George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides is this month’s selected reading at the Clayton Community Library Book Club. It’s selection did not come easily, post-apocalyptic novels
The Girl on the Road No, this is not a review of Monica Byrne’s fabulous The Girl in the Road (I’m working on that very
Montclair is a vibrant neighborhood at the end of Park Blvd. and the foot of the Oakland Hills in the SF Bay Area. When I
Carol and John Steinbeck, Portrait of a Marriage, Susan Shillinglaw’s ground-breaking portrait of Steinbeck’s first marriage. I’d been on a Steinbeck jag (reviewing Steinbeck’s Ghost, rereading
Recently, my niece in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Facebooked a message to me asking for a few recommendations of books she might like to read while
Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet Once again I’m going to review a novel written about historic figures, one that fictionalizes the characters and
COZY LIGHT COZY NIGHT It is not difficult to review picture books, especially when it is one of Elisa Kleven’s. Cozy Light Cozy Night is
More than four centuries ago, Thomas Nashe published The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) in English and Miguel de Cervantes published Don Quixote (1605) in Spanish. Together,
If I Never Get Back How perfect for this baseball-deficient reviewer to have finished Darryl Brock’s absolutely smashing novel, If I Never Get Back, before
WILD AT HEART, MUSTANGS AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE FIGHTING TO SAVE THEM Wild at Heart should be in the hands of every horse lover, young or
THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS: CHIEF JOSEPH, OLIVER OTIS HOWARD, AND THE NEZ PERCE WAR Who owns history? The uninformed may claim that victors write history.
ADULT BOOKSTORE – WHY POETRY TODAY? I love books, poetry, and bookstores (especially ones with used books). I write poetry, I read poetry, but I
Search for the New Land shook me awake and into the world of Julius Lester’s Black experience. Sometimes my reading habits set me off like
MANJHI MOVES A MOUNTAIN When asked what kind of book I most enjoy reviewing, children’s picture books are right up there near the top. I’m
BOOT LANGUAGE This memoir will remind the reader of other books that recall a blighted, terrifying childhood such as Glass Castle and Educated. Like those
THE BEAUTY AND LONG LIFE OF POETRY – After Rain a Little Girl Straightening Worms The poems in this collection are selected from a lifetime
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