I always admire novels with innovative structural designs, like The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, written by Dominic Smith. Moving back and forth between
INHABITED Torrey House Press fills a very special publishing niche. Their stated mission is to promote “environmental conservation through literature.” Their editors choose books that
THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS When the proprietress of Seaport Books, in La Conner, Washington, recommended Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus, I must
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW Imagine incarceration, not in an isolated prison cell but in a bustling Moscow hotel, not for a week or a month
Daniel James Brown’s Facing the Mountain, A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, is the rich telling of the plight faced
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
Dear Bookin’ with Sunny, my niece is ten years old and crazy about horses. Can you recommend any good horse stories? I can’t afford to
If I were asked to name my favorite murder mystery writer of today, I think I’d choose Louise Penny. Elizabeth George would be a close
David Ignatius writes novels about what he knows best. As a Wall Street Journal reporter for ten years, he covered the Department of Justice, the
Duncan McCallum, one of two major characters in Eliot Pattison’s pre-American Revolutionary War novel, Eye of the Raven, is a Scotsman whose Highland clan was
For anyone who loves nineteenth-century American literature, and I do, April Bernard’s Miss Fuller: A Novel catches the quasi-archaic tone perfectly. Bernard’s characters understand exactly
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
The Dog Stars is a novel about an apocalyptic future where civilization as we know it has thoroughly disintegrated and where the few survivors are
Reading Journal, November 30, 2012 A member of our Clayton Community Library Book Club recommended David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to me quite a few months ago.
Because I was born and raised in Seattle, I look for books by Pacific Northwest authors. Since reading Snow Falling on Cedars, one of my
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
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