Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Nine Lives - Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum (2010) - There is no other city in the United States like New Orleans. It has gone its own way for centuries, and the rest of the nation knows little about it. In 1965, Hurricane Betsy changed New Orleans. Forty years... Continue Reading →
Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig (2015) - With the lightest touch of skin on skin, Miriam Black will know the where, when, and how of your death. She will know in gruesome, soul-searing detail. And there is nothing she can do to change the vision. Three men will discover her “gift”, two may be doorways to... Continue Reading →
Don’t Cry, Tai Lake by Qiu Xiaolong (2012) - Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police is sent to a resort reserved for higher levels cadres in China. The compound is in a town he visited as a child and has changed as much as he has. During his stay, Inspector Chen meets a... Continue Reading →
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem (2020) - When the fundamental forces in our lives stop-electricity, electronics, cars, guns, airplanes, telephones, what happens? There’s no cataclysm, just “The Arrest”, and then life goes on. But the world that Journeyman knew as a writer in Hollywood is gone. Eventually, he makes his way to his sister’s organic... Continue Reading →
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (2011) - Being an independent contract prospector is the perfect job for Jack Holloway. It’s a job he can do alone. An exploratory explosion reveals a massive load of the planet’s most marketable jewel, sunstones. It means never working again. Until a small, furry native life form wanders into his... Continue Reading →
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020) - In the Midnight Library, you will find all the books of all the other lives you might have lived. And then go live them. Nora Seed arrives there, in this place between Life and Death, and sees the chance to change the misery and disappointment of her... Continue Reading →
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (2020) - Earth Zero has discovered how to traverse between worlds. Cara is valued as a traverser because her doppelgangers are dead on most of the worlds known. If you arrive in a world where the other you is still alive, your death will be kind of quick... Continue Reading →
This was a TERRIBLE year for book reviews. I produced a grand total of 17. Which is awful. There's a reason for it. It was a TERRIBLE year for reading. For the first time in my life, I didn't feel like picking up a book. There were several times I had to force myself to... Continue Reading →
The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1947) - Kino, his wife Juana and their infant son Coyotito are not rich. But thier life is filled with love and contentment. Kino is a pearl diver in Baja California Sur. One day a scorpion falls into the child's bed and stings him. The local doctor won't do anything... Continue Reading →
The Guest List by Lucy Foley (2020) - A high-profile wedding brings disappointments, secrets, and death to a beautiful island off the coast of Ireland. Will it be “happily ever after” or will someone else die? Here’s the quick way to think of this book. Update F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby” characters to the 21st... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 