Buzz Bernard’s Cascadia tells a story about The Really Big One—the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami that may likely devastate Oregon’s north coast. The subduction rips along the 700-mile area where the Juan de Fuca Plate dives [...]
Phillip Margolin’s Violent Crimes, is a legal drama that unfolds at a brisk pace. While it doesn’t break any new ground, pages turn quickly and the story draws the reader a the tale of violent betrayal as it follows defense attorney Amanda [...]
Christopher Moore loves San Francisco. That’s obvious in the way he includes the city as a virtual character in many of his novels. Secondhand Souls is one of those novels. His descriptions, however, are not typical of a traditional love story. [...]
Oliver Sacks is an eminent physician, a neurologist of uncanny intuition. He has also become an eminent writer whose craft has grown and matured across the decades and the dozen books he has produced. In addition to being a New York Times [...]
Brian Doyle’s novel Martin Marten unfolds on the southwest shoulder of Mt. Hood in the Oregon Cascades. Doyle never mentions the name Hood: he calls it by what the ancient Multnomah tribe knew it as: Wy’east. The land and its occupants have [...]
Alex Sheremet’s Woody Allen: Reel to Real is a book for Woody Allen fans, certainly, but it is also a book for people who love films and filmmaking. It is a chronology – with a few exceptions – of each Woody Allen film from What’s [...]
Chumbley Pond is an ambitious novel, weaving several plot threads into a cohesive whole. It is not a typical mystery, but there is plenty of mystery to unravel. We follow Trey Chumbley, initially perceived as a stereotypical, spoiled, rich brat; [...]
Not Without My Father is an ambitious adventure memoir. It is funny, poignant, agonizing, raunchy, and delightfully “out there.” Andra Watkins shows her mettle throughout the book and is not afraid to show her weakness, her doubt, [...]
Imagination Along the Natchez Trace By Andra Watkins Word Hermit Press, $11.99, 305 pages To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis is a genre-busting novel encompassing Historical Adventure, Young Adult, Thriller, Fantasy, and [...]
Brian Doyle’s latest, The Plover, is an intimate read. Doyle tells us very little about the unforgettable characters he craftily weaves through our experience, but he shows us everything. Declan O Donnell, owner and captain of the intrepid [...]
A Good Start By E.J. Simon iUniverse, $21.95, 377 pages E.J. Simon has written a fascinating book. The story almost breaks new ground. It’s a good twist on Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress in that a computer wakes up and exhibits a [...]
A Magical Mystery Tour By Matthew Krajewski Balboa Press, 171 pages, $14.99 It takes courage to remain true to what you know is true, especially when conventional thought is not in your corner. It takes more courage to write a [...]
