Several local writers have published books recently. “Making the Reata” (Silver Spur Publishing), a historical novel by Ojai author Terry Tallent, is set in Ventura County during the 1830s and features a Chumash elder, an orphan and a Franciscan. Order at Amazon.com or CreateSpace.com ($15). “Aging Is a Journey of Changes” (Virtual Bookworm Publishers) by [...]
What I like most about Joe Casey & Tom Scioli’s Godland is just how unbelievably happy it is to be a comic book. I remember reading the first trade years ago and not really getting it. The Kirby influence put me off, I think, and I wasn’t quite a full-fledged member of the Joe Casey [...]
A new book on Ariel Sharon, written by his son, Gilad, will appear in English and Hebrew tomorrow. According to a story in Ha’Aretz, Gilad Sharon has been working on the book, titled Sharon: The Life of a Leader, for the past four and a half years. Most incredibly, Gilad told The New York Times [...]
When I was growing up, Sweden was still a country where people darned their socks. I first read this 1997 novel (the sixth in Henning Mankells Inspector Wallander series) in 2004, and saw the television adaptation starring Kenneth Branagh last year. So the general outline was familiar; I even knew who the murderer was going [...]
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “77 Shadow Street” by Dean Koontz (Bantam) 2. “Death Comes to Pemberley” by P.D. James (Knopf) 3. “11/22/63″ by Stephen King (Scribner) 4. “Locked On” by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam) 5. “Kill Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 6. “The Litigators” by John Grisham (Doubleday)”Death Comes to Pemberley” by [...]