Category: fiction
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Six Degrees of Michael Connelly
So I was up at my in-laws one time when my one mother-in-law (I have two) told me to look at the bags of in the guestroom where we always stayed. They had a few different rooms for visitors, but the one place where we stayed was the more conventional lodging.
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Ranked #6 on Amazon List!
White Fences Black Stars My new book, White Fences Black Stars, is now available, click here to read a sample or purchase on Amazon. Here are its current rankings:
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An excerpt from my new book…
White Fences Black Stars A historical fiction of the Negro Leagues Playing in CubaHeath was working out his considerable biceps with dumbbells made with coffee cans and sand. Gooch and Wilkinson were each jumping rope. It was late July in Chicago, and our trio was visiting a park that “colored people” were “allowed” to frequent.Heath…
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci My rating: 5 of 5 stars So there are a lot of books I’ve given 4-5 Stars to, but this book deserves ten stars. Baldacci has created a story that already existed, likely in many lives, but he unearthed it with great care, as Stephen…
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Stephen King Book Review
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I really enjoyed Stephen King’s book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, because it’s a good primer on becoming a better writer. But I also liked it because the author manages to be straightforward about the odds against a person not among the elite few literary geniuses…
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Getting Lucky
at the library today So I was reading the new David Baldacci, but I kept thinking it was a John Grisham; either way, it’s one of the better books I’ve read in a long while. The book is called A Calamity of Souls. I got halfway through the book when it became due. Since it…
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Travel Log
This Labor Day weekend, I went on my frequent trek to library, bookstore and lunch. As the last two were this time in a different location from my library, I mapped out the way to a different library, and it turned out to be on the way to the other two. I live in East…
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