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Review: Lies and Weddings , by Kevin Kwan by Rich Horton Kevin Kwan is likely best known for his first novel, Crazy Rich Asians (2013), whic...

Old Bestseller Review: The Love of Monsieur , by George Gibbs by Rich Horton My original focus on this blog was popular fiction of the first...

Two Classic Movies: My Man Godfrey and The River by Rich Horton Here's an informal look at two movies I watched recently, both classics...

Here's another review of John Brunner, who is really one of my favorite SF writers of his era, but oddly more due to his less well-known...

A Royal Pain , by Rhys Bowen a review by Rich Horton I came across this book in an antique store near Rolla, MO, a few weeks ago. It looked ...

Here's something I wrote back in 2006 about the concluding novel in John Barnes' Thousand Cultures series. Barnes' work has neve...

I wrote the review below back in 2004. I should add some detail -- Matthew Hughes (born in England but in Canada from age 5) has continued t...