Category: Literature


  • Goodreads description: To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. At rock bottom following her daughter’s murder, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr’s father never talked much about the reservation that raised him, but they need a new tribal marshal as much as…

  • Hello! Welcome to my January reading wrap-up. I finished reading 9 books in January, including The Epic of Gilgamesh, which I talked about in-depth here. I say “finished reading” because there were a few that I started but hadn’t finished yet by the stroke of February, so I’ll mention those briefly at the end of this…

  • I’ve read The Epic of Gilgamesh several times, and it never fails to amaze me how accessible something so old can be. If you’ve ever read a comic book or watched a superhero movie, you might recognize a lot of elements from Gilgamesh, the legendary tale of a real king of Uruk in the 2nd millennium BC/BCE.…

  • I listened to the audiobook of this short story yesterday (as part of an Audible exclusive collection of short stories called Trespass: Take a Walk on the Wild Side), and I thought I would attempt to write a review. Not an easy task for me, since Stephen Graham Jones’ writing usually leaves me speechless. He…

  • The Kesh Temple Hymn is the oldest piece of literature ever found, dating back to around 2600 BC/BCE. Stop and think about that for a moment – many people today consider a literary work “old” if it pre-dates themselves, but this poem pre-dates almost everything that has ever been written by human hands. Many of…

  • Hello! Thanks for checking out this list of my most anticipated book releases of 2025. A lot of what I read is over a century old, but there are several contemporary authors and genres that I love and eagerly reach for. So, while I’ll be reading a lot of classics from all over the world…