An Election by John Scalzi

November 21, 2025

After reading John Scalzi’s Constituent Service, set in the Third District of an unnamed planet, I went back to read the short novella, An Election. In fact, it’s actually a short story more than a novella, but it’s amusing, as well as topical,...

What ARe You Reading?

November 20, 2025

I’m so glad I called my sister yesterday morning. I had failed to put last night’s play on my calendar. As she said, when she called to tell me she was leaving to pick me up, I would have been in my jammies. We went to see “Some Like It Hot.”...

Slight Mourning by Catherine Aird

November 19, 2025

The sixth book in Catherine Aird’s Calleshire Chronicles, Slight Mourning, was not one of my favorites. Despite one funny report about a regimental reunion at a hotel, this mystery was slow-paced, in fact, plodding. After a dinner party at his home, Bill Fent...

The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts

November 18, 2025

“Light kills dark.” Nora Roberts concludes her Lost Brides trilogy with The Seven Rings, the unforgettable story set in Poole’s Bay, Maine in a manor haunted for two hundred years by a mad witch who covets the house Arthur Poole built for his family...

Constituent Service by John Scalzi

November 17, 2025

Whoever did the cover art for John Scalzi’s Constituent Service did a wonderful job illustrating the various species that are in the book. I’m grateful for Jeff Meyerson who mentioned this amusing novella by Scalzi. Of course, his books always have serious...