I was drawn to this book because of the beautiful cover -- Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon.  It was a good fantasy adventure book that was easy...

What a great book.  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson has been written about many times.  It has been very popular.  It...

A good (not great) Twilight- type book is Lament by Maggie Stiefvater.  This is a book about fairies, not vampires, but still has some tens...

I finished P.D. James Death of an Expert Witness.  It took me a while.  It was a good book-- kind of a classic.  James gets rave reviews as ...

Moment of Truth, by Lisa Scottoline is a murder mystery about a father who admits to murdering his wife because he believes his daughter ac...

Two very different books to comment on.  First I read Wild Orchids,  by Jude Deveraux.  I wasn't really impressed.  The book started out...

I finished Cross Country,  by James Patterson.  As I've said before, I really like these books -- I find them exciting and interesting. ...

The first book today is Hail to the Chef,  by Julie Hyzy.  This is the second book in the White House Chef Mystery Series, and I really enjo...

Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey was on of the most sickeningly gory novels I've ever read.  A very good story, but I really had to put it...

OK, I've been stuck in a historical fiction rut.  However, all the recent books I've read have sort of meshed together nicely.   Mud...