Happy 2016 everyone! I wish you all a healthy and prosperous new year. First, a note. 2015 was a year of changes and more changes in my pe...

I read countless short stories yearly but I rarely feature them on their own. Today I'm highlighting three single shorts that are not on...

Hello everyone! I hope those living in the U.S. will have a fantastic Thanksgiving! And wish you all a wonderful holiday weekend with fam...

I had this post almost ready before the dreaded flu hit me over a week ago now, but it still holds since I've read very little since the...

Today, I would like to extend a big welcome to Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Mañana Means Heaven ,  the story of Bea Franco who for years wa...

Janelle Decker has happy childhood memories of her grandma's house, and even lived there through high school. Now she's back with...

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz Junot Díaz's third book, This Is How You Lose Her , follows his 2008 Pulitzer winning novel...

We wanted more. We knocked the butt ends of our forks against the table, tapped our spoons against our empty bowls; we were hungry. We w...

When Moses descended Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments, he never could have foreseen how one family in Los Angeles in the early tw...

Today, I have three of my ini-mini, short first impressions for you. These are books that I've read, or attempted to read, but didn'...

As I began reading Pasado Perfecto by Leonardo Padura , almost immediately I came across a passage that caught my attention: Se puso lo...