New Wilderness, New Exotic Creatures One thing about moving to the Southwest, there sure are some amazing and gnarly looking bugs out here. The desert is not brown and dead like I imagined it would be before moving here. It's teeming with plants and animals, most of which...
Snow Wolf by Glenn Meade - A Fresh Voice in Post-War II Cold War Thrillers It's been awhile since I've found a juicy book that pulled me right into the tense and frightening Cold World era of the 1950s. As an avid reader of both...
Did Ayn Rand and George Orwell Predict the Future? I've been re-reading some of the classic fiction that captivated me when I was a teenager. We the Living by Ayn Rand, a novel about one woman's attempt to keep her identity in the new Soviet Union. I'd...
Author Barbara Demick Exposes The Horror of Daily Life in North Korea ~ Read Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick and you realize that life in Orwell’s book 1984 can be found here and now, in North Korea. In this non-fiction book, Demick...