My Galaxy 42mm black “smartwatch” was a fun toy, but I took it back after two weeks. Best Buy made the refund easy, no questions asked. That’s one reason I bought it there. Also they had the best extended warranty, which … Continue reading
Reluctant Android is now available for pre-order as an ebook from Amazon and Smashwords. Pre-order means you can order it now for $3.99 and it will be delivered to you on September 1, 2018, the official launch date. Meanwhile you can … Continue reading
Careers have been built on mining the depths of The Great Gatsby, that most iconic of American novels. I recently read it for the third time to see what I could learn about the craft of writing. I decided to stay close … Continue reading
Finally, my new site featuring my psi-fi books is up. (www.psifibooks.com). That’s one brick in place for my nascent publishing empire. “Psi-fi” is pronounced the same as “sci-fi” but psi-fi focuses on psychological fiction in a technological world. How is human psychology … Continue reading
You don’t expect much drama from anthropologists in the jungle, but the members of this trio divide their angst between their simmering and barely acknowledged love triangle and their understanding of pre-industrial river people of New Guinea in the 1930’s. The … Continue reading
This is the autobiographical story of a holocaust survivor, Hungarian writer and Nobel Prize-winner, Imre Kertesz. To me, it is reminiscent of Primo Levi and even Victor Frankl. A boy of fourteen is snatched from Budapest by the Nazis and … Continue reading
This book is a good value at under $30 because it is actually three books. The first is for beginners, the second, for “intermediate” students of the blues, and the third for “mastering” blues guitar. I mean, it is literally … Continue reading
The title suggests a historical novel, for the Middle Passage was the sea route used by slavers going from West Africa to the Caribbean. The book does invoke important aspects of the slave trade, life at sea in the 1830’s, … Continue reading
I know I am in the minority for this much-beloved book. It just didn’t work for me. Set in India in the 1970’s and beyond, a brother and sister, twins in an affluent family, seek love in life, as we … Continue reading
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is famous for cribbing the plot of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The ‘king’ (Edgar’s father) is murdered by his brother Claude (Claudius) who then beds the father’s wife, Trudy (Gertrude). Edgar is the half-mad prince who accidentally … Continue reading