The Dead Lands Benjamin Percy Grand Central Publishing Release Date: April 14, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4555-2824-0 When author Stephen King endorses a newly released book with, “Good God, what a tale. Don’t miss it,” a reader has a pretty good indication that they’re in for a ride. He was right. Benjamin […]
Leaving Time Jodi Picoult Ballantine Books Release Date: October 14, 2014 ISBN 978-0-345-54492-6 Jodi Picoult is one of our greatest storytellers. She is able to conjure up characters that not only feel real, but who move about in their scripted days as though they were real, rather than some kind […]
Megan: Bread Crumbs for the Nasties, Book One Steven Novak Quiet Corner Press Release Date: August 5, 2013 This time of year is full of calm and quiet. Silent nights, peace and good will. Sometimes, though, you just get a hankering for a good, post apocalyptic horror story, though, right? […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.