The girl walks down to the lake to the spot where she and her father fish. A goose and gander and five goslings are there, making a home for the summer for themselves. The girl is ten. As she approaches the water, she startles the geese. The...
Eternal By Patrick T. Reardon Eternal, puzzle us, puzzle us clockwork apart and put us back together, create/re-create, Eternal, cycle us and puzzle us to ourselves, puzzle us revelations long withheld. Puzzle...
The lakefront parks are closed, as are all the other city parks. Walking on the sidewalks of Edgewater — normally an invigorating exercise — is weird. I find myself scanning ahead of me to judge whether anyone’s coming near me, whether the...
The story of French noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval has been told and retold over the past 150 years in popular entertainment — several historical novels, poems, a biography, a short story, book chapters, a play, two television...
Eliot Pattison’s The King’s Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution is a potboiler stew of brutality, detective work, derring-do, tribal gods, forest lore, London lore, an evil Earl, torture, a Greek- and Latin-spouting tribal leader...
April 3, 2020 By Patrick T. Reardon I learned my ABCs long ago and know the dance inside darkness. Better to stumble and bang and crash in shadows than corner-sit waiting for sun. Mournful either way, yet joy in...
Unknown Man No. 89, published in 1977, is certainly an Elmore Leonard novel. It has all the elements. It’s built around Jack Ryan, a basically good guy, like all of Leonard’s heroes, who gets into something way beyond his control, as when he...
Early on, it was pretty clear that my wife and I — both over that red-alarm age of 60 — are going to be spending basically all our time in our home for what could easily be many months. And one of my first thoughts was….time to read a long book!...
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