I was back down in the Bay Area this week–book club in Clayton, prose critique group in Walnut Creek and grandkids in SF. While waiting to
I am a bit late on letting my readers know about this project: The Date of Disappearance M. Allen Cunningham, better known as Mark Cunningham
I have just posted a review of Madeleine E. Robins Point of Honour and am happy to announce that the third book in the Sarah
“Boy crazy!” That was an epithet 1950’s moms used to upbraid their daughters as they worked through their difficult teenage stages. Few earned the moniker
Robert Graysmith is a San Francisco writer best known for his true-crime accounts of serial killers: Zodiac, Unabomber, and Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax
Best-selling novelist Anita Shreve spent three years in Kenya in the late 1970s. While there, she worked as a journalist, and she even climbed Mount
Commerce, a 220-ton brig, set sail from Connecticut in 1815. Captained by James Riley, and manned by two experienced mates, four able seamen, four ordinary
Today, we just published two new reviews by Ann Ronald. One is on Jack Todd’s Sun Going Down and the other is on Dorothy Wickenden’s
Claude & Camille A Novel of Monet Today, if one hears the name of the artist Claude Monet, a picture of a Japanese bridge crossing
A STRONG WEST WIND A Strong West Wind was first reviewed at Bookin’ with Sunny by Ann Ronald in early December of 2012. I was
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
Queen Hereafter – A Novel of Margaret of Scotland Early Scottish history has always seemed murky to me, with a great deal of violence and
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power If you enjoy watching “The Rachel Maddow Show” each evening on MSNBC (and I do), you will relish
ME BEFORE YOU British novelist Jojo Moyes has written more than a romantic novel with Me Before You. The story takes place in a small
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
……..I bet you thought they would include “snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes.” Nope, a few of my favorite things? Heyday Books and Trains!
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