Outside A Dog

Ender In Exile is billed as a ‘direct sequel’ to Ender’s Game.  Never mind that it was written 25 years after EG.  Card has revisited the EG world numerous times since the original, and it almost seems as if Ender is nothing but a cash cow for him at this point.  Not many authors can [...]

This weekend, I also finished Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg, a story about three sisters doing their best to survive being left at home during World War II. Kitty, the eldest, writes to her steady boyfriend, Julian, while her sister Louise writes to Julian’s best friend Michael, who proposed just as he [...]

Over the weekend I read Zoe Lucky and the Green Gables Mystery by M. Carol Coffey. It’s a sweet little young adult story in which our heroine, Zoe, pieces together the clues in order to catch a persistent — and dangerous — burglar.
Zoe and her mom have moved to Pittsburgh after Zoe’s father, a [...]

Every so often I come across books like Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson that make me wish I was back in school while reading it so that I could have that “Aha!” moment when someone explains everything that I’m obviously missing. Don’t get me wrong, this is a beautifully written book, but maybe I just [...]

I picked up copy of Women Of The Night by Martin Greenberg on a recent excursion to my local B&N.  At first, it only received a cursury passing glance.  As I made my rounds through the sci-fi / fantasy section, I thought about it a little more.  ‘Women of the night’ could mean either prostitutes [...]