Reflections
One time, many years ago, I got a job working as a salesperson. Sales was not really my gig, and I didn’t really know how to sell, so I...
Nancy Simpson
Mar 8, 2025
Book Talk: Two debuts by J.A. Jance
It may seem inappropriate to use the term “debut” when writing about novels by J.A. Jance, an author of dozens of novels after her “Until...
Jim Glynn
Mar 5, 2025
Book Talk: Whitaker, ‘All the Wicked Girls’
Chris Whitaker is not a recluse like J.D. Salinger was, although we know a great deal more about Salinger’s life than we know about...
Jim Glynn
Feb 25, 2025
Book Talk: J.A. Jance, ‘Until Proven Guilty’
J.A. Jance first arrived on my TBR (to be read) stack of books with one of her J.P. Beaumont mystery novels. Jance is a female author who...
Jim Glynn
Feb 19, 2025
Book Talk: Michael Connelly, ‘The Waiting’
During the early 1990s, I read my first Hieronymus (“Harry”) Bosch novel by Michael Connelly, and I’ve been a fan for more than 30 years....
Jim Glynn
Feb 12, 2025
Book Talk: Daniel Miller’s ‘The Tree of Knowledge’
Last week” (Jan. 29, 2025), I wrote about Daniel G. Miller’s “The Orphanage by the Lake.” I liked the introduction of a female Korean...
Jim Glynn
Feb 5, 2025
Book Talk: Daniel Miller, ‘The Orphanage by the Lake’
About 10 or so pages into Daniel G. Miller’s, “The Orphanage by the Lake” (2024, 307 pages in paperback format), I set the book down in...
Jim Glynn
Jan 29, 2025
Book Talk: Tom Combs, ‘Nerve Damage’
In 2008, Tom Combs, an emergency-room physician suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). This involves bleeding in the space between the...
Jim Glynn
Jan 22, 2025



