Joining the Hard Case Crime book club was the best $6-a-month investment I made last year.  (It was also the only one I made, but I'm confident that if there'd been others, it would still be on...

I'm feeling a teensy bit paranormalled out, so I've decided to add more grown-up mysteries to my reading diet. When a young woman is brutally murdered and left at Merlin's door, Arthur is put in...

...you should start.

From the Wausau Daily Herald: The Wausau School Board voted 7-2 Monday to keep a book in the John Muir Middle School library after a parent asked that it be removed because of sexually explicit...

Man.  It was pretty fantastic, but it also kind of made me want to stab myself.

While I think that this blogger did a bit of reaching on some of the questions, there were enough easily answered with a big fat YES to creep me right the hell out. I mean, yeah.  It's pretty apparent even without the list, but somehow the...

TBRT #2 is almost ready to print and will ship next week.  Readers of TBRT #1 will be familiar with some of the names in the line up -- but there'll be plenty of new discoveries as well. Volume 1, Number 2 begins in high summer and ends with a...

Stephen King plots The Shining sequel. Stephen, I love you.  But I'm asking you.  Please.  FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.  LET IT BE.

I really, truly thought that the title of the book had just been changed.  And the cover art.  And the publisher.  And the author. But, no.  As if one Scarlet Letter sequel wasn't enough. This turn of events makes me want to punch myself in the...

The children's shortlist is: Solace of the Road by Siobhan DowdTroubadour by Mary HoffmanThe Ask and the Answer by Patrick NessGuantanamo Boy by Anna Perera I've read zero.  Solace of the Road is currently in my TBR pile, as is The Knife of...