Sunny's bookshelf
Sunny's bookshelf photo by Judy Solomon

Online book reviews since 2011, the very best in reviewing – connecting good readers with equally good writers

Fiction

Fiction
Dan Erwine

Night Film

Night Film is a private investigation thriller with touches of the supernatural. P. I. Scott McGrath has already damaged his reputation looking into the affairs of

Read More »
Fiction
Vivienne French

Perfect

It is 1972 in a small English country town. The year is important because it is a leap year and “time was out of joint

Read More »
Art
Ann Ronald

The Art Thief

Noah Charney founded and now directs an international think tank on art crime. The Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA) aids police and

Read More »
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Farm

I read this entire novel in a single day. The Farm, by Tom Rob Smith, is a fascinating psychological mystery thriller that both puzzles and intrigues

Read More »
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Out Stealing Horses

Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson, is what I might describe as a double-layered coming-of-age novel. A sixty-seven-year-old man contemplates the events of his fifteen-year-old

Read More »
Children’s early and middle readers
Sunny Solomon

Steinbeck’s Ghost

  Steinbeck’s Ghost – Lewis Buzbee’s story marketed to middle readers is equally as satisfying to adults, especially to those who love John Steinbeck. If

Read More »
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Expats

Not long ago I enthusiastically reviewed Chris Pavone’s new novel, The Accident, for “Bookin’ with Sunny.” Because I liked The Accident so much, I immediately

Read More »
Fiction
Vivienne French

Care of Wooden Floors

Wiles’ debut novel, Care of Wooden Floors, is laugh-out-loud, tear-making, hysterically funny. It is also mortifyingly funny as it is easy to identify with some

Read More »
Biography
Ann Ronald

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition?” So Robert Louis Stevenson muses in Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan’s new

Read More »
Fiction
David Hartzheim

A Singular Man

A SINGULAR MAN JP Donleavy once described himself as a comfortably burned out volcano. A Singular Man was written when the volcano was still spitting

Read More »
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Thirteenth Tale

Imagine Daphne du Maurier, sipping absinthe and smoking pot, while rereading Jane Eyre and rewriting The Turn of the Screw! That is precisely my impression

Read More »
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Dan Erwine

Neuromancer

It’s been 30 years since the first publication of Neuromancer, the essential cyberpunk novel. A jaundiced response to the 1980’s “morning in America,” cyberpunk is a bastard

Read More »
Biography
Ann Ronald

The Paris Wife, #2

Why do we need yet another book about the life and times of Ernest Hemingway, especially when there are already so many good ones? Because

Read More »
Fiction
David Hartzheim

The Subterraneans

Having finished reading Jack Kerouac’s classic The Subterraneans, one feels as though one has been embraced and punched in the guts at the same time.

Read More »
Fiction
Vivienne French

Tributary

“My childhood among the Saints was no such thing. In a land built on belonging, I did not.” These first two sentences of Barbara Richardson’s

Read More »
Fiction
Sunny Solomon

Little Century

You are eighteen years old, the year is 1900 and your mother has died suddenly of a stroke. Your only known relative lives thousands of

Read More »