Literature
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Review: 'Colorblind' is well-written, fast-paced yarn
Sep 12, 2018 7:00 am - "Robert B. Parker's Colorblind" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Reed Farrel Coleman Small-town Massachusetts Police Chief Jesse Stone's lifelong drinking problem hit bottom in ...
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Review: 'The Guilty Dead' has fast-paced story line
Sep 11, 2018 7:00 am - "The Guilty Dead" (Crooked Lane), by P.J. Tracy In P.J. Tracy's "The Guilty Dead," a young man battles addiction and when he finally decides he's going to clean himself ...
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'Shadow Tyrants' is latest Clive Cussler suspense thriller
Sep 11, 2018 7:00 am - "Shadow Tyrants" by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison, (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Almost 2,000 years ago, an emperor avoided a coup and entrusted nine Scrolls of Knowledge to ni...
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'I think you buried the lede': Stephen Colbert asks Bob Woodward about the final line of his book
Sep 11, 2018 1:00 am - Bob Woodward's book on the Trump administration already became a mine of joke fodder for late-night hosts long before it hit bookshelves. And on Monday, one of those hos...
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'Trust Me' is stellar thriller by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Sep 10, 2018 7:00 am - "Trust Me" (Forge Books), by Hank Phillippi Ryan A former journalist has a chance at redemption and recovery of her shattered life when she receives an offer to write ab...
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'Tear Me Apart' by J.T. Ellison is gut-wrenching thriller
Sep 10, 2018 7:00 am - "Tear Me Apart" (Mira), by J.T. Ellison "Tear Me Apart," J.T. Ellison's latest gut-wrenching thriller, asks the question: How far would a parent go to save the life of a...
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Book review: NFL insider Schefter shares deeply personal memoirSep 09, 2018 7:26 am - "The Man I Never Met: A Memoir" by Adam Schefter with Michael Rosenberg, St. Martin's Press, 208 pages NFL fans know Adam Schefter. That's because Schefter knows th...
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Book review: 'Small Fry' more than a Steve Jobs storySep 09, 2018 7:23 am - "Small Fry: A Memoir" by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Grove Press, 400 pages The ghost of Steve Jobs haunts "Small Fry," the memoir by his first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs. ...
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Book review: At 87, William Shatner has advice on how to live well. Should we listen?Sep 08, 2018 7:27 am - "Live Long and ... What I Learned Along the Way" By William Shatner and David Fisher Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 224 pages, $26.99 --- I ask the question with a cert...
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Book review: 'The Most Dangerous Branch' looks at the Supreme CourtSep 08, 2018 7:00 am - “The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution” by David A. Kaplan, Crown, 464 pages If Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirma...