R.F. Bruce’s The Life and Times of Dinah Marton is the story of a multiple murderer. So let me start by telling you that I’ve never seen a single episode of Dexter, what I’m told is a series about a “good” serial killer. On the other hand, I have seen Downfall, the 2004 movie about…
Well, Curtis Bausse’s amateur sleuth Magali Rousseau has stumbled across trouble again in his new book Perfume Island. She’s currently vacationing with her friend Charlotte on the beautiful tropical island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. One day Magali makes the mistake of speaking with Charlotte by cell phone while Charlotte is driving back…
Let me begin with a disclaimer (or maybe an excuse) – I don’t read a lot of crime/mystery novels, so please read on with that in mind. My experience in this genre is limited to Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, Johnson’s Longmire books, and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels. That’s it. Of course, I’ve also…
The main reason for our trip to Uganda was to visit our son, Joshua, who’s serving with the Peace Corps as a teacher. He’s been working at the St. Noa Mawaggali teachers college in Mityana, so visiting with him was our first priority. Josh is very proud of his time in Uganda working with the…
Sipi Falls is an absolutely beautiful place near the eastern edge of Uganda, right at the northwest corner of the Mt. Elgon national Park. It’s a well known spot for hikers to visit and is famous for the falls, but also for its coffee. We got to stay at the lovely Sipi River Lodge. If…
33 itemsFirst day at Murchison Falls. As we neared the Falls we were greeted by some locals. Of course then there was mom and baby ignoring us. The Murchison Falls Park was incredible. I got to enjoy one of my favorite passtimes – photography. As you can see, most of the time I spent was looking…
To get from the camp to the park we had to take a ferry, and to do that we all had to be in the van no later than 6:30AM! Why? Because the ferry ran once an hour, no matter how many vehicles were waiting. So you did not want to miss it! Finally…
In the afternoon we did something different – a boat ride along the Nile. This way we could see the animals that tended to stay near the water as opposed to the savanna. The most obvious are the hippos. The African Buffalo is also very common along the shore. Of course, it wouldn’t be the…
Atthys Gage is a writer with a lifelong love for myth, magic, and books. His second real job was in a bookstore. As was his third, fourth, fifth and sixth. Eventually, he stopped trying to sell books and started writing them. He has always had a fascination for that cloudy borderline between the normal and…
Let me start with a disclaimer – I’m not all that familiar with recent Young Adult genre fiction. Prior to reading Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker, and The Drowned Cities, the most recently published YA book I’ve read was Spacemen, Go Home by Milton Lesser, the last in the Winston Science Fiction YA series, published in…