Monthly Archives: May 2020

Book Review: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Posted on May 30, 2020 by John Walters

As I have mentioned before, with the libraries closed, I am searching my shelves for overlooked books that I may have bought sometime in the past but never read. The Windup Girl is one of these. I found it in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Posted on May 23, 2020 by John Walters

I bought this book thinking that it was a typical biography – typical, that is, in the sense that it would be an absorbing story of an extraordinary individual set in a fascinating time period of world history. In these … Continue reading →

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The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories

Posted on May 9, 2020 by John Walters

My new short story collection has been published and is now available at multiple booksellers. A woman doomed to fall endlessly backwards in time unexpectedly finds an unusual and enigmatic romance. An elderly homeless man’s debit card becomes a magical … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Slow River by Nicola Griffith

Posted on May 2, 2020 by John Walters

This book, Slow River by Nicola Griffith, I’ve had on my shelf for years but never got around to reading. Not that I didn’t want to – it’s a Nebula Award winner and all – but it always seemed that … Continue reading →

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