The Thanksgiving Visitor My annual reading of Truman Capote’s beloved story, The Thanksgiving Visitor, a tale of the spirit of giving, is my bellwether that
HOW TO CATCH A MOLE How to Catch a Mole is the surprisingly enchanting memoir of a molecatcher. A what, you might ask, molecatcher? Like
DON’T SKIP OUT ON ME Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin is the chosen book for 2019 Nevada Reads. It is the second
JUST BECAUSE How many of us who have children in our lives remember people telling us, “Enjoy them while you can because they grow up
WILD BLUEBERRIES It has been a long time since a memoir has brought me such laughter and warmth. Peter Damm, now a resident of Berkeley,
MAN WITH A SEAGULL ON HIS HEAD The day is June 12, 1976. It is Ray Eccles’ 40th birthday. On that early Saturday morning, he
TAHOE DEEP I almost missed Todd Borg’s latest Owen McKenna Tahoe mystery Tahoe Deep before summer’s end, but it is still pretty hot up here
MY GRANDMA AND ME – Unlearning Otherness one child at a time. Picture books have, for me, become a passion. As much as their stories
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
German voices or our own? This morning I am trying to sort through my emotions as I read about the tightening of the Public Charge
MOSTLY WHITE DEPENDING ON WHO’S ASKING I picked up Mostly White at a trade show, choosing it solely because its publisher is Torrey House Press,
MAGIC OF THE WORLD’S LONELIEST HORSE RACE The Mongol Derby featured in Rough Magic is a one-thousand-kilometer (just over 621 miles) endurance race across the
I WANT MY HAT BACK, JON KLASSEN AND HATS Welcome to the wonderful world of children’s author-illustrator Jon Klassen. Klassen, a Canadian, is both a
AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE Think of marriage as a lovely pond, surrounded by flora and fauna (family and friends). Then think of someone throwing a rather
THE PARIS DIVERSION In the book world, the espionage thriller is the milieu of male readers. In other words, Chris Pavone’s latest, The Paris Diversion,
THE LIBRARY BOOK If I still worked in a bookstore, and should you ask for a good read I would grab a copy of Susan
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