Ra's Spiral Path

Posts

A dragon branch weaving by Sarah Batchelder

Thoughts on weaving, writing, stories, and life.

  • The Informationist: A Thriller

    By Taylor Stevens Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Crown Publishers, 2011 Genres: Thriller, adventure, suspense Series: Vanessa Michael Munroe; 1 ISBN: 9780307717092 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 307 Setting: Mainly set in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, Africa.  Also set in Houston, Texas and Frankfurt, Germany, with brief stints in Ankara, Turkey and Paris, France.… Read more

  • Grave Sight

    By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Berkley Prime Crime Books, c2005, 2006 Genres: Mystery, paranormal mystery Series: Harper Connelly; 1 ISBN: 9780425212899 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 293 (310 including the beginning of Grave Surprise). Setting: Sarne, AR (a fictional town set in the Ozarks) Time period: Around 2005 Plot summary: When… Read more

  • Nobody’s son: notes from an American life

    By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography, memoir Series: Camino del Sol ISBN: 9780816518654 Audience: Adults Number of pages: 189 Setting: Various locations in Mexico and the US,  including Tijuana and San Diego Time period: late 1950s – 1990s Description: Urrea describes key moments of… Read more

  • Sweet and Deadly

    By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: USA: Severn House, 2010 (c1981) Genres: Mystery, suspense ISBN: 9780727869487 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 262 Setting: Lowfield, Mississippi Time period: early 1980s Plot summary: Catherine Linton moved back to the small town where she was raised after her parents died under suspicious circumstances.  When Catherine finds the… Read more

  • The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

    By Brady Udall Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Vintage Contemporaries, c2001, 2002 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780375719189 Audience: Adult, young adult Number of pages: 423 Setting: Various locations in Arizona, including San Carlos Reservation, Globe, and Fort Apache.  Also set in Richland, UT and Stony Run, PA. Time period: Hard to decipher, but it… Read more

  • I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You

    By Bill Green, Ben Peskoe, Will Russell, & Scott Shuffitt; Foreward by Jeff Bridges Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Bloomsbury, 2007 Genre: Non-fiction, social science, popular culture ISBN: 9781596912465 Intended audience: Achievers Number of pages: 237 Setting: USA, mostly California but also Louisville, Kentucky Time period: Contemporary Description: This book is a must read… Read more