“A novel without a story must work very hard in other ways to be worth reading, and indeed to be read. Some of today’s antistory novels are too deliberately arcane. I think story is essential to the survival of the novel. A novel may be “difficult” but its story can...
Book Review 59: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Can a marriage be saved even if you are doing God's will and serving him to the best of your ability? That is the main question I took from reading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. It's an interesting question that the novel tries to answer. I'm glad...
Book Review 57: Paloma by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
How well do you know someone? If you find out some damaging information about someone you admired and respected would that change your view of that person? Is justice a zero-sum game? These questions get answered in a surprising fashion from Paloma: Book 5 of the...
Book Review 56: Buried Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
How do we view death? Do we respect how others view death? Those two questions give Buried Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch a thought-provoking theme in the fourth entry of this excellent sci-fi hybrid thriller series. Bones have been discovered beneath the Martian soil...
Book Review 55: Consequences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Miles Flint, a Retrieval Artist, was hired by a prominent couple on the moon colony of Armstrong to find their daughter who has become a Disappeared because of her political activities on several planets. Flint retrieved the daughter and reunited her with the...
Book Review 54: Stone of Fire by JF Penn
What happens you read a novel that combines an Indiana Jones style of adventure with a well-detailed and chronicled history of early Christianity and mixed with a female protagonist that is a combination of Lara...
Wisdom of Kammbia 3.35: The Book by a Popular Author That Surprised You
I have a question: What is the book by a popular or well-known author that surprised you in a good way? The Bag of Bones by Stephen King is my answer to this question. For years, I had refused to read Stephen King. I don't have a good reason why. I was a bookseller...
Book Review 53: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Sometimes you just know a book is going to be good after reading the first few pages. It is kind of like you know after an interview that you are going to get that job. Or if you are dating someone for the first time and you know that there is potential for a...
Book Review 52: Numb by John W. Otte
What if you are numb to pain and feelings for a good portion of your life? And all of sudden you begin to feel again and are not numb anymore? Those two questions were answered in Numb by John W. Otte. Numb is the story of Crusader, an assassin trained by the...
Wisdom of Kammbia 3.33: The Descendant of Destiny by Marion Hill
For those who have been following my blog, I briefly mentioned that yours truly is having his first novel published this year on June 4th. This is the actual cover and spine for the book. More to come as we get closer to the publication date. Also, this blog will move...