Wisdom of Bookmonkey

Joe Hill's latest novel, The Fireman (2016) focuses on a pandemic of spontaneous combustion. Just take a moment and think about how aw...

Tomorrow I leave my thirties behind, and hit my fortieth birthday; which, as is often said, is surely better than the alternative. As a lo...

When reading any series, in any genre, you eventually come across a book that works to put everything you've read together, showing yo...

M.R. Carey's 2016 follow up to The Girl With all the Gifts is a ghost story set in a maximum security women's prison called Fellsi...

Next month my youngest daughter heads into her second year of University and my oldest into her first year of Graduate Studies, and alth...

Following up his books Mr. Mercedes (2014) and Finders Keepers (2015), Stephen King's End of Watch is his third to feature retired ...

Russell Hoban’s 1980 dystopian future novel Riddley Walker begins as follows: On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt...