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  • A recipe for trouble

    Paul O’Connor takes a look at a memoir from someone who’s seen in person how Vladimir Putin operates and what he’s trying to achieve. The author puts what’s happening in the U.S. now into troubling perspective.. Reviewed by Paul T. O’Connor. MIDNIGHT IN MOSCOW: A MEMOIR FROM THE FRONT LINES OF RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST THE…

    March 14, 2025
  • A cat, books, a story … need we say more?

    Need a change of pace? Bob Moyer reviews a novel that is probably unlike anything you’ve read in a long time. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS. By Sosuke Natsukawa. Translated by Louise Heal Kawai. Harpervia. 208 pages.  $15.19, paperback. A cat. Books. What more do you want you want? Well,…

    February 28, 2025
  • Good story, great writing

    Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer BEEN WRONG SO LONG IT FEELS LIKE RIGHT: A King Oliver Novel.  By Walter Mosley. Mulholland Books. 336 pages. $29. “You been wrong so long it feels like right to you.” That’s just one of the great sentences in book three of Walter Mosley’s Joe King Oliver series, in which…

    February 20, 2025
  • The personal, and the political

    Bob Moyer says this accomplished new novel by Bernhard Schlink tells us a lot about modern-day Germany and the new-Nazi movement. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer THE GRANDDAUGHTER. By Bernhard Schlink. HarperVia. 336 pages. $28.99 Bernhard Schlink gave us one of the most accomplished novels of the 20th century, capturing the zeitgeist of post-war Germany.…

    February 15, 2025
  • A good story, and some pointers too

    Do you need some really entertaining reading – escape reading, in more ways than one? Bob Moyer offers a review of a book he thinks you’ll find a good distraction in these troubled times. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer HERO. By Thomas Perry. Mysterious Press. 277 pages. $27.95 $27.95 Thomas Perry gives the reader not…

    January 24, 2025
  • The dancing woman speaks to us all

    Reviewed by Linda C. Brinson DANCING WOMAN. By Elaine Neill Orr. Blair/Carolina Wren Press. 291 pages. $28.95, hardcover. Elaine Neill Orr is a gifted writer whose works are inspired and enriched by her creative temperament and her unusual perspective on the world. In her third novel, Dancing Woman, she is perhaps at the height of…

    January 21, 2025
  • The pain, the horror – and the love

    One of the lesser-known atrocities committed by the Nazis is central to a new novel that caught Bob Moyer’s attention. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer SUNFLOWER HOUSE. By Adriana Allegri. St. Martin’s Press. 336 pages. $29. Atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Third Reich have been thoroughly documented, examined and commented upon. It is surprising…

    January 13, 2025
  • War is hell, and it has lessons for us

    Paul O’Connor takes a look at what he considers an  outstanding novel,  set during  the war that turned Yugoslavia into a hell on earth in 1992. Reviewed by Paul T. O’Connor. BLACK BUTTERFLIES. By Priscilla Morris. Alfred A. Knopf. 278 pages, $28, hardcover. For those old enough to remember the 1984 Winter Olympics, the thought…

    January 5, 2025
  • Bending the rules – for justice

    Bob Moyer starts our reading year off right with a review of the new novel from one of his (many) favorite authors. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer THE WAITING. By Michael Connelly. Little, Brown. 403 pages. $30. Buy two, get one free That’s what happens when you get the latest Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch…

    January 2, 2025
  • Bruno, chief of police, is at it again

    Bob Moyer reviews the latest in a much loved series rich in with French history, culture, food and, oh yes, crime. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer. A GRAVE IN THE WOODS. By Martin Walker. Knopf. 283 page. $29. The past is never past; it is always present. In this charming, slightly addictive (to some) series,…

    December 19, 2024
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