Weighing Shadows Lisa Goldstein Night Shade Books Release Date: November 3, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59780-840-8 In Weighing Shadows, we meet Ann Decker, a down on her luck former foster kid working in a dead end job at rinky-dink Sam’s Computer Solutions. Ann’s fortunes seem to change, however, when she is recruited – supposedly for her computer [….]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot David Shafer Little, Brown and Company Release Date: August 5, 2014 Awfully clever of David Shafer to title his debut novel about international information espionage Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; more than once I found myself exclaiming, “WTF?” Not in an exasperated, obscene way, but more in a “okay, what just happened here?” way. [….]
Every time I hear someone keening about the threat that some new technology, gadget, application, movement or fad poses to another long established tradition, product or process, I think of something that the great actor and pop culture philosopher Stephen Fry said (via Twitter, no doubt): “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” He’s [….]
