A classic horror novel made even better. Literate, dark humor peppers this popular tale of 60s hippies that has been selling since first published in 1992. Greater depth and additional twists add to the fun in this new author’s edition as ill-fated friends making their way between two oceans create their own ocean of blood. Literate, dark humor peppers this popular tale of READ MORE…
Nan has had to leave her peaceful home above what used to be the Arctic Circle for something extraordinarily old-fashioned: a physical meeting with someone in, of all places, a city. If she doesn’t contract a fatal disease first, she might just choke to death on the Rococo holography currently choking Manhattan. And why hasn’t she heard anything from her best friend, Trix? Must READ MORE…
Thanks to stellar advances in longevity, Earth is overrun by Baby Boomers well into their hundreds. Social Security being the stuff of history books, subsequent generations must find some way to put all those Boomers to good use…challenging since few have minds that have survived along with their bodies.But the silver lining is that few can complain about what some of those uses READ MORE…
Gorgeous, and born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, Veronica Hamilton has never had to interrupt her dreamy sentimentality to question her cultural snobbery or even whether or not that diagnosis of Asperger’s was accurate. But that was before her fabulously wealthy CEO husband framed her for the murders he committed. Now she’s fleeing across READ MORE…
Fancy at least the concept of more serious reading, while you know damn well you’re not about to give up the comfortably compelling tropes of genre writing? Try Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. A profound examination of all the ways our memories contribute to our self-deception is deftly sugar-coated with a driving plot and cliff-hanger-ish mystery. It’s an exploration and utterly ruthless understanding of aging and rationalization that I haven’t found elsewhere. But be prepared to leave the comfort-zone romanticism with which you justify your own life…and to which you may never return.
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All of which seems appropriate as the snow rages outside, and I wonder…even when vaccinated…if endemic COVID will ever let us return to what we at least thought was normal. But, hopefully, yours is a reasonably functional, snug place to “shelter in place” and contemplate at leisure the past, present, and future mysteries of it all.
