Okay all you John Backderf fans, here’s the book tour schedule for My Friend Dahmer: MY FRIEND DAHMER | BOOK TOUR 2012 Weds., April 4,
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
Reading a good poem is like having an intimate conversation. It engages us in moments of rare beauty, and it doesn’t mask truths that are
Eyes, Stones is the winner of the Academy of American Poets’ 2011 Walt Whitman Award, an honor given to American poets who have not previously published
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
For those of you who like your reading beefy, in other words more than four hundred pages, and likewise find Matthew Pearl’s take on mystery
I’m happy to welcome Dave Holt as a reviewer this month. Dave read and reviewed Lucille Lang Day’s latest book. Married at Fourteen and published by Heyday
Based on a program of Conflict Resolution developed by author Jan Elise Sells, Lost and Found: Healing Troubled Teens in Troubled Times is a title
ALMOST SOMEWHERE You might reasonably expect Almost Somewhere: Twenty-eight Days on the John Muir Trail to be a trail guide, a documentary instruction booklet on how to
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
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East “We [the young men who won the war]
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War Disclaimer: I gladly admit to a generally favorable attitude towards
Edmund Burke, The First Conservative In Edmund Burke, Jesse Norman resuscitates this eighteenth-century philosopher’s relevance for twenty-first century readers, thinkers, and perhaps politicians. Norman, who
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam A common observation is that “victors” write history. To say this
Sometimes the title of a book captures its content perfectly. Such is the case with Haven’s Wake, Ladette Randolph’s novel of modern Mennonite life and
Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World Although Atomic Comics was reviewed by Sunny earlier on this site, as an old-time comics fan, mostly from the
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