Etta's Fishing Ground (Book) - 6/30/2026 11:44:50 AM
This work offers an interesting reading experience with a style that encourages reflection and imagination. The writing shows creativity and a clear effort to connect with readers through its ideas and storytelling.
What stands out is the way the author presents emotions, themes, and perspectives in a way that invites readers to think beyond the surface. It is a meaningful piece that will appeal to readers who enjoy discovering new voices and different storytelling approaches.
A worthwhile read for those who appreciate original writing and the passion behind independent authors.
100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s (Book) - 2/27/2022 3:07:41 PM
An enjoyable visit back before the digital age came along and made things so much easier by complicating everything. Strange, but true. A personal look at growing up in the 1960s anyone who was raised back then can easily relate to.
I thoroughly enjoyed this sometimes-humorous memoir. I had forgotten some of it, but it was brought back to life in the blog-style entries. Each two-page vignette is a window into a time when so much was taken for granted. It reminds us all to cherish and treasure the little things that may one day be gone forever.
Etta's Fishing Ground (Book) - 10/13/2021 2:53:09 PM
Due to my eyesight, I can only read Kindle where I can increase the font size... But am looking forward to reading your novel, Eva..
Best of luck!
Mark
Etta's Fishing Ground (Book) - 10/13/2021 12:25:33 PM
Congrats Eva. Great achievement. Good luck.
Etta's Fishing Ground (Book) - 10/13/2021 11:22:35 AM
I'm waiting for the paperback:)
But I just bought An Enlightening Quiche
which looks like a great read.
Many blessings and wonderful sales, Eva.
Mr. Wizardo (Book) - 6/10/2021 7:53:23 AM
I haven't seen this novella by you before. And I haven't read it, myself, but based on these reviews that I see in your five-star rating, I think you are hitting home runs with your writing!
Kudos, break a leg, and whatever!
Ron
100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s (Book) - 1/9/2020 1:08:25 PM
100 Wild Mushrooms is a refreshing and unique take on the 1960’s. The book is composed of numerous vignettes where Ms. Pasco describes an era far removed from what is sometimes referred to as the psychedelic Sixties. Here she tells tales of growing up in a comforting time full of simple pleasures and small adventures that many of us have forgotten or are just too distracted to remember. Ms. Pasco’s delightful reminiscences include the great debate over whether to-dunk-or-not-to-dunk Oreo cookies and a hilarious three part essay on the art of hanging laundry. One chapter, playfully entitled The Cold War, is a laugh-out-loud dissertation on how to defrost a refrigerator. She describes cozy Saturday mornings with her younger sister watching Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Flintstones after a yummy breakfast of their favorite sugary cereals like Fruit Loops and Frosted Flakes. In one memory she tells of the delight her family experiences in the remarkable invention of the reusable jelly jar, which when finished, could be used as a drinking glass complete with a picture of Howdy Doody on it. I must confess that as a kid I used to think that all our drinking glasses came from reused jelly jars.
Through it all Ms. Pasco rejoices in the resilience of the children of the Sixties, but not necessarily by surviving war, racial strife or psychedelic drugs but as she puts it,
“even after tempest-tossed rides in the back of our Plymouth station wagon, unrestrained by seat belts; scrapes dexterously treated with Mercurochrome; inhaling noxious fumes from airplane glue piecing together science projects; keeping company with a subversive streetwise trash talking “wabbit” named Bugs; witnessing two drunken brawlers named Popeye and Bluto beating the daylights out of each other over Olive Oyl; a stooge poking his fingers in the eyes of the other two, or bopping them on the head with a two-by-four—my sister and I survived the Sixties without becoming juvenile delinquents.”
For myself, I found reading a few chapters each night before going to sleep comforting and enjoyable, as Ms. Pasco’s soothing storytelling of a time long gone helped me drift way from another day with a smile.
A thoroughly enjoyable book.
100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s (Book) - 1/28/2018 3:02:44 PM
Eva Pasco has taken us back to the 1960s when life was simpler, and life’s pleasures were simpler as well. Although it was a time when we worried about nuclear war, life was more enjoyable as families were close, sharing their time and aspirations for the future. She reminds us of the small things we found pleasure in, in that era; such as treats that are no longer available or that have been changed to a point that they are unrecognizable. She reminds us of times in history we as baby boomers lived through that are taught in the history books today. Her story is nostalgia well worth reading, and for baby boomers, worth remembering.
100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s (Book) - 10/25/2017 12:40:02 PM
Dear Eva Pasco:
I just read some of your work, on this site. I am very impressed, and humbled, by your ability to use words so passionately and in such a vivid way. After reading your book about Retro 60's; I thought to myself: "That's good writing. I wish I could have such a command of the English language, as she has." If I could, I would write more often and I would be very grateful for the ability to express myself, in such a way as you do. Your writing is extraordinary! I can only hope that I may learn to improve my own writing, by reading your work. Not unlike a gifted painter (artist), a good writer is able to create (in words), a visual concept, in ones mind, of the event or place that is being spoken of--and YOU have done that with this particular book. I envy your talent.
100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s (Book) - 10/14/2017 6:46:58 AM
Another fine recollection, I recollect. Your work on The 60s Site was nothing short of prodigious!
My memories of mushrooms were from the 50s and weren't necessarily thoughts of atomic clouds. Somehow the atomic disaster drills escaped me. Although there were plenty of fire drills where we ran outside and waited for the, “all clear,” to return to our classroom routine.
My mushroom memories were of my grandfather's favorite “button” mushrooms that would pop out of the moist earth in our inner-city yard after a rain. He would boil a sample in a pot with a silver spoon. If the spoon didn't tarnish, the mushrooms were good to eat. We then fried them in butter and they were very good (and very poisonous?).
While out in our other grandfather's farm we often came upon puffballs. When they were brown, we would kick them and watch a miniature atomic explosion of spore. We didn't know that using a silver spoon was not a way to test mushrooms to see if they were poisonous and that puffballs were safe to eat when they were white.
Ron
100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s (Book) - 10/14/2017 5:17:43 AM
Congratulations on this publication. I see you have gone with CreateSpace as I have done for the last several poetry books. A great platform. Love the cover.
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 5/1/2026 7:05:44 AM
Oh yes I remember 9/11very well. I had just gotten the kids off to school when my mother-in-law called and said turn on the news. I was shocked to see and hear what was happening. I will never forget that day.
Rose
The Chimes (Short Story) - 4/13/2026 2:47:32 AM
A gloriously analogous window, observing rich {and oft-times complex} aspects of life and time; proving that these historic triumphs were built to last, and cannot be silenced indefinitely .
I like this a lot. I also have a bit of a thing for 'proper clocks', so that ticks another box for me.🌞
Off the Bunny Trail (Short Story) - 3/29/2026 6:20:50 PM
The burger sounds delicious. So does the turkey.
Happy Easter.
A Blonde Moment! (Short Story) - 5/13/2025 2:38:51 AM
Love it. So good to be able to laugh at yourself
A Remembrance (Short Story) - 5/7/2025 11:14:18 AM
Your story brought me back to the yesteryears of my life with my mom. She was a homemaker and always included us in what she was making. My answer to your Uncles question would be (Respected).
Thank you for sharing. I have just recently rejoined the Den. I was on it for several years before.
Rose
The Arrangement (Short Story) - 1/22/2025 12:38:31 PM
I never thought of flowers that way, very good, thank you.
The Arrangement (Short Story) - 12/21/2024 1:20:59 PM
Wow,I really loved this and I totally agree with Emma Goldman's quote,thank you for sharing this story,I try to have flowers in my little home every day,yes,they make every day feel better🍀
The Profoundness of Pie (Short Story) - 10/8/2024 12:26:30 AM
My mom's apple pie!
Grew up in the country where we would pick the fruit for our pies. Yum! My favorite desert. While apple isn't my favorite flavor, it is the most sentimental. My mom is still alive but no longer bakes pies. An ex sister in law recreates her recipe and I don't know if I enjoy the flavor or the memories more!
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 8/3/2024 1:27:01 PM
1945 My mother's uncle, whose land my dad sharecropped, shouted happily to my mom, "He's home!" His son, my second cousin, had been overseas fighting WWII and after the German and Japanese surrenders, had come home. One of mom's brothers and one of my dad's also came home.
9/11.01 I'd just gotten out of bed, my husband and I were about to eat breakfast when my sister in another state called. "Is your tv on?" "No. Why?" "I think we're at war." I was so stunned I couldn't take it in until we turned on the television.
1/2011 The phone woke me up that morning. "He's gone." The lady at the nursing home informed me. And my life changed as drastically as the day we said "I do," more than fifty years before.
Drifting with the Tide (Short Story) - 7/15/2023 9:06:00 AM
I enjoyed your story very much Eva. You gave me a whole new way of looking at the world. Thank You
Drifting with the Tide (Short Story) - 1/18/2023 12:20:31 PM
We all need pleasures that are our own and are not necessarily enjoyed by anyone else. This is a good example. If you think you need to imitate other people to feel fulfilled you will probably be disappointed.
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 4/25/2022 2:08:48 PM
These are the times that try men's and women's souls. As you have shown, everybody has memories of key dates. On 9/11/2001 I was walking the End-to-end in England, not far from Wigan, and I was carrying a cellphone for the first time. My wife was at a records center doing family research. She called my phone, said, "This is not a joke," and the line went dead. This happened twice more. Finally, somebody in the records office led her to another phone and we were able to talk. She said, "We are at war." I asked who we were at war with. Hours later we met at the Charles Dickens Inn. I got there first and watched on the telly as the planes crashed into the buildings time after time.
An Attitude of Gratitude (Short Story) - 1/10/2022 7:48:09 AM
Your piece here feels bright and wise. Unlike Ron, I find this to be very ‘story,’ with the glimpse factor. Even a two-liner can be a story I think. This writing of yours has a beginning, middle and end, with the end returning to the beginning… of ‘Christmas.’ It even contains a herculean tension-factor of the most consequential health threat. I love the concept of attitudinal adjustment, and that gratitude and awareness entered the story. It even has the happy ending of the health threat becoming ‘glad tidings.’ Keep on keeping on. You write very well* ~~ djl
An Attitude of Gratitude (Short Story) - 12/26/2021 4:37:18 PM
So glad for you, my friend, when "informed there were no signs of any malignancy" What t a wonderful gift indeed! Though I do not remember you speaking of it, but I do hope that your mother is now safe and as healthy as could be.
Being Jewish... A fully non practicing Jew, Christmas has to me and my family always been a non religious family time when we get leftover ham for the next few meals. At least it is no longer left over turkey.
I'd say "Happy New Year" to you now, but I know we'll be in touch again before 2022.
Mark
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 12/5/2021 7:23:47 AM
well done Eva. i also remember those moments, and others like some of those have already left theirs. thank you for reawakening them for a moment.
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 11/13/2021 1:39:11 PM
Old guy like me can still remember many of the "Rotted in Time" dates.
Here in California, I was in our 2nd bed room writing when my wife (at that time) called me into the other room to show me what was happening... Horrible, "horrible"... I had a job to do on that morning and she asked
if I was still going to go. I said "yes" because if I don't they win."
11/22/62 I was living in the Chicago area at that time and heard the announcement on my car radio while on my way home...
I was seven years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and remember the sadness that overtook the entire family...
Nice to be able to remember some good stuff.
Mark
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 10/31/2021 8:58:19 AM
Wow, that's really neat, what you did. Me, I remember when it was announced over the radio that Robert Kennedy had died. I was sitting on a swing, lolling in the sun, when the announcement came from the radio my dad played in the garage. I remember one of my tears dropped into the sand below my bare feet. He died June 6, 1968. I remember when Princess Di was killed. I was sitting in my son's room watching his tv with him when the report pre-empted a show. She was killed August 31, 1997. On September 11th, 2001, my husband called me from his work and told me to turn on the tv to see the news. I stood in the living room not registering what I was seeing, when the second plane hit the tower.
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 10/30/2021 11:51:46 AM
It is those horrid moments that solidified our memories from our past, like it or not. Psychologists agree that we tend to forget the bad things in our lives and even tend to make some bad things better than they really were. Tending towards the good.
I had young parents and couldn't imagine my father dying at 15. It must have ben devastating for you. I was commuting on the freeway to work when I heard of the first plane crashing. My immediate thought was "terrorists!" On the other hand, that Friday morning when Kennedy was shot, I was preparing to drive home to take the Thanksgiving week off so that I could have my spinal surgery and get back to school soon. It was only when I got in the hospital, watching television and saw a Ruby shoot Oswald, that the whole incident became clear. I was old enough and had voted for Kennedy and going to the moon!
Ron
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 10/30/2021 12:52:51 AM
September 11, 2001, I had just begun working in my office. I turned around to have a mini chat with my co-workers. Somebody came into the office and told us some planes had crashed into the Trade Centers and I was in total disbelieve! I thought it was a fabricated event until another co-worker turned on the radio to confirm the sad news. Even though I was in Canada but I felt bad for the Americans. It was a really sad day! We all grieved.
Sandie
Rooted in Time (Short Story) - 10/29/2021 12:52:38 PM
September 11, 2001, I had just arrive in the office on John Street, in lower Manhattan, when I heard a loud boom! I thought it might be a truck back-firing, but trucks haven't done that in a long time! Soon a co-worker announced that something had crashed into the World Trade Center. We got up from our chairs and ran to the window. Looking up John Street we saw smoke and dust coming out of the WTC, so were bodies falling from the windows. Later that day we stood in the lobby of our building and watched as dust and large clumps of cement fell and exploded on the street outside the thick glass doors. When the dust settled, we covered our noses and mouths with handkerchiefs or scarves and headed home. As we sat on the NJ Transit crossing the Meadowlands, we stood to look out the windows at the place where the WTC used to be.
The Priority of Pudding (Short Story) - 8/6/2021 9:10:08 AM
Wonderful covid account, Eva! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I, too, found little use for the clothes, purses, jewelry, and such gathering dust. I waited until this year, though, before I went on a rampage of throwing out such nonsense. Dresses? What do I need dresses for? Evening purses? Out they go! Take care and glad to hear you are one of the smart ones who learned to adapt. It was and still is the best way to cope these days. Thrive, not just survive!
The Souvenir (Short Story) - 7/29/2021 3:05:54 PM
I think those boys now have a wonderful memory, too. I know of few teachers who would take the time with two little rapscallions as you had.
The Decision (Short Story) - 6/24/2021 9:11:45 AM
Awww, this is so sad. Pets just don't live long enough. What a tough decision we pet owners have to eventually make. It never gets easier. Glad you had a cat like Hope to share your life with as long as you could. Corrine
Drifting with the Tide (Short Story) - 6/9/2021 10:00:24 AM
Having faced, the revenge of the clam one time, when they were cooked from frozen stock in landlocked West Virginia, I am leery but still game as long as they are well fried.
But you have shown how you have weathered and prefer seeking out bits of refuse that has weathered, just like you and I, the misfortune, generally, to have been broken from its original state and then gained a fine patina with age. It's nice to be adrift these days without serious obligation.
Ron
Drifting with the Tide (Short Story) - 6/7/2021 5:48:19 AM
What wonderful imagery! Walking along a shoreline is one of the most attractive. I miss the Michigan shoreline I used to walk along as a kid. So glad that your enjoyment of retrieving treasures has not dimmed even as the "sea glass" of our physical lives may become frosted with the years. May your combination of sharp wit and optimism see you through a beautiful week. Blessings.
Book Review: Deep Sorrow, Healing Follows (Article) - 6/5/2026 11:54:32 AM
Another great review. I don't know how you do it. I haven't had time to read a book for some time.
Books like this seemed to sell because everyone who has experienced grief wants to know if they are alone, or if they can learn from finding out how others dealt with their grief.
Ron
Book Review: Every Stone is a Story by Toni Kief (Article) - 5/25/2026 11:27:53 AM
Interesting. I'm fascinated with what came before. I'm starting to watch the obituaries from here in Houston and my hometown.
Washington State is relatively new. I think reviewing the tombstones in a cemetery in Rhode Island would be much more illuminating. But those obituaries, going back into the 1600s might be rather hard to find.
Finally, on an little island in a small lake surrounding the cemetery in Menomonie, Wisconsin is the grave of a veteran of the Revolutionary War. To think that someone who fought in the war from the colonies lived to end his life in the far Northwestern Territories, is a story in itself.
Ron
Book Review: Who Holds the Power? by Furious Law (Article) - 4/13/2026 11:24:44 AM
You left me wondering whether it was a memoir or a work of fiction from similar themes like The Karate Kid.
I can identify, spending my younger years in a poor neighborhood in an industrial town. But we all knew that Chicago was worse. Perhaps, still is.
My father was a Golden Gloves boxer. Had the cauliflower ears to prove it. I never saw him have to back down to anyone. Yet, he never provoked a fight. I became a wrestler. Controlling my opponent rather than beating him.
I recall only one time when a group of Boy Scouts attacked me in our cabin. I got furious and threw them all off although some of them were twice my size.
Ron
Book Review: The Turnaround by J.S. Frankel (Article) - 11/5/2025 9:32:10 AM
A review I loved to read. Because your review told me why I was not interested in the nerve-racking action that you described with what we contend are quantum and conspiracy theories and not quantum and conspiracy fact.
That's what a good review should do. Tell us whether or not we would want to read the book.
Ron
Book Review: The Squirrel That Loved Ice Cream by A. C. Arrigo (Article) - 9/23/2025 1:44:39 PM
That's the way our children's book should be. In their language, show them the right way to go in life. Often from familiar friendly creatures they adore like squirrels.
Ron
PS. My partner showed me and emaciated squirrel that came by the front of their all concrete parking lot shop door. She opened the door and waved to the squirrel that it was OK to come in and save her some nuts that she threw out to get the squirrel to come in. She was amazed at how much it ate right there and then. Probably very hungry.
She expects it will come back again now that it knows where food is.
Ron
Book Review: Joni &Jean's Terrible & Wonderful Adventure - J.S. Frankel (Article) - 9/22/2025 12:53:19 PM
While I will never read Frankel, your reviews give me some insight into his writing.
In this case he delves into vampires and the like as types of unsavory individuals, especially if they cohabit with what white, God-fearing supremacist people who believe they are the wrong kind of people, and need to be eliminated.
Apparently, paralleling in his novels, the pattern our society is heading with the chasm between those who are open, progressive and liberal to those who are fearful, uptight, angry and violent when it becomes apparent to them that progress has gone too far for them to stomach.
Ron
Book Review: Of Dusk and Shadows by J.S. Frankel (Article) - 6/5/2025 1:43:25 PM
While I'm not into teenage self discovery novels, or fanciful worlds created by authors as a backdrop for various kinds of moral lessons, I will take your word for it that this is another one of JS Frankel's stellar works..
Ron
Book Review: Grime Doesn't Pay by Jay Larkin (Article) - 5/14/2025 3:11:00 PM
I love that phrase. And think of my mother as a cleaning lady in a supper club rather than going to college and learning the ropes of business that she did very well at home.
My laziness to read as me following eagerly The Cleaning Lady. But it's of a whole different genre. Dangerous and deadly.
Ron
Roid Rage by J.S. Frankel (Article) - 10/25/2024 1:09:12 PM
Thanks for the succinct review. I know what to get my sci-fi lovers this Christmas:)
Blessings, Eva.
Book Review: Midnight Tequila by Suzann Kale (Article) - 8/11/2024 2:39:57 PM
What an intriguing book. The story Zis very detailed in writing style about Solange, our 52-year-old Tarot card reader on a 900 line that works mostly during the midnight hour with a shot of tequila by her side; along with any drug she can obtain. The book is separated into the regular story about Solange and her separate journal entries that she creates wearing her granddaughter’s pink boa using her Hello Kitty magic wand pen – the image alone is very entertaining, especially when you include the following: “an impending hot flash, she put the pen to her chin and waited. The familiar warmth hit her in the solar plexus like a small internal bomb, and the heat radiated out so evenly and quickly it made her gasp. Sweat broke out on her forehead, her chest, her thighs. Within seconds her Victoria’s Secret peach satin nightgown was soaked through. She leaned back on her seven extra-soft pillows and let the changing of her life wash through her” as she struggled to be the best harp player ever. The music was lovely, when she was good but occasionally (more times than not) her fingers would freeze and become numb. No harp player, trained or not, wants this condition. Funny thing to me was the statement “We took out your wrong note, Solange, you know what they say, Fix it in the mix.” That comes in handy, but what got my mind wondering was the comment that “… locked herself in the music room where the lithium was – cocktail hour.” Solange, in her peach colored, pillowed bed, with a peach-colored satin nightgown on. The novel, Midnight Tequila by Suzann Kale was interesting in a couple different ways … I found the book had some excellent writing, however the changes from normal routine to journal were choppy, not an easy flow of transition which was difficult to follow the story with her menopausal harp-playing versus her life apart from her deceased husband. “The problem occurred when the Valium wore off, and her husband was still dead.” I liked parts of Midnight Tequila very much, but the switch from one writing style to another from the storyline to her journal does not slide seamlessly together causing a breakup in the reading which is hard to follow. I found myself re=reading sections to piece together where I was in the story.
Book Review: Miraculous Treatment by Erika M. Szabo (Article) - 7/4/2024 12:51:27 PM
While you didn't state what the "price" was for the miraculous cure and telepathic powers, telepathic power may be within reach by using technology. The idea of it being available to some in their minds has been the subject of science fantasy for some time.
Ron
Book Review; My Mocha Skin by Anna Casamento Arrigo (Article) - 3/24/2024 11:09:42 AM
This is one of so many children's playthings and books that have finally reached the mainstream market. From the cover, the illustrator was exceptional, as I believe the rhyming story was. If only our elder statesman in high places would understand that to be different is to be beautiful, as they grow uglier and uglier, staying in office way too long and dragging the country down with their racism.
You reminded me of the time I stopped in the bookstore at Atlanta University Center in 1979 to see if I could find a birthday card. All of the cards there showed black people. It was a whole black community on the west side of Atlanta that had been there since the 1870s, well educated by four universities and a graduate school where I worked, Atlanta University. While there, MLK I came in with MLK III, a freshman buying his books for his first year in college. When his grandfather said, "charge it," there was a commotion that ensued. The embarrassed young man urged his grandfather to leave with him in their car at the curb. I don't know if he got his books or not, but the old man was fond of charging things he never paid for.
Ron
Book Review: Virtual Enemies by Sharon Mierke (Article) - 3/16/2024 11:43:21 AM
Sounds like a winner for mystery readers. But I was disappointed when the title used the word virtual. As a science fiction reader, I was looking for an Internet connection in the story and didn't see it. But maybe it is there if they are feuding on Facebook. But your review doesn't say that or not.
Ron
Book Review: Seven Times Unto Eternity (Article) - 1/22/2024 9:45:17 AM
I have gay friends and neighbors, all nice guys. And I don't mind if they want to get married to one another and have families… Adopting kids who otherwise might be stuck in foster care and might end up criminals. Unfortunately, tight assed conservative disdain wants to make this kind of family illegal.
I have a hard time understanding why one male would find another male attractive enough to have sex with them and want to marry. During the teenage years when hormones are raging, young women have a tendency to reject all comers except for those they think will protect them. Whereas, during those years, males bond easily. Perhaps it is the fear of rejection and the ease of acceptance into the gay world that some men fall into it and find it comfortable and enjoyable. Especially without the burden of having children unless one wants them.
On the other hand, women seem very comfortable with gay guys. Perhaps because they don't seem to be a threat when it comes to sex.
Apparently Frankel has a good way of handling these issues very well according to your review.
Ron
Book Review: Tessy Turtle by Anna Casamento Arrigo (Article) - 1/3/2024 8:23:05 AM
I love the use of barnacles in your last line. You make me wonder if humpback whales are bothered by the barnacles that collect on them as they age. Are blue whales faster for have slicker skin, and that's why they don't grow barnacles?
When I was a child, there were few books in the library that were for children. But I recall reading all of the Dr. Seuss books in the local library and 2nd grade. One was like Arigo's and it stuck with me. It featured a boy that made a product from a tree that was so successful that he eventually cut down out of the trees and destroyed his business. The same as the Easter Island story.
Today, there are many books available for children. But I especially like books like Arigo's because they not only have great stories and illustrations, but teach a lesson as well.
I just saw a TV story about a very remote island that is one of the greatest sources of annual hatching of green turtles. Unfortunately, the sand is getting too hot for any males to be hatched. Only one in 100 of the hatchlings are male. Another problem is that the island will be completely underwater before the end of the century and this great hatchery will be gone.
Ron
Book Review: And the Devil Take Ye by J.S. Frankel (Article) - 12/27/2023 12:17:11 PM
Your review makes the book sound very interesting. Using those well-known places, it appears to be a parody of the way we all see the world. Probably in a new way.
Ron
The Replacement by J.S. Frankel (Article) - 10/31/2023 9:42:46 AM
You left me wondering if Frankel wrote this book with planet Earth at a time of newspaper ads. (I've heard they still exist for small town papers) And then, had the message transported across the galaxy to a planet of Frankel's design, so that he could use the analogy to point out Earth inadequacies. Clever.
Ron
Book Review: The Backup Crew by J.S. Frankel (Article) - 10/8/2023 9:35:02 AM
From your review, readers should flock to J. S. Frankel's works. I've been watching a lot of films about maligned individuals from dysfunctional families who find the right direction to go, often by violent action against their antagonist. It seems to be a common thing of the hero coming from an anti-hero place, and then overcoming their own situation to becoming a hero.
Complex characters coming to a simplistic good. The stuff that sells books and movies, but not really true to real life very often. I guess real life is too dull in our fast-paced, thrill seeking society where everyone wants to live a bucket list that they can't afford.
Ron
Book Review: The Sugar Bush Vampire by Robert Clark (Article) - 9/16/2023 10:26:10 AM
I think I'll pass. At my cottage in West Virginia, the hillside and my three-quarter acre property with few trees was once a place to collect maple sugar sap. The only maple left was a dead scarecrow that I needed to take down before it fell on my cottage in a windstorm. When we took it down it was honeycombed from worms and occupied by honeybees that were dead.
Do you think there were any vampires around? There weren't even any mosquitoes. But the chiggers were bloodsucking little bastards.
Ron
Book Review: Haven Point by P.S. Winn (Article) - 9/9/2023 9:03:18 AM
I've been watching a number of rather dystopian movies. And almost everyone there is a kind of beastly opposite to the good in people that come to the fore in almost every story.
The novel that I'm writing and serializing here that you are reading, thank you so much, covers a similar theme. Rebuilding after a major cataclysm.
While you mention the human side of the rebuilding quite well, I would be interested in the validity of the destroyed infrastructure and rebuilding of it. It would all depend upon the devastation created by the "meteor shower." In other words, has Winn written a fantasy with believable characters or a believable scenario with believable characters?
Ron
Book Review: Little Greenwood Case by Trisha J. Kelly (Article) - 8/30/2023 11:23:46 AM
I am in awe of your disciplined book reading and review. You have given Trisha a good bit of promotion by your purchase and review of her book.
Ron
Book Review: Oduru: Rebellion (Article) - 8/24/2023 9:03:19 AM
While I have fallen in love with the various characters in the Walking Dead series on television, the idea of the undead is totally preposterous. While I would concede that in the future there may be other versions of the human race, the idea of vampires also makes no biological sense. Actually, it's more of a metaphor for someone who sucks the living life out of someone else, typically a vamp or leach whose lifestyle is attracted to taking rather than giving.
Given the success of the characters in Walking Dead, now branching out in sequels of their own success in the series, I can see why JS Frankel may have come up with the wonderful human stories that are so intriguing in your appraisal of his work.
Ron
Book Review: Moon Puddles by Robert Gamble (Article) - 7/26/2023 11:35:43 AM
Moon puddles still escapes me. The scientific me knows that all of the seas on the moon were misnamed and there is no water on the surface, just a lot of dust.
“…shares his views on the social injustices perpetrated during the Sixties." That statement leads me to believe that this writer was opposed and may still be opposed to the antiwar movement or even the civil rights movement that continues today. But perhaps it's the other way around. Your review does not reveal because the divide between older folks and younger folks during that period was often as great as the divide today between the left and the right and politics.
Ron
