Altar of Bones by Philip Carter

I read this book as I waited for my copy of Swan Song to arrive from Alibris.  I wish that I could say that I would recommend it to others, but I can’t.  It wasn’t a total waste of time, but it was one f those books that seems to have been written following an [...]

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Status on Swan Song by McGammon

The small paperback version is out of print nation-wide. It is only available new as a trade paperback. That makes the price about $18.00 a copy. I looked for a used copy at the local used bookstore to no avail. I did, hoever, find and order a copy considerably cheaper from Alibris, even after paying [...]

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On “The Road” Again, With Apologies to Willie and Cormac

One of the responses to my post on Gone South concerned its similiarity to The Road, if any. I guess I introduced the confusion by lumping Gone South and apocalyptic iterature in the same post. I hadn’t thought about any similiarities between the two novels. Both could be considered “picaresque novels,” where characters are on [...]

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Gone South, a novel by Robert McCammon

I had just finished finally reading The Stand all the way through for the first time when I decided that I was definitely in the mood for some post-apocalyptic literature. So I went to the Amazon site and found one of those reading lists they have there and located an interesting book by Robert McCammon [...]

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Organic Egg Versus Inorganic Egg

Ever since I saw the labels in Publix, I have wondered about the difference between between “organic” and “inorganic” eggs.  I have since discovered that all organic eggs are produced by “free-ranging” chickens.  I have not been able to find that eggs laid by chickens who wander are nutritionally better than eggs laid by hens [...]

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Local Environmental Chic

We all make resolutions in one form or another  (with apologies to those who accuse me of making sweeping generalizations).  This year one of my resolutions was to endeavor to buy my food locally or to grow more for my own consumption.  I increased the size of my garden last year.  The result was a really [...]

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