“I’m really unhappy with our intimacy,” he said into the pillow, eyes entirely open. She was sleeping. * In the morning, he risked losing employment. At his des...
The dog’s name was Fred. When I woke up to find Fred dead at the bottom of the stairs, I saw it as a sign that my life needed a change. But in the abstract, I wasn’t sure where or what. After burying...
There is no better time than summer for a fun, sexy beach read. This July, Best Damn recommends newcomer Arial Burnzs vampire novel, Midnight Conquest. The book is filled with great romance, mystery...
The novel opens with twenty-year-old Phoebe visiting a small town in Vermont as its citizens search for missing twelve-year-old Lisa. Fifteen years later, Phoebe is in a relationship with Sam, still-...
When The Hypnotist’s first few chapters are over, we know who committed the opening horrendous murder. We don’t know why it was committed however. In an investigation that takes place over the last f...
In chapter one of KINDRED SPIRITS, by author Sarah Strohmeyer, Lynne Flannery spends the day planning and organizing, meticulously attending to details before relaxing into her Swedish divan on her s...
In Peter Temple’s police procedural, Truth, Inspector Stephen Villani must deal with his personal issues, resurgent problems from his professional past, and the politics of his current position. Vill...
I generally have a difficult time reading memoirs. I’m not partial to non-fiction, but something about the description of this book grabbed my eye, and I decided to give it a go. The book is a short ...
Katrina Marino, mostly just called Kat, is a bartender returning home from work just after 4am. She’s in her twenties, a resourceful and friendly young woman who is making her own way in life....
Twenty years later, Clara wouldn’t remember his face. She wouldn’t remember the slight cleft in his upper lip, or the v-shap...
They say this region was once under the ocean, many millions of years ago, that the rocks were shaped by the tides, and the stones contain the outlines of forgotten sea creatures from the dawn of tim...
If you havent spent most of your life reading American comic books, that may not mean much to you. When I read the news on Twitter Thursday night, it was like taking boat oar to the gut. To be fair, ...
Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn’t care to talk about. One hundred seventy-eight light years from ZaraCorp’s head office on Earth, hundreds of miles from their headquarters on-planet, ...
Potter fans gathered on YouTube this morning to witness an official announcement amid a hoard of rumors surrounding the mysterious Pottermore website that was launched on June 16th. After an online s...
Do you like asking yourself questions? I’m not the type that shoots from the hip so questioning myself is comes naturally. Since I have conservative Christian past, I have a lot of questions for myse...
L.D. Wenzel’s debut novel, Caught in the Winds, chronicles the experiences of a conflicted yet well meaning Morrie, a devout Baptist and transfer student at Bethlehem College. After meeting the beaut...
If time is indeed a “sort of river of passing events” then the study of history is simply the act of mapping out the course of that river, recording the topography, the ebb and the flow, as it meande...
I am boiling inside a kettle with five other people. Our limbs are bound and our intestines and mouths are stuffed with herbs and garlic, but we can still speak. We smell great despite the pain. From...
The First Husband by Laura Dave is a great read. I fell in love with Annie Adams from the get-go. Her humor and constant self-doubt make her human, sweet, infuriating. I had to know what happened to ...
Chester Brown has been one of comics’ most arresting autobiographical cartoonists for a good portion of his career. After producing a cult classic with Ed the Happy Clown, Brown’s next tw...
In recent years, Robert McCammon has written some fine historical fiction. In the 1980s and early 1990s, his name was a staple of supernatural and suspense fiction. With The Five, he returns to what...
For the second challenge, we have another visual prompt…with a caveat. Use the picture below to guide you in your story’s theme or setting, but you must include the following: “and the da...
ELLIS ISLAND, the third novel by author Kate Kerrigan, tells the story of Ellie, an independent Irish lass in the early 20th century. From the time she was a child, Ellie loved John Hogan. He returns...
Everything depends upon the photo of a woman with long red hair and a bright blue coat kissing the man who was later found dead. Alafair Burke’s latest novel, Long Gone, is set in New York City...
One of my favorite things to do is window shop in furniture stores. And of course one of my other favorite things to do is browse in book stores. So imagine my excitement when I visited The West Elm ...
Check out this house made entirely of bookshelves in the Osaka Prefecture area o...
Harry Potter fans around the world are buzzing with the launch of a mysterious new website from bestselling author J.K. Rowling. Fans awoke this morning to Pottermore.com, a “coming soon”...
Last week, we reported that Adam Mansbach‘s “Go the F*** to Sleep” is flying off the shelves. So much in fact, that actor Samuel L. Jackson narrated the book himself. It is currentl...
Best Damn officially has a forum! Visit the forum section and get to know other Best Damn readers. Don’t be shy! Use the “Best Damn Lounge” to chat about anything you would like. Or...
From Quirk Books: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an u...
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