Although they share many of the same characters and are set in the same small Wyoming town, An Unfinished Life and Bone Fire are two
A rollicking good read! That’s how I would describe Mark S. Bacon’s novel, Death in Nostalgia City. It’s a page turner, a fast-paced mystery that
Old Glory, A Voyage Down the Mississippi Who in his right mind would navigate a sixteen-foot, fifteen-horsepower outboard aluminum motorboat down the Mississippi from the
Relativity A major reason why I so enjoy my involvement with “Bookin’ with Sunny” centers on the books themselves. Not only do I get to
COYOTE AMERICA, OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM’S MOURNFUL HOWL Although Coyote America is about the common American coyote, the title suggests, and its content delivers, a complex view
Washington Black – Esi Edugyan’s tale of a Barbados youth taken by an inventor/scientist to be his slave, only to find that the boy will
It is never too late to begin or to continue reading Kurt Vonnegut, especially Armageddon In Retrospect. One of the marvels about Kurt Vonnegut is
I have just posted Ann Ronald’s review of The Girl on the Train, a thriller mystery by British author Paula Hawkins. It reminded me of another piece
The subtitle of Greenblatt’s book is How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. It is a great lead-in to this most lively and innovative look at the Bard’s
The best reason to belong to the American Academy of Poets is their periodic delivery of books containing the work of new and rising poets. It is both
Alessandro Giuliani, athletic, well muscled, handsome, professor of aesthetics, and fictional protagonist of Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, declares that fighting in
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Flight Patterns – Author Karen White turns Southern Gothic in a new and original direction. When I was about a quarter of the way through reading Karen
The Various Flavors of Coffee Sort of a silly name for this sprawling, romantic, historical, blockbuster of a novel. The Various Flavors of Coffee is
Keith Devlin, of Stanford University and known to many as NPR’s The Math Guy, has written a witty, enlightening, engaging and utterly accessible book about
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