Author Archives: Ron
I’ve Seen London, I’ve Seen France … or … Travel Tales that Aren’t
An effective travel read transports me to exotic locales, compels me to tread the road untrodden, and inspires me to learn about unfamiliar purlieus. Travel writing can tell the tale of an author’s journeys, take place in a single spot, or … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, General Fiction, Movies & Television, Nonfiction, Travel
It’s Halloween!
While pondering the frightening stories I’ve read over the years I realized that scary is not the same thing to all people. Some might find terror in a Stephen King novella, a supernatural thriller or an installment in the Laurell … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, Horror, Memoir & Biography, Music, Nonfiction, Society & Politics
It’s Okay, I’m in the Banned
If I were king, cartoon animals would be required to wear trousers. Sure, there would be protests and talk of constitutional violations, yet I would not rest as long as a single pig stuttered sans pantaloons. As my lust for … Continue reading
Filed under Book Lists, Children's Books, Fiction, General Fiction
If it weren’t for those meddling kids and their dog!
I would be rather alarmed if dead bodies crossed my path on a regular basis. And if they did, my first inclination would be to, oh, I don’t know, perhaps call the police and leave it to them to find … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, Mystery & Crime
My Shameful Reading Disorder
This is a bit awkward. You see, usually I wax poetic, espousing pleasurable tomes I’ve enjoyed, hoping that others will savor them as did I. In a veritable love feast of title pushing I attempt to lead the unwashed masses … Continue reading
Filed under Book Lists, Fiction
The One and Only Elvis
Everyone remembers their first concert. A young friend of mine recently attended his here in Everett, and many years from now he will enjoy a special memory of elderly men in scary clown make-up attacking their instruments with bone-crunching riffs. … Continue reading
Filed under Music
May I Be Graphic?
In many facets of life I am a snob, and I embrace this pomposity. Coors Light does not pass my lips nor does popular music assault my ears. And graphic “novels,” oh no no no, graphic novels most certainly do … Continue reading
Filed under Graphic Novels, Young Adult
It Mighta Happened This Way
If one were to peruse a chronological list of the books I’ve read since my teen years, one would witness a noticeable genre shift from science fiction only to a mix of sci-fi and mystery, exploration of general fiction, and later … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, Historical Fiction, Northwest History
Zombies
Lately I can’t seem to pick up a book without finding a zombie or two lurching between the covers. Through no desire of my own, the undead keep turning up at the drop of a … limb. This proliferation of … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, Horror, Humor, Young Adult
Pulp Fiction
Before Al Gore invented the internet, prior to the blitzkrieg of television, way back when talking films were silent and radio was in its infancy, Josephine Average found her daily entertainment in the guise of ten-cent pulp magazines filled with … Continue reading
Filed under Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Suspense & Thriller
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