This blog is a dead zone because I haven't been reading. I'm in a slump and it's a slump born out of work stress and a general f...

Nothing gets my goat more than when a book is criticized for not being what it never intended to be in the first place.  For example, when I...

I seem to be in an excessively cranky mood about... well ...everything at the moment. And instead of subjecting my cranky, irrational mood ...

"I'm sure you're wondering what a nice girl like me was doing left for dead in the trunk of a piece of shit Honda Civic out in ...

I love pulp mysteries. I'm not sure why. My father is of the generation that "grew up" on these - but he doesn't read fi...