• There are some books in existence that are simply must-reads.  The World According to Garp is very much one of those books.  Irving has written [...]

  The World According to Garp by John Irving – A Book Review

  August 22, 2008
• I really looked forward to reading this collection of short stories.  I love well-crafted, gothic tales, and from what I’d heard, Oates, [...]

  Haunted: Tales Of the Grotesque by Joyce Carole Oates – A Book Review

  August 22, 2008
• John Updike’s Toward the End Of Time proved a bit of an enigma to me.  At times I thoroughly enjoyed it and at other times I seriously [...]

  Toward the End Of Time by John Updike – A Book Review

  August 22, 2008
• This collection of short stories by Stephen King encompasses all that is great about one of our most prolific and talented writers.  I’ve [...]

  Night Shift by Stephen King – A Book Review

  August 22, 2008

• This novel won the Pulitzer Prize, so it was obviously held in high esteem by those far wiser than myself.  And I have to admit that I enjoyed [...]

  The Shipping News by Annie Proulx – A Book Review

  August 22, 2008