One Summer: America, 1927 As advertised in the title, 1927 is the hook that Bill Bryson embeds in his engaging historical perspectives. If you are
Black History Month – I can’t believe I have not upgraded this essay and list of interesting titles since 2013. Today, in our frightening political
THE FERAL DETECTIVE When I read Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 riff on dark detective fiction, Motherless Brooklyn, I was not amused. In fact, I found the
THE PRINCE OF FROGTOWN The Prince of Frogtown is Pulitzer Prize-winning Rick Bragg’s third memoir. The first, All Over But the Shoutin‘, was written in praise
The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation In our cultural memory, the Lewis and Clark expedition dominates the early years of
So Brave, Young and Handsome goes way past the streets of Laredo Leif Enger‘s long-awaited second novel., So Brave, Young and Handsome, takes the reader
Myrna Loy The Only Good Girl in Hollywood is the first formal biography of the popular star famous for the six Thin Man films made
This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to
Imagine Daphne du Maurier, sipping absinthe and smoking pot, while rereading Jane Eyre and rewriting The Turn of the Screw! That is precisely my impression
Steinbeck’s Ghost – Lewis Buzbee’s story marketed to middle readers is equally as satisfying to adults, especially to those who love John Steinbeck. If
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession Soon after I learned
The Bookman’s Tale, A Novel of Obsession Among the many novels speculating about William Shakespeare’s dramatic roots, Charlie Lovett’s The Bookman’s Tale stands as one
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries Not long ago I described a new series for “Bookin’ with Sunny” readers. Poisoned Pen Press is offering British Library
2015 Gift Books for the Guys in Your Life Taken from Neal Ferguson’s reviews for bookinwithsunny.com Bill Bryson’s One Summer, America, 1927 – Anchor Books
Reputations In this dizzy political season, fiction about an artistic facet of political commentary provides a refreshing change from television’s punditry. Reputations, by Colombian author
“Once upon a time – oh, many, many years ago as time is calculated by men – but which was only Yesterday in the
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