Because I was born and raised in Seattle, I look for books by Pacific Northwest authors. Since reading Snow Falling on Cedars, one of my
REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD Reading Anne Tyler’s novel, Redhead by the Side of the Road, is rather like paging through an album
ALWAYS HOME The subtitle of Fanny Singer’s Almost Home delineates the content—“A Daughter’s Recipes & Stories.” What begins as a paeon to Fanny Singer’s famous
HOMEGOING — Retrieval of family ties Not since Alex Haley’s Roots have I been so taken by a novel with characters spanning more than three
This is Pulitzer Prize winning Rick Bragg’s third memoir. The first, All Over But the Shoutin’, was written in praise of his mother who mostly
Celine Each of Peter Heller’s three novels sends dissimilar characters in wildly diverse directions. Yet there is a thematic consistency between The Dog Stars and
Looking for a collection of poetry is like trying to figure out what you’re hungry for. When I visited Sundance Books to kick off my
HOME — MORE THAN A HOUSE OR THE PLACE YOU COME FROM “Home” is rather like a jigsaw puzzle (another of my favorite pastimes). It
For all of you reading this review who live in a community that supports a wide variety of book clubs, Schwalbe’s title The End of
Wild, From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a memoir of her 1995 solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail,
David Levithan’s novel, Two Boys Kissing, contains so many layered nuances of gay America in the twenty-first century that I hardly know how to begin
There are times I do not understand the marketing of books. By its hardcover price, $16.99, Two Boys Kissing is marketed for young adults. I
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence Since reading and swooning over Karen Armstrong’s A History of God twenty years ago, I have
“We were archaeologists in our own tomb,” observes Sara Houghteling’s narrator when he and his father come home to Paris in August, 1944. Paris itself
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Virginia Woolf, writing A Room of One’s Own, invented a sister for Shakespeare. Judith Shakespeare,
Read a newspaper lately, in hand or online? War, famine, global warming and now Ebola — it’s no wonder publishers are publishing and readers are
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