I have read and greatly admired all of Susan Vreeland’s novels describing actual artists and their struggles with artistic creation. In particular, I think she
Okay readers, remove the snow chains from the car trunk and replace them with your beach umbrella because, weather-gods willing, summer is just around the
Don’t miss the chance to meet Lake Tahoe author Todd Borg. Here’s his schedule and a thumbs up for his latest, Tahoe Trap. For all you readers
The Book of Nonsense, by David Michael Slater, is not your typical coming of age story. At the heart of the novel is very large
Another Place & Time: Voices from the Carrisa Plains Too many voices from our American past have been lost, especially those of men and women
This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to
While reading my morning online edition of Shelf Awareness, I spotted a nifty quote from Kelly Justice, the owner of Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia.
With this novel Hilary Mantel joins a short list of novelists who have won two Booker Prizes since the competition’s inception in 1969. Bring Up
UNSAID, THE COMMUNICATION OF GRIEF Most of the time, I recognize the intended audience for any particular novel. It is obvious which readers will enjoy
Truthfully, I never ever have wondered what it would be like to delay menopause forever. It certainly never has occurred to me to want to
One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix An author of biographical fiction makes a number of critical decisions. The more that is known
ME BEFORE YOU British novelist Jojo Moyes has written more than a romantic novel with Me Before You. The story takes place in a small
Self-reliant and self-deprecating, innovative and ironic, the intrepid main character of The Martian is stuck alone on Mars. One of six crew members on an
Welcome to Vivienne French and David Hartzheim What a pleasure to introduce you to our two newest book reviewers: Vivienne French Vivienne French was
Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World Although Atomic Comics was reviewed by Sunny earlier on this site, as an old-time comics fan, mostly from the
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
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