Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline In the future of 2044, most of the world is in an energy crisis with rolling power outages for most folks and a dismal life in general with the exception of the few that have money. One thing that everyone does have is...
The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling I have read the Harry Potter series and enjoyed it greatly. It has been years since I read them so I don’t remember Rowling’s writing style to compare it her style in The Casual Vacancy. I know this book disappointed many people, but did...
Martian Time-Slip
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick Jack is a repairman who fled Earth to join the colony on Mars and hopefully has cured himself of his schizophrenia. There are many local businessmen that want to claim parts of Mars for themselves before the UN shows up to claim it,...
Dark Places
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Libby Day was only seven years old when her mother and two sisters were massacred by her fifteen-year-old brother, or at least that is what she thinks happened. Her testimony sent her brother to jail and her small farming community believed it was part of some satanic...
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler It’s hard to talk about this novel without giving too much away since a major piece of information is held back in the first part of the story. It does start in the middle, since Rosemary, a 22-year-old young...
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Anthony Horowitz, with the blessing of Doyle’s estate, takes on Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. An older Dr. Watson reflects back on one case that was too gruesome for him to write about in the past, so he has waited until after Holmes...
Time Out of Joint
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick Ragle Gumm wins a newspaper contest everyday and he makes a living off the prize money so it becomes his sole job in his small town in 1959. Then he starts to notice things are a bit off when he finds...
June Update on My Bookshelf
I have updated My Bookshelf for the books that I’m currently reading in June....
Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick Eight strangers touring a particle accelerator get hit with a ray beam and find themselves in an alternate reality that is close to their own world, but all the morality rules have changed. When they realize what is going on, they...
May Update for My Bookshelf
I have updated My Bookshelf with the books I’m currently reading: ...