THE MEMORY OF OLD JACK With the Stay-at-Home admonishment still in place for those of us well-beyond our 60th year, I’ve begun reaching for books
Hollow Kingdom Are you a nature lover? A hiker? A botanist? A stargazer? A bird watcher? If so, please consider Kira Jane Buxton’s debut book,
ONLINE AUTHOR EVENT – BAD INDIANS Today’s pandemic stay-at-home order means many families must deal with online schooling for their children. Back in April 2013,
THE PAINTER OF BATTLES A book worth reading is a book worth talking about, but not always. Arturo Pèrez-Reverte is Spain’s popular author of literary
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY POEM BY POEM The poem: Prognosis An old man alone in a house full of books who spits in the sink
DOG ON IT Please don’t wait for the dog days of summer to read Spencer Quinn’s Dog On It. Based on our present pandemic restrictions,
THE PERFECT HORSE The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts, author of The Eighty Dollar Champion, was the perfect book to review for the Concord Clayton
THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME POEM BY POEM Storm Warnings The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What
A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD Therese Anne Fowler’s latest book, A Good Neighborhood, is one very good novel. The first thing that will catch your attention is
THE GIVER OF STARS, Packhorse librarians If you love books, courageous women, libraries, and horses, you will find Jojo Moyes‘s The Giver of Stars about the
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Is it true that Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad “traces the terrible wounds of slavery,” as Michael Schaub wrote
WHAT IT TAKES What it Takes is a lot of grit to pick-ax your way through today’s entrepreneurial world. I have never reviewed anything that
FREEDOM SOUP Just in time for New Year’s Day celebration is another great picture book from Candlewick Press. Freedom Soup is proof that the publishing
WILD AT HEART, MUSTANGS AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE FIGHTING TO SAVE THEM I reviewed Terri Farley’s Wild at Heart back in August of 2017. This is
ECOLOGY TALE FROM STAMFORD CT The Story of Little Pumpkin and his Pop in Stamford, CT Little Pumpkin: Wow, Pop, they finally took us out
City of Thieves – David Benioff; November 9, 2020; 7:00 PM; Zoom City of Thieves – David Benioff; November 9, 2020; 7:00 PM; Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88378726420
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