Monthly Archives: April 2016

In Defense of Bookstores

Originally posted on Buried Under Books:
The passage of HB2 in North Carolina is causing a great deal of concern in many quarters, rightfully so because there’s a lot that’s wrong with it, but reactions have not always been well…

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The Girl From Home by Adam Mitzner

Oh,  my!  A new Adam Mitzner novel hit the stands (and the downloadables) on Tuesday and I snapped it up yesterday  (Thursday) and was finished last night -yup – one of those midnight oil thingies.   I read and very much enjoyed Mitzner’s two prior novels, A Conflict … Continue reading

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Saving Sophie by Ronald H. Balson

This story, the second in the Catherine and Liam series by Ronald Bolson,  opens with a guy making a very slick exit from the US via the Chicago airport.  The next thing we know some lawyers of an upscale investment company are searching for a … Continue reading

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The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber

To me this feels like it’s solidly in the best tradition of sci-fi –  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1931) or Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow from 1996. When Peter Leigh,  ex-addict but now happily married Christian minister of probably the finest kind, … Continue reading

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The Advocate’s Daughter by Anthony Franze

I finished this just after midnight last night so it’s the first book of April. Sean Serratt,  a high-power attorney and a short-list contender for a newly open seat on the Supreme Court  has some bad old secrets. They’re really old,  from … Continue reading

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