in just before I got married. He’s a cool...