Ohio

by Stephen Markley Ohio is made up of four stories. Bill Ashcraft bombs across the United States in a drug-addled frenzy, smuggling a mysterious package; Stacey Moore reluctantly agrees to meet her former lover’s mother who traumatized her in her youth; Dan Eaton returns from a tour in Afghanistan to visit the high school sweetheart…
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And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie Given that the only other Agatha Christie mystery I’ve had the pleasure of reading was Murder on the Orient Express, I can’t really help but compare it to And Then There Were None. While I definitely enjoyed Orient Express, And Then There Were None was a very clear improvement over it, though…
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Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie This is the first book in quite some time that I really find myself struggling to comment on. I definitely enjoyed reading through it, devouring it in a day, in fact, but I’m just as positive that Murder on the Orient Express has some major issues plaguing the story. I guess part…
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Cold Stone and Ivy

by H. Leighton Dickson It’s rare for a story to really stop me in my tracks early on but, with Cold Stone and Ivy, Dickson did something that I was beginning to think I’d never see outside a Kurt Vonnegut story, and she did it in a way that was utterly foreign to me. You…
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon When I first read the title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, it immediately struck me as completely pretentious, or at least hugely pompous, and, surprisingly, the story itself proves to be neither. The plot is fairly simple and straightforward, but the main gimmick is that very adult situations…
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