THE BOOKSELLER A fun part of running a book review website is publishing two reviews of the same book. I was far more ambivalent about
THE LIBRARY BOOK If I still worked in a bookstore, and should you ask for a good read I would grab a copy of Susan
MAGIC OF THE WORLD’S LONELIEST HORSE RACE The Mongol Derby featured in Rough Magic is a one-thousand-kilometer (just over 621 miles) endurance race across the
German voices or our own? This morning I am trying to sort through my emotions as I read about the tightening of the Public Charge
WILD BLUEBERRIES It has been a long time since a memoir has brought me such laughter and warmth. Peter Damm, now a resident of Berkeley,
MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE The Poem: February by Margaret Atwood Winter and time to eat fat and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,
The Light of Evening, A Brief Life of Jack Foley – to be read nonstop, to cheat evening of its sleep, to learn the breadth
About Us | Book Reviewers & Contributors What happens when the bookstore closes? Of course I knew I’d miss handling all those books on a
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,
The Thanksgiving Visitor My annual reading of Truman Capote’s beloved story, The Thanksgiving Visitor, a tale of the spirit of giving, is my bellwether that
BAKING CAKES IN KIGALI Kigali, and baking cakes? I could tell it was a place in Africa from its cover, but until I turned the
The complete title of this amazing book is To Engineer is Human, The Role of Failure in Successful Design. I’m pretty sure all of you
I am a sucker for books about books, so when my son-in-law gave me a copy of Jacques Bonnet’s Phantoms on the Bookshelves for Christmas
Mrs. Letsaveit, or “a few recipes embedded in lots of conversation” is going to be my exception to the rule of never reviewing (me, not
Jincy Willet is a very funny lady. That may be presumptuous, but after reading Amy Falls Down, I don’t think I’m far off the mark.
January 3, 2014 In an effort to avoid completing two book reviews, I picked up another book to distract me. This time it was an
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