Adult Lit

Audiobook Reviews: December

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, narrated by LeVar Burton:  This book is hilarious. We seriously spent most of the book laughing at all of the crazy...

Mini Reviews: Non-fiction

Okay, I am so far behind on reviews at this point that I need a clean slate to get back in the game. So that means mini-reviews! I'm going to break it up into two posts:...

Book Review: Insatiable

The vamps were just too alluring. And their victims just never seemed to think they deserved better than the treatment they were given. It was almost as if they were afraid to...

Book Review: Diablerie

"The word can mean either mischievous or evil." Diablerie by Walter Mosley is an erotic thriller about recovered alcoholic Ben who has his past questioned by a woman he doesn't...

Book Review: On My Own Two Feet

It has been said of our society that, "We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge." This is particularly true in the realm of money. One of the fundamental premises...

Book Review: Pudd’nhead Wilson

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. A friend of mine said Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson was...

Book Review: The Assignment

Go where you are celebrated instead of where you are tolerated…When you are with the right people, the best comes out of you and the worst part of you will die. A few months ago,...

Book Review: The Wisdom of Your Dreams

We are all dreamers, whether or not we pay conscious attention to these mysterious, spontaneous interior experiences. As someone who has vivid and often bizarre dreams, I am...

Book Review: Women Food and God

I will be forever annoyed that there are no commas in that title. I’ve told this story for many more years than I lived it, but it only recently became clear to me that the...