Damn English! by Gary Sherbell Damn English! (Black Rose Writing 2025) by Gary Sherbell is a witty exploration of why your high school English papers were always covered in red ink. With humor and insight, Sherbell compiles a collection of homonyms, tricky spellings, and the many illogical quirks of the English language—all in one entertaining […]
August Books of Note: “Damn English!” and “When Time Was Suspended”
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
“The Goddess of Weaver Street” by Joy Ross Davis
August 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Review by Deb Bowen Prolific author Joy Ross Davis offers readers both magical realism and a view of societal norms for upper class women during the Eisenhower era in The Goddess of Weaver Street (Wyatt-MacKenzie, July 2, 2024) Women in the 1950s and early 1960s, relegated to rigidly defined domestic roles, cherished their portable hair […]
“The Game” by Brandon Keller
July 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
In his gripping debut novel The Game: A High-Stakes Conspiracy of Power, Poker, and Profit (Black Rose Writing, 2025), Brandon Keller explores the ruthless race to control artificial intelligence—an innovation powerful enough to reshape the future. With its fast-paced plot and financial intrigue, The Game will appeal to fans of Stephen Frey’s financial thrillers and […]
“Rural Astronomy” by Georgann Eubanks
July 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Reading Georgann Eubanks’s Rural Astronomy (EastOver Press June 2025) felt like revisiting a hometown after a long absence—some of the landscape has changed, some of the houses sport new shutters, some of the memories are bittersweet, and the territory is both comforting and strange. It’s no wonder that Eubanks leads readers through a literary journey […]
“The Dark Library” by Mary Anna Evans
July 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Mary Anna Evans has been intriguing readers with her masterful and intelligent mysteries for over two decades. During this time, Mississippi-born Evans earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Exeter and became an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. […]
“The Wars Between Us and Them” by P. V. LeForge
July 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The setting for The Wars Between Us and Them (Back Bay Books, 2025) by P. V. LeForge is Detroit, Michigan—his birthplace. So why is a Southern publication reviewing a novel set so far north? Because LeForge’s parents moved to Florida when he was just an infant and he remained there most of his life. He […]