“The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly
I confess. I like Lee Child’s Reacher novels. That’s like saying I like pulp fiction or dime novels or soap operas or comic books or
Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost essentially is a memoir of the mind, an intense collection of personal essays about losing oneself intellectually,
Let me preface this review by saying that I’m not a great fan of short stories. That’s a result, I think, of teaching too many
Normally I don’t review books written by good friends and ordinarily ‘Bookin’ with Sunny’ doesn’t include books with footnotes, but we’re making an exception for
Lisa Unger’s latest novel, Heartbroken, reminds me of another one I reviewed for ‘Bookin’with Sunny’ a few months ago. Both Tatiana de Rosnay’s A Secret
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, Who cheer when soldier lads march by Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and
Since its 1883 publication, generations of young adults have fallen in love with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, its hero Jim Hawkins, and its anti-hero
This short blog is a heads-up to the second review of Ellen Feldman’s Next to Love. I figured if the NYT Book Review can review a
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
I admit that although I may not judge a book by its cover, I’m a pushover for a book that just begs to be at
State of Wonder Author: Ann Patchett Meeting Date: July 8th – 7:00 p.m. – Clayton Community Library
You are eighteen years old, the year is 1900 and your mother has died suddenly of a stroke. Your only known relative lives thousands of
A conversation with a friend who is far more religiously astute than I led me to ask him to recommend a book or two about
Southeast Asia and its storied past remain mysterious to me. So I cannot judge the fidelity of Kim Fay’s novel, The Map of Lost Memories;
Another cozy British mystery, another spunky heroine, another assemblage of novels to follow contentedly for years. Frances Brody has added another detective series to my
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