About Us | Book Reviewers & Contributors What happens when the bookstore closes? Of course I knew I’d miss handling all those books on a
Bookin’ with Sunny is happy to welcome our newest reviewer, Ann Ronald. Ann needs no introduction to readers in the State of Nevada. Her latest
The Boxcar Children, No more parents – guilt-free! Do you remember Gertrude Chandler Warner‘s book The Boxcar Children? Remembering it because you bought it for
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
The Midwife’s Tale and The Harlot’s Tale Historian Sam Thomas, while researching seventeenth century conflicts between Puritans and Royalists, discovered a will written in 1683.
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World Alison Weir, author of fourteen books on Medieval and Renaissance Britain, has now written about nearly
Off Mike, A Memoir of Talk Radio Michael Krasny always wanted to be a writer like his idols Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow, but other things
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar You may have seen the TV show of the same name, but this Dynasty is
The Girl Before The first mystery to be solved: who is JP Delaney? Before writing any book review, I generally check online to see what
HOW IT ALL BEGAN I can’t say why it has taken me so long to read a Penelope Lively novel. I can say I’m sorry
GOOD ROSIE! As a book reviewer, I have no favorite genre; if a book is well-written, I will unabashedly tout its merit. In the case
Louisiana’s way home is longer than she thinks. Kate DiCamillo’s character Louisana Elefante is not new to her many fans who have read Raymie Nightingale
ANGLE OF REPOSE Because it is a new year doesn’t mean a reviewed book has to be new. If Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose hadn’t
TRESPASS Valerie Martin’s novel, Trespass, does exactly that—the story lines trespass on the public and the private lives of the characters who occupy its pages.
The Overstory A powerful novel of environmental concepts. During the decade before I retired, I often taught “Environmental Literature,” a capstone course for graduating seniors.
Beheld – a novel of the first settlers of the Plymouth Colony and the complex domestic constraints under which the women lived. When
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