Well, I enjoyed the Deaver book, The Bone Collector. I liked the science. Also he did a nice job building the characters. Here's a science-y metaphor...
Oh man! That tune was hugely popular back in the day. It was a little before my time, but I can remember my mother singing along with it when it came...
Oh yeah, Deaver’s book is going swimmingly so far. I’m 3 or 4 chapters in and already I’ve learned a few things about the tribulations a quadriplegic...
...meanwhile, in a neighborhood just west of the Bowery, several of the boys who'd recently immigrated from Sicily, were hatching out a scheme for a...
Nice set of posts, Poppin. I can speak with some authority on “spaniel-like dependence.” Over the years the Señora and I have burned through a dozen...
All in all I thought Maggie was a pretty flat character. As you said It’s a short book. So there’s not too much room to delve into her psyche, but I...
That was worth it.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like the big difference between cyclo-cross and mountain biking is cyclo-crossers run more....
Also she'd run out of options. "Ruined" then dumped by Pete (schmuck). Her drunken mom playing the victim and throwing her out. The girl had no where...
I used to love to listen to Phil Rizzuto call a game. He didn’t have a super strong accent, but just enough around the edges so that you know you’re...
I wish I could find an article I read a few years back in The New Yorker (I think). It was all about American accents and regionalisms. There was an...