by Kristopher | Dec 26, 2019 | Review
From the Booking Desk: When I post my Top Reads list each year, I never actually rank the books and I rarely mention what my very favorite book is for any given year. This is largely because it is never as cut and dried as it might seem. There are so many factors that...
by Kristopher | Dec 16, 2019 | Review
From the Booking Desk: During the holiday season, it is always tough to keep up with blogging work along with all the demands of the day job, family obligations, festive appointments, and just general life. But I don’t want to let the days pass without...
by Kristopher | Dec 12, 2019 | Review
By this point, you have likely read at least one crime novel that uses our culture’s current obsession with true crime podcasts as a storytelling device. It has become clear that we are still at the early stages of this trend and market saturation remains a...
by Kristopher | Dec 10, 2019 | Review
Time travel has always been a popular subject in our culture. From H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine through to current obsessions like Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, this plot device has proven its ability to open up all kinds of possibilities. Back to the Future...
by Kristopher | Dec 3, 2019 | Review
From The Booking Desk: You may be seeing countless lists of favorite 2019 books (including BOLO Books’ own Top Reads of 2019 rundown), but there are still reviews from the year I haven’t yet been able to post. Here are three more for newly released books...
by Kristopher | Nov 26, 2019 | Review
From the Booking Desk: I read so many wonderful books in 2019 that crafting a Top Reads list was especially challenging. As I have always done, I took this task very seriously and really struggled to make sure the list commemorates my favorite books of the year....