Book Review of Navajo by Darryl Benally

Book Review of Navajo by Darryl Benally

Navajo  by Darryl Benally   I bought this book as research for my next One-Armed Detective novel as I want to set that novel in Navajo Nation. For those that don’t know, Navajo Nation is in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. This is one man’s story...
Book review of Death of a Messenger by Robert McCaw

Book review of Death of a Messenger by Robert McCaw

Death of a Messenger  by Robert McCaw   Being a police procedural mystery, this story features justice. Have to catch the bad guy, right? And Detective Koa Kãne will not be denied. This is the first of the Koa Kãne Hawaiian Mysteries series. There are currently...
Book Review of Loonshots by Safi Bahcall

Book Review of Loonshots by Safi Bahcall

Loonshots by Safi Bahcall Last quarter for work I read Originals, which was about individual innovators. This quarter I read Loonshots which is about group innovation and what drives it. This is a great read from two perspectives. First, Bahcall tells a lot of stories...
What Makes a Good Novel

What Makes a Good Novel

What Makes a Good Novel “There are bad novels and good novels…but that is the only distinction in which I see any meaning…the only classification of the novel that I can understand is into the interesting and the uninteresting…it is of execution that we are...