Ghost Stories Through the Night ( A Book Review of Afraid: The Best Philippine Ghost Stories edited by Danton Remoto ) It was on a dreary afternoon on All Soul’s Day, November 2, just as dusk approaches, when I decided to … Continue reading
My First Affair with Hercule Poirot (A Book Review of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affairs at Styles) Written as an outcome of a bet in which “the reader would not be able to spot the criminal”, Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious … Continue reading
The Strain That Started It All (A Book Review of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain) Where others credit classic writers like Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, I forever owe my first real taste of science fiction to Michael Crichton … Continue reading
Flight of Fancy (A Book Review of William Pène du Bois’s The Twenty-One Balloons) After busting a literary heavy I noticed that from time to time there’s this feeling, an emerging need to clear the palate, to freshen up and … Continue reading
You Win Some, You Lose Some (A Book Review of Paper Money by Ken Follett) What links the lives of a ruthless gangster, a sneaky businessman, an adulterous minister, and a young journalist — each a stranger to another — … Continue reading
A Can of Humor and Warmth (A Book Review of Polly Horvath’s The Canning Season) Thirteen year old Ratchet Clark is a girl living in a windowless and grimy “sub-basement apartment” in Pensacola, Florida with her self-centered mom Henriette who … Continue reading
A Timeless Masterpiece (A Book Review of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine) The subject of time travel is common place today, with plenty of books, television shows, and movies using the process as a storytelling device, but back in … Continue reading
Love’s Another Drug (A Book Review of Kevin Brooks’s Candy) It’s hard to imagine life without Candy. Addiction is a word most of us are familiar with and all of us have his / her vices, fixes we hanker for … Continue reading
Of Chances We Miss and a Mother’s Undying Love (A Book Review of Mitch Albom’s For One More Day) Charley “Chick” Benetto is ready to give up everything up after hitting rock bottom in his life and decides to commit … Continue reading
Life Lessons from the Scrolls (A Book Review of Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World) The Greatest Salesman in the World is a self-help classic from best-selling author Og Mandino. It’s a tiny book interspersed with powerful principles, … Continue reading
Chasing After a Lost Masterpiece (A Book Review of Ken Follett’s The Modigliani Scandal) The Modigliani Scandal is a lighthearted early caper from internationally renowned master thriller Ken Follett. The plot concerns Dee Sleign, an art historian on the hunt … Continue reading
