An Intellectual Mediocrity

 I read John Steinbeck's 1947 novel The Wayward Bus several months ago and absolutely loved it. But even though loving it I have found i...

Cover of the first hardback edition.  It is funny how things in life transpire isn't it?? I had no longer finished John Wyndam's ...

 The problem that faces Alice Sebold's debut novel The Lovely Bones is that, as you all know, Peter Jackson adapted it to film......and ...

 I first read E. M. Nathanson's classic novel The Dirty Dozen way back in 1989 as a snot nosed 18-19 year old. The same copy then sat a...

 It is said ' never judge a book by it's cover '. And yet for once I disagree, because the cover to  The Sad Tale of the Brother...

 Ah The Crusades. Just how controversial are they even today, 1000 years after the last Crusaders were booted out off their last enclave, Ac...

 When I started this blog I fully intended to keep it as strictly fiction based. As a rule I read more non-fiction than fiction and I actual...