The 24-Hour Wine Expert
From the title, it seems hard to believe that this slim volume can impart enough wine sense to place you as a “wine expert” in such a short time frame!...
Posted by Adult Services on February 14, 2017
The Arrival of Missives
Wedding science fiction with literary fiction in a post-WWI setting, The Arrival of Missives is a unique and enjoyable coming of age story. Shirley Fearn is seventeen and has it...
Posted by Kerry B. on January 25, 2017
The Flash: Season 2
***There are spoilers for the end of Flash Season 1 ahead*** The singularity that opened when Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash, was defeated, has been closed. It came at a...
A Man Called Ove
Ove doesn’t think he is ill-tempered, grumpy, or terse when conversing with other people, or dealing with a stray cat that thinks it should belong to him. However, when significant...
Posted by Adult Services on January 3, 2017
Company Town
New Arcadia is a city in transition. Perched atop a ruined oil rig in the Atlantic, the city has just been acquired by the wealthy industrialist Zacharias Lynch, who plans...
Posted by Kerry B. on December 20, 2016
The Aeronaut’s Windlass
Captain Francis Grimm, commander of the merchant ship Predator, is running out of options. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, one of the large, floating sanctuaries of humanity, he has taken...
Table Manners: How To Behave In The Modern World And Why Bother
Have you caught yourself texting or posting a photo while attending a dinner party when the meal is underway? Or informing your host (or hostess) of meal restrictions or allergies...
Posted by Adult Services on December 7, 2016
My Man Godfrey
I remember the night I first watched this movie years ago. I had come home and turned on the television, and My Man Godfrey was on a public station. I...
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusader
Do you miss a Batman that had a sense of humor, a Batman who does not growl when he talks, or a Batman who knew how to obey traffic laws?...
Cross Kill
Gary Soneji is dead. Or, at least, that’s what everyone thought. Alex Cross would know best, he was there when Soneji died. So when Soneji appears and shoots both Cross...
Posted by Alex C. on November 14, 2016
Behind Closed Doors
I often like to try new authors to see how their stories come to life from the brief summary given in a book release or promotion. When I read Behind Closed...
Posted by Adult Services on November 1, 2016
Slade House
Not everything—or everyone—is what it seems in this trippy treat of a horror novel by David Mitchell, also known for Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. True to form, Mitchell...
Posted by Kerry B. on October 25, 2016
The Wolf Among Us
Once upon a time, in a land called New York City, there was a secret community in the village of Brooklyn. This community was called Fabletown, and it was populated...
The Buried Giant
I think The Buried Giant can be described as a novel-length fairy tale, or maybe a better way to describe it is a novel featuring fairy tale elements? I’ll let...
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? is a fervent, feminist critique of Western economic thinking. Marçal argues that the ideas which animate popular understanding about the economy—the primacy of competition rather...
Posted by Kerry B. on October 11, 2016