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P. J. Lazos

P. J. Lazos

P. J. Lazos is the author of Six Sisters and the recently released novel Oil and Water, an environmental murder mystery about oil spills and green technology. She is an environmental lawyer in Philadelphia. You can read more of her work at her blog Green Life, Blue Water.

Just Mercy

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Bryan Stevenson reminds me of Percy Jackson, the boy in those Rick Riordan novels, walking through life trying to fit in like a normal kid, but sensing something’s up, then discovering he’s the offspring of Poseidon and learning superhuman tricks ...

Dreamland

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Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, is the story of a nation gone berserk, a harrowing, fear-inducing slog through the small towns and backwater alleys of what was once as American as baseball and apple pie. On the front lines are generations of hard-working ...

Rabbit Warrior

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In an era of tell-all books and reality TV, it’s still unnerving for the average person to reveal too much about themselves, their dreams and dramas. The translucent nature of living in a world that thinks it knows you simply because it has a few ...

All the Light We Cannot See

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Combine elegant prose, a riveting tale that alternates between story time, and storyline, a provocative topic, war — unfortunately, always a provocative topic — and the predilection of the human spirit to survive even after losing all that is good in ...

Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy

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Dinty W. Moore’s new book is a droll, delicious exposé of the inner workings of Moore’s mind. Oh, and it’s a writing tutorial as well, although not in the instructional sense — commas here, apostrophes there, watch those dangling participles — but in ...

Dear You

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Dear You, a combination of poetry and memoir by Wade Stevenson, is one of the most exposed, unrelenting, and heart-breaking pieces on longing that I’ve read. Like Flutes and Tomatoes (also reviewed here on bookscover2cover.com), named one of the best ...

A Confederacy of Dunces

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I just finished reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole for the second time. The first time was 30 years ago and I think I appreciated it more this time around because I now realize just how visionary Toole was. The book was written in ...

The Chocolate Assassin

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The ghost of Dashiell Hammett floats between the pages of The Chocolate Assassin by Peter Durantine, a crime noir novel á la Hammett, Raymond Chandler and the rest. Set between two time periods — present day and World War II Germany — The Chocolate ...

Big Magic

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“I told the universe (and anyone who would listen) that I was committed to living a creative life not in order to save the world, not as an act of protest, not to become famous, not to gain entrance to the canon, not to challenge the system, not to ...