Wisdom of Bookmonkey

Charles de Lint's third collection of short stories set in his fictional city of Newford, includes many reoccurring characters, includi...

To be fair, I'm one of those people who walk and read. This does mean upon occasion I'll get people saying things like: "Hey...

Charles de Lint's 1998 novel, Someplace to be Flying begins innocuously enough; a cabdriver witnessing a mugging decides to get in...

Charles de Lint's Trader (1997) was, for me, a pretty great way to use fantasy elements to tell a story about starting over.  The nov...

In an average year I make it to about 18 movies in the theatre; half of them are easily Oscar nominees in January and February, and about ...

John Gardner's 1970 novel The Wreckage of Agathon marks my sixth book of the "36 Best novels for a Survey of Ancient Greek Histo...

Justin Cronin's final entry into his Passage trilogy, City of Mirrors (2016), spans nearly a thousand years, moving backwards and forw...