Bear or Wombat?
Point of View Once upon a time, when I lived in the American Southwest, I bought a copper wall-hanging in the shape of a Zuni […]
Month: November 2021
Literary Novel The Other
The Other, by David Guterson My life as a middle-class English teacher with a wife and two kids would have been poetically mundane if […]
Preventative / Preventive
Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: PREVENTATIVE / PREVENTIVE These […]
Cozy Mystery Gobble Gobble Murder
Gobble Gobble Murder, by Rachel Woods When his neighbor drops dead at a Thanksgiving barbecue, Beanie, a local Caribbean news reporter and eyewitness to what […]
Prescribe / Proscribe
Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: PRESCRIBE / PROSCRIBE These […]
Women’s Fiction The Ocean Between Us
The Ocean Between Us, by Susan Wiggs At forty, loyal Navy wife and mother-of-three Grace Bennett confronts her spreading figure and neglected dreams while […]
Pore / Pour
Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: PORE / POUR The […]
Literary War Novel The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien They carry guns. They carry grenades. They carry comic books and candy bars and a photo of the […]
Penultimate / Ultimate
Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: PENULTIMATE / ULTIMATE These […]
Crime Thriller Hunter’s Moon
Hunter’s Moon, by Randy Wayne White Florida biologist Doc Ford must revert to his well-trained secret agency persona when former U.S. president Kal Wilson […]