

Bound for Gold
Bound for Gold, William Martin’s sixth Peter Fallon novel. This one is a West Coast page-turner as tasty as it is mysterious, both in the
Bound for Gold, William Martin’s sixth Peter Fallon novel. This one is a West Coast page-turner as tasty as it is mysterious, both in the
Can the Bookish Life be enough for Nina Hill? Happy New Year, dear readers, and what better way to start the new year than to
THE GIVER OF STARS, Packhorse librarians If you love books, courageous women, libraries, and horses, you will find Jojo Moyes‘s The Giver of Stars about the
The Thanksgiving Visitor My annual reading of Truman Capote’s beloved story, The Thanksgiving Visitor, a tale of the spirit of giving, is my bellwether that
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
THE LIBRARY BOOK Susan Orlean’s The Library Book couples a moving meditation on the author’s part with the solid research she has conducted in archives
BOOKS FOR LIVING Will Schwalbe, the author of The End of Your Life Book Club, has once again given life to his love of books
BIBLIOPHILE, AN ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY I was just about finished with a book review for the ClaytonPioneer when I went through hip replacement and my daughter,
THE BOOKSELLER Ordinarily, I distrust a narrative strategy such as the one Cynthia Swanson employs for her novel, The Bookseller. The protagonist, co-owner of a
The Book of Speculation As Sunny’s regular readers must have surmised by now, I’m not much of a fan of science fiction and I never
My Life in Middlemarch – Looking back on reading a classic Back in August 2015, Bookin’ with Sunny published Ann Ronald’s review of Rebecca Mead’s My
Gutenberg’s Apprentice While it is difficult to overemphasize the importance of moveable type and Gutenberg’s impact on the creation of the modern world, letterpress printing
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
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays and Other Writings Two of Shirley Jackson’s children have selected a miscellany of their mother’s writings that have
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
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II Did you ever wonder how WW II soldiers filled up the
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