Reviews (Books & Movies)

Munoz Stewart, Diana: Broken Promises
I know Danielle Steel and Robert Ludlum only by reputation, but this genre (Romantic Suspense)...

Blake, Nicholas: The Smiler with the Knife
CECIL DAY-LEWIS AKA NICHOLAS BLAKE Cecil Day-Lewis was Poet Laureate of England from 1968 until...

Mandela, Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela recognized timeless truths during his decades of imprisonment. Among them (1) that there...

Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo was Dickensian before Dickens was Dickensian. I reread The Hunchback of Notre Dame...

Ambler, Eric: Cause for Alarm
The second oldest profession is at least as old as the oldest, but for whatever...

Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe
Food for thought: Ivanhoe was published in 1819, telling a story that took place in...

Mather, Berkley: The Pass Beyond Kashmir
This terrific novel was endorsed in its time by Ernest Hemingway, Erle Stanley Gardner, and...

Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens sets a leisurely pace in his novels and in Bleak House he's at his...