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The Finest Generation – A review of the novel ‘Dobyns Chronicles’ “It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams” - Don DeLillo Author Shirley McLain’s latest novel ‘Dobyns Chronicles’ is a historical fiction loosely based on the life and times of her grandfather...

A Deadly Pathogen – A review of the novel ‘Antidote’ “There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for” - Albert Camus Even though John Lonergan’s novel ‘Antidote: Clandestine Warfare In Modern Russia’ is set in a futuristic world, it deals with a threat that is very contemporary...

“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn” - Ruth Beechick There are a lot of issues and problems in this world of ours that manage to grab our attention, they ignite the extremist and arm-chair activists in us to act and do something about it. But more...

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well” – Alexander the Great Any kid growing up spends the longest hours of his young life outside his own home in a school. So it’s no wonder schools are often referred to as second homes and teachers as sort of parental...

“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars” - Richard Evans Prolific science fiction author Gary Caplan’s novel ‘Talcon Star City’ is the sequel to the 2009 release ‘The Phoenix Rising’. Painting the same vast expanse of space and its futuristic civilizations as revealed...

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you” - Stephanie Perkins Author Josefina Gutierrez’s novel The Shadow of Loss narrates the story of a young girl who is coming to grips with her life after the sudden loss of a loved one. Evelyn Gonzalez has had to...

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light” - Helen Keller Author Inge-Lise Goss’s novel ‘The Cost of Crude’ takes place in Texas and is set in the backdrop of a car crash of an oil & gas company employee. Gwynn Reznick, the co-worker and friend of Julie, doesn’t...

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes” - Arthur Conan Doyle All of us are connected to each other in one way or another, through pain and pleasure, through life and death and through the rational and the unexplainable, there’s a link that joins our lives...

Renaissance man – A review of the book ‘Paths Less Travelled’ “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” - Rumi Everyday life throws many options at us; it gives us the choice to be the master of our fate. But in spite of such a tempting offer very seldom do men try to...

Warrior Poet – A review of the novel ‘Tears of a Heart’ “Patience is the virtue that forges great men” - Chris Vincent Something that’s common and significant amongst all life forms in this world is that period when you shed all the bonds that tie you to your childhood and stand within the...

All in the family – A review of the novel ‘Harrington Manor’ “It’s miraculous how the shallow can injure in such a profound way” - Anna Jae A family is in many ways reminiscent of a fruit bearing tree, you have the strong trunk that is the matriarch or patriarch supporting the weight of many...

All that glitters – A review of the novel ‘Comanche Gold’ “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Beyond the romanticized notions of the old west and the falsely propagated ideals of the real man, there...

The Rage Countdown – A review of the novel ‘Beneath Scarlett Valley’ “Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find” - Libba Bray Even though we may not like to acknowledge it, we all walk around hiding behind a mask. That layer of curtain between us and others is often used to...

A Soul Story – A review of the novel ‘Locker Rooms’ “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean” - David Searls Death encompasses us all, death doesn’t discriminate, it doesn’t care if you are a man or a woman, young or old, rich or poor and more...

As reel as it gets – A review of the novel ‘Tossed Off the Edge’ “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” - Oscar Wilde Hollywood, that seemingly far away magical land, the land of opportunities, the land of many dreams has seen the dreams of many fulfilled but for...

Ties that bind us – A review of the novel ‘The Lion Trees’ “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans” - John Lennon As I finished reading the novel which fully deserves that loosely and widely used epithet ‘magnum opus’, I realized that The Lion Trees was much more than what...

Last Man Standing – A review of the novel ‘South of Good’ “Adventure is not outside man; it is within” - George Eliot Author Randall Reneau’s latest novel ‘South of Good’ is the first in a series of Hardin Steel books with its titular protagonist Hardin Steel. Stainless to those close to him...

Within your grasp – A review of the book ‘The Everyday Space Traveler’ “Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased” - John Steinbeck From staying in caves surrounded by dim lit fireflies to staying in penthouses surrounded by light emitting diodes, if there is one...

The Kid I Knew – A review of the novel ‘Lone Horseman’ “Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both” - Eleanor Roosevelt Long before the age of reason, men looked up at the sky through their telescopes in an attempt to find intelligent life and other worlds in the universe, all...

Sword of Order – A review of the novel ‘Advent of Darkness’ “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions” - Albert Einstein Storytelling is a much envied skill, a story well told can make us laugh and weep, we become one with the characters and it can change even...