Sonny's Castle Dangerous

Today's news of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela sent me rushing to my search engine. How many times has the USA done such a thing in ...

J ust noticed this header on the U.S. Department of the Treasury "Resource Center" web page: " President Donald J. Trump has ...

I read this entire book on a 7-hour airline flight. Squeezed into a bulkhead seat in tourist class, it was a way to pass the time.  I'm ...

There's disturbing news in today's Associated Press feed:  Trump say's he's firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook, opening new front...

by Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney   Weaver of life, let me look and see  The pattern of my life gone by shown on your tapestry.   Just f...

Published in 1939, “Dividend On Death” introduces private investigator Mike Shayne, who later appeared in some 70-plus novels written under ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter died recently. This quote from his AP obituary caught my eye:  "What I worry about is that w...

This was a terrific read. I'll definitely seek out more of this author's work. This one is a complex mystery set in the Adirondack M...

This is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike crime fiction series. It has an absorbing plot, believable characters, and well-written dialo...

"Witch Wood," one of three novels contained in this volume, takes place in Scotland during the Anglo-Scottish War of 1650-1652. F...

This tune, a big hit for The Hollies, fascinated me back in 1972. I loved  the two-guitar break halfway through, but the lyrics puzzled me -...

I read Tarkington's  Penrod  novels when I was a young lad, but I never got around to reading Seventeen . Perhaps that was because I was...

I don't dare to put this on my other social media platforms, but I must speak out, if only to vent my concern. Having read the opinion o...

In terms of reader enjoyment and elegant prose, I'd give The Ferryman my highest rating. I congratulate the author on producing another...

My father, born in 1930, was an avid reader of fiction about World War II. Too young to participate in the war himself, I suppose this was h...

I don't dare post this on Facebook, because it will infuriate a certain percentage of people and lead to a series of messy, exhausting o...

I asked Nancy that question recently. Her response: "If God doesn't exist, then how did we get here?" That's a useful way ...

This English actress is one of the reasons I like the "Carry On" films from Ealing Studios. Who could forget her in "Carry O...

  My rating: 2 of 5 stars Every so often, I read a book simply because it has been on The New York Times bestseller list for a long time...

My cold or Covid or whatever it is has turned into a deep cough that is, in clinical terms, “productive.” I had a teleconference appointment...