School shooting

    Twenty by James Grippando

    Not long ago, I read Dave Cullen’s  fabulous Parkland and it reinforced not only my horror about school shootings but my complete lack of understanding about the shooters. And although on one level I know they are not all the same, in my brain they all seem to coalesce into a group of people wo …

    The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall

    I keep thinking about this book. Great story, memorable characters, kept me guessing (although most do – I’m horrible at figuring out the mystery in a mystery!) So, why do I have such mixed feelings about it? I hadn’t read anything by Zoe Whittall, although she has written award-winning “literary fiction”…but I liked the description …

    Lockdown by Laurie R. King

    I live on the Central Coast of California, where it’s borderline heresy to be anything less than a huge fan of beloved local author Laurie King. True confession time: I admit it, I tried a couple of her books and they just didn’t grab me. But seeing that her latest book, Lockdown, was subtitled “A …