MR. g Alan Lightman, author of the celebrated Einstein’s Dreams, has taken his latest fiction, Mr. g, even further, inviting the reader into the imagined
Reviewing the self-published book: After a lot of thought and meetings with both editors and authors, I’ve decided, for the time being, and with a
The Boxcar Children, No more parents – guilt-free! Do you remember Gertrude Chandler Warner‘s book The Boxcar Children? Remembering it because you bought it for
It is exciting when a new book from Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse hits the bookshelves of stores and libraries (though it is a little daunting
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
David Mitchell is a wonder. I’m not even sure where to begin, except to say he is a wonder. Cloud Atlas is unlike any other
Like most of Vonnegut’s novels and nonfiction, Kurt Vonnegut, The Last Interview and Other Conversations is also short on pages, but never on depth of
Reading picture books to children can be done in many ways. If you are a teacher and your charges are very young, there is often
It is February fellow-Americans, and we know, as readers, students, television programmers and booksellers, what that means: It’s Black History Month! What I’ve never understood
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
THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET I have just finished reading David Mitchell‘s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and I am numb.
Last night’s discussion of Stephanie Cowell’s Claude & Camille is exactly why it’s worth the monthly drive down from Reno, Nevada to Clayton, California in order to
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
We all have our own reasons for picking up this or that book. There should be, after all, some return for time spent reading. We
Claude & Camille A Novel of Monet Today, if one hears the name of the artist Claude Monet, a picture of a Japanese bridge crossing
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir & California Missions Sometime in the mid-1950s, the California State Board of Education decided all fourth grade children should learn
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