Category: Fiction

The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O’Brian… with Reading Order List Master and Commander is the first book in Patrick O’Brian’s wonderful 21-book historical fiction series known as the “Aubrey-Maturin Series.” It is also the name of the adventure movie with Russell Crowe, although much of the action in the film was actually derived from books much farther …

Our book club loved Outlander by Diana Gabaldon… and then read the rest in the series, like I did (for the second time) I re-read Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander for our book club… and got so caught up in the story again, that I devoured the entire series – for the second time. Here’s my review of …

“A Discovery of Witches” – Book 1 of the All Souls Trilogy In A Discovery of Witches, author Deborah Harkness presents a plausible story of the relationships between the three (sub)species of witch, vampire and daemon… including their battles and their loves. I’m still wondering how I missed hearing about the book when it was released …

Life in Hugh Howey’s “silo” world Generations ago, the world suffered an upheaval of some kind. Everything about the “old world” has been forgotten, the memories obliterated. Your current world in an underground silo is all that exists… as far as you know. If you were born and lived your whole life in the lower third …

I read The Hunger Games trilogy from two perspectives: that of senior citizen… and also a 1960s hippie. I was impressed on both counts.   I may be a senior citizen now, but I’m also a counterculture hippie-type person from the 60s. So I read and then reviewed The Hunger Games trilogy from two perspectives. Old fogey me …