Award-wining author Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming may have been published for middle and young adult readers, but this is a book for every reader,
BROWN GIRL DREAMING, Snapshots in verse The poetry of Brown Girl Dreaming fills pages like Polaroid snapshots, described through the nostalgic lens of a child
MY LAST CONTINENT On one level Midge Raymond’s novel, My Last Continent, shadows the initial attraction and then the developing love between Deb and Keller.
WHAT IT TAKES What it Takes is a lot of grit to pick-ax your way through today’s entrepreneurial world. I have never reviewed anything that
From Laurie R. King, one of the S.F. Bay Area’s favorite mystery writers, comes another exciting stand-alone mystery. King has recreated the Paris of the
Those of you who regularly read my “Bookin’ with Sunny” reviews must be aware of my near obsession with point of view. I’m intrigued by
Behave Creative inspirations bubble from diverse places, but recently I’ve discovered a new authorial font. Many writers seem to be imagining stories of women whose
The first thing I thought of after reading Neal Ferguson’s review of Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash was “Damn, I wish I was back selling books in
Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan – Monday, August 14, 2017 – 7:00 pm Clayton Community Library
THE ART OF MISDIAGNOSIS: SURVIVING MY MOTHER’S SUICIDE In The Art of Misdiagnosis, Gayle Brandeis strives to solve the mystery of her mother’s suicide and make sense
Becoming Jane Eyre is a smashing book and a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the Brontë sisters. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was
SONG YET SUNG “On a grey morning in March 1850, a colored slave named Liz Spocott dreamed of the future. And it was not pleasant.”
I recently reviewed Louise Penny’s Armand Gamaché mystery novel, A Trick of the Light, for ‘Bookin’ with Sunny.’ Because it was the seventh in a series
If you have seen many of my “Bookin’ with Sunny” reviews, you’ll know I prefer books that not only are delightful to read but that
“When deaf get together talk talk all the time. Communication, the universal need. Information. Access. Escape from the prison of silence. Talk, talk, talk.” The
From today’s Shelf Awareness comes great news: “Ruta Sepetys (r.) was awarded Lithuania’s Cross of the Knight of the Order by the president of Lithuania
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