Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All, by Glen Cantrell | Book Review

Clocking in at roughly 150 pages and coming out November 10th, Embracing the Local is an upcoming civic memoir that chronicles Glen Cantrell in his first year as president of the Twain Harte Area Chamber of Commerce. Pitched somewhere between a memoir and an essay collection, it arrives with a somewhat unusual origin story. The […]

Woman of Valor, by Jeanne Simonoff | Book Review

What do you do when the person you love is still there, but the person you knew is already gone? Woman of Valor is a memoir by Jeanne Simonoff, published September 2, 2026 by Redhawk Publications that explores this topic. It’s a slim book at 150 pages, and the second installment in a planned memoir […]

Looked Down Upon: The Exiled Kin, by Jordan Lopez | Book Review

The first book in a duology, Looked Down Upon: The Exiled Kin is an imaginative coming-of-age thriller from indie author Jordan Lopez. Published on August 12, 2023, with the sequel coming out last year, it clocks in at 316 pages and feels like a personal project in more ways than one. Reading it, I kept […]

Despite It All, I Made It Through, by R. Marin | Book Review

Memoirs live or die on one simple test: is this ordinary life, as lived, actually worth someone else’s time to read? Despite It All, I Made It Through: Volume I, published May 22, 2026, is the first of a planned trilogy and is billed as a novel “inspired by a true story,” though it reads […]

In Between Rooms, by Adrian Mompoint | Book Review

The cover of In Between Rooms gives you a perfect preview of what you’re in for: a bloodied stuffed elephant sitting alone. It’s a fitting image for Adrian M. Mompoint’s second horror novella, which continues to draw heavily from Stephen King. Where his previous novella, The Performance Review felt more like a King short story […]

Why Does Time Feel Like It Speeds Up As You Get Older?

Ask almost any adult over forty and they’ll tell you the same strange thing: summers used to last forever, and now entire years seem to evaporate somewhere between January and the next January. It’s one of the few pieces of folk wisdom about aging that turns out to be backed by real science, and the […]

Waiting for the Bad Thing to Happen, by Anita Fiore Welsh | Book Review

Anita Fiore Welsh was given up for adoption in 1963, through an adoption that wasn’t legal. Her memoir, Waiting For the Bad Thing to Happen, published July 21, 2026, covers the years that followed, including time in foster care, relationships, marriages, all looked back on with a fair amount of hard-earned wisdom. At 202 pages, […]

In Between Rooms, by Adrian Mompoint | Book Review

The cover of In Between Rooms gives you a perfect preview of what you’re in for: a bloodied stuffed elephant sitting alone. It’s a fitting image for Adrian M. Mompoint’s second horror novella, which continues to draw heavily from Stephen King. Where his previous novella, The Performance Review felt more like a King short story […]

Sol Canyon, by Michael Wolf | Book Review

Sol Canyon by Michael Wolf is a Los Angeles detective novel that starts out as a light character piece and gradually turns into something quite a bit darker. Released September 2025, it’s the first book in Michael Wolf’s series following James Gardiner, a young private eye who narrates his own life like an old-school hardboiled […]