Circle Way
Circle Way, A Daughter’s Memoir, A Writer’s Journey Home, a writer’s memoir of her relationship with her writer father and her search for answers to the questions she never asked. How many of us have wished we’d asked more questions of our parents and grandparents? As successful and highly regarded as Bill Hogan was, he […]
Bibliophile, An Illustrated Miscellany
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, who had come to reverse roles, presented me with a book my son-in-law found for me at Booksmith in SF. It’s been a little more than a week, and I […]
Four Seasons in Rome
Four Seasons in Rome – On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World Reportedly, Anthony Doerr took ten years to write his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See. He spent one of those years as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Accompanying him were his […]
My Life in Middlemarch, A second look
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 Life in Middlemarch. I read Mead’s book sometime after that (after I had finally finished George Eliot’s Middlemarch, which was a Clayton Community Library Book Club pick). These comments are […]
Let Me Tell You
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 never before been collected in one volume. Let Me Tell You gives Shirley Jackson fans more than fifty pieces: essays, talks given at various places, stories, vignettes, fragments, personal and […]
Good Prose
The subtitle to Good Prose is The Art of Nonfiction, Stories and advice from a lifetime of writing and editing. Tracy Kidder is an author probably recognized by a majority of readers, but Richard Todd, Kidder’s editor of more than forty years, is just as likely not. I can assure you that after reading “Good Prose” […]