The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee’s captivating memoir and history of the world of bookselling. Of all the books I have especially recommended to avid readers
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee’s captivating memoir and history of the world of bookselling. Of all the books I have especially recommended to avid readers
God Bless the Gargoyles is a most unexpected treasure. At first glance, just from its cover, the average grandparent, looking for that perfect children’s book
It’s hard to choose just one bookstore to call our favorite, so here are some choices right up there near the top. We haven’t been everywhere so feel free
First novels can be dicey for any reviewer, but especially when the author is local (East Bay) and the subject is a procedure widely practiced
Is poetry what we really want to read? Today, in our busy lives, when serious blocks of reading time are hard to come by, it
The power of a good picture book is a wondrous thing, especially those pictures books that bring historical figures to life. Author Alan Schroeder and
A heads-up alert for Kristen Iversen: Full Body Burden Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats I cannot encourage you enough to make
I’m happy to welcome Dave Holt as a reviewer this month. Dave read and reviewed Lucille Lang Day’s latest book. Married at Fourteen and published by Heyday
AT EASE IN THE BORROWED WORLD Turn to the last page of At Ease in the Borrowed World and you will find an important piece
When I reviewed Thatcher Robinson’s first novel, White Ginger, for “Bookin’ with Sunny,” I ended by hoping that Robinson would “write more about this intriguing
THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS – Meg Waite Clayton’s novel of a group of young women on the cusp of adulthood. The novel is filled with wisdom
“A revolution is not a dinner party,. . . . .A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
. . . but it is from the heart that I thank all those who helped to get this weblog off the ground. The lion share of
What could be better than sitting down with a really good book and your favorite cup of coffee or tea? Well, okay, maybe that book and
Author Judith Marshall’s first novel, excessively long title and all, won the California Writers Club Jack London Prize. For all you readers, male and female,
This book, a mere 146 pages of text, is jam-packed with wonderfully offbeat information about a variety of American writers and their homes, now designated
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