The Eclectic Reader

I enjoyed A.N. Wilson's 2007 novel Winnie and Wolf a great deal.  If you like this book you probably have two characteristics: (1) Y...

Perry Lentz (b. 1943) is a retired Professor of English at Kenyon College.  In 1967 at age 24 he published The Falling Hills   a novel...

I just joined a new organization I started - Book Hoarders anonymous.  I simply have to stop BUYING books and start READING them.  If I ...

The Reverend Francis Kreer has a problem, he no longer believes in God.  However, he doesn’t find this to be too much of a problem in ...

(THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS SPOILERS.  IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT READ POTOK’S THE BOOK OF LIGHTS YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ THE BELOW). ...

This is not my first Jim Thompson novel.  A number of years ago I read The Killer Inside Me , which, along with Brett Easton Ellis’ Amer...