• Listing Vetted: Polite Society — fairly solid

    • July 20th, 2010
    In 1756, young adults from the elite and servant classes clash as they learn to live with each other despite lies, secrets, and dangerous situations.  Read More →

  • Listing Vetted: Sally Carter — fairly solid

    • July 9th, 2010
    Eelsvale: Population 1,355. Magic: Some. Sally Carter writes the fiction column in The Eelsvale Pages, but is a little low on weekly originality. Then she meets Detective Hood, recently turned freelance (reasons unknown).  Read More →

  • Listing Vetted: The Alarna Affair — solid

    • June 29th, 2010
    Set in the Victorian era of another world, The Alarna Affair introduces a unique family of archaeologists and their friends.  Read More →

  • Listing Vetted: Swords and Sigils — solid

    • June 19th, 2010
    Melkeen is a prodigy, a young Wizard with incredible magikal abilities.  Read More →

  • Listing Vetted: Swords and Sigils — fairly solid

    • May 4th, 2010
    Melkeen is a prodigy, a young Wizard with incredible magikal abilities.  Read More →

  • THE MAPPING OF LOVE AND DEATH by Jacqueline Winspear

    • April 4th, 2010
    Book Quote: “She was thinking about lies. About the many times in the course of her work she had been lied to. It was a hazard of her occupation. She rarely missed a lie, seldom overlooked the sense of doubt that assailed her when she had been offered less than the truth. Indeed, she thought it was the presence of doubt—rather than certainty, perhaps—that led to …  Read More →

  • Listing Vetted: Howl — fairly solid

    • March 29th, 2010
    From the same universe as Dead Boyfriend, Howl is the story of hunter Eric St. John, a straight guy who suddenly finds himself with an unexpected, yet undeniable attraction to a mysterious man named Adam. Eric can’t explain why it seems impossible to resist his body’s impulse to submit so completely to the other man.  Read More →

  • Listing Vetted: Shadow Unit — fairly solid

    • March 6th, 2010
    Shadow Unit is an action-adventure police procedural with fantasy elements.  Read More →

  • THE BOY WHO COULDN’T SLEEP by DC Pierson

    • February 6th, 2010
    Book Quote: ” A thousand cartoons and TV shows and teen movies would lead you to believe that when you’re drawing something at your desk in school, a pretty girl is going to say ‘What are you drawing?’ and you’ll tell her and she’ll go ‘That’s neat’ and your artistry will reveal to her the secret sensitivity in your soul and she’ll leave her football-player boyfriend for you. These cartoons and TV shows and teen movies... 

  • Listing Vetted: The Urban 30 — fairly solid

    • January 6th, 2010
    The Urban 30 captures the lives of several heroes, on and off the clock of being super.  Read More →

  • UNFINISHED DESIRES by Gail Godwin

    • January 4th, 2010
    Book Quote: “The problem of discerning mischief from good, thought Mother Malloy (closing her eyes against the flickering sunlight and leaning back against the Red Nun) was that, very often, the two grew together. Our Lord knew this: His parable of the wheat and the tares. If you ripped out the menacing weed prematurely, you risked killing the tiny seedlings …  Read More →

  • WITTGENSTEIN’S NEPHEW by Thomas Bernhard

    • December 21st, 2009
    Book Quote: “Some Dutchman sitting by the window in a loud yellow pullover, essentially picking pellets of snot from his nose and believing himself unobserved, would at once inspire a blanket condemnation of everything pertaining to the Netherlands, which we suddenly felt we detested all our lives.” Book Review: Review by Bonnie Brody (DEC 21, 2009) Thomas Bernhard is a wonderful wordsmith. He weaves his story in riffs like jazz... 
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