Dear Bookin’ with Sunny, my niece is ten years old and crazy about horses. Can you recommend any good horse stories? I can’t afford to
The subtitle of Greenblatt’s book is How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. It is a great lead-in to this most lively and innovative look at the Bard’s
Stephen Dau has written a most enigmatic and satisfying novel that delivers a story of loss as publicly broad as it is personally intimate. The
Veterans’ Day is a day to not only honor veterans, but also those authors who have written about the wars in which veterans have fought:
Everyone who comes to Bookin’ with Sunny knows that I wholeheartedly support independent bookstores. Several months ago I removed the Amazon button from my website.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING MESSAGE – 2020 First of all, my holiday shopping message is to thank all of you readers who have visited Bookin’ with Sunny
Whenever I read a book in translation, I always wonder whether I’m reading exactly what the author intended. Or is the translator getting in the
Stewart O’Nan’s novel, West of Sunset, mirrors perfectly the frenetic ennui of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and his fiction. West of Sunset tells the story
THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR A simple precis of Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor cannot do justice to the mystique of this very
I just finished reading Lord of Misrule and it proves what I’ve known since I was a kid: nothing beats a good horse story. The characters
Today celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the world’s most beloved Charles Dickens. No book site can let the day pass without at
To kids growing up in the 1950’s, the name Mary Martin meant just one thing: Peter Pan. This was a television re-creation of the 1954
I have two articles from ShelfAwareness that I’d like to share. The first is dated July 5, 2013 and is taken from an article found
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Katharine McMahon fashions a post-World War I London in her novel, The Crimson Rooms. She prefaces her story with a Wilfred Owen poem, written in
THE SKELETON CREW: HOW AMATEUR SLEUTHS ARE SOLVING AMERICA’S COLDEST CASES This book is not to be confused with Skeleton Crew, Stephen King’s 1985 collection
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