While all the authors from this anthology may not be from New England, the location is of interest. Akashic Books regularly publishes anthologies with a location theme and their recent release has a New England locale in mind. Check out New Haven Noir! Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with…
I tore through Aveyard’s third (but not final) book in the Red Queen series. These books have some addictive qualities: they’re easy to read, and they’re really, really hard to put down. Just one more chapter and I swear I’ll call it a night – two hours later at 3 am, you say the same thing….
Glass Sword is the second book in Victoria Aveyard’s wildly popular Red Queen series. In this young adult high fantasy, the world is divided by blood type: red versus silver. The Silvers maintain control with their varying paranormal abilities while the Reds, normal humans, serve and die underneath them. But a rebellion is growing with…
Haruki Murakami is an international bestselling author from Japan with a number of massively popular books to his name. A few years back, I read his 1Q84 omnibus and became an instant fan. It was a slipstream mix of literary and surreal fantasy that captivated my imagination. Kafka on the Shore dwells in the same vein of literary…
Another hyped-up series! How can I resist? I’ve been looking to get to this series for a while and now that the third book is out, I went ahead and got all three for a back-to-back reading. Red Queen has been blowing up GoodReads since its release in 2015 and judging from the sheer volume…
When this book was picked for book club, I was skeptical. It just isn’t something I would pick up on my own. Judging from the description, I assumed this book would be filled with extreme right-wing political rhetoric. I’m more of a middle-of-the-road person, with the exception of my feminist leanings, and extreme point of…
I opted for D’mok Revival after reading an enticing blurb on this hardcore science fiction odyssey, not realizing that it was part of a bigger package. D’mok Revival is the fourth book in the New Eden series but thankfully, it reads as a standalone. Because I was jumping into the story line several books in,…
Though it’s a potentially lucrative enterprise, the reality of independent consulting seldom matches the dream. Most solo consultants and boutique consulting firms are perpetually within six months of bankruptcy due to the sputtering unreliability of their new business engines. The problem, according to international consulting expert David A. Fields, is twofold: 1) lack of a…
I love reading indie books and I strive to put one in my reading rotation which involves: one standalone of my choice a series selection book club #1 choice book club #2 choice a classic an indie selected from the hundreds of requests received each month That’s right – I get hundreds of requests – but I can…
Lawrence Dorfman is a local Connecticut author. From the author of the bestselling Snark series comes the premiere guide to satire, sneering, jeering, and mockery in their finest forms. A surviving knight of many a verbal joust, Larry Dorfman has become an expert at backhanded sass and cathartic banter. Featuring life lessons from the master…