Wow! What a roller coaster ride! Clinging to the painted cars, looping up and down on contorted rails, twisting and turning, are the hedge fund
I have read and greatly admired all of Susan Vreeland’s novels describing actual artists and their struggles with artistic creation. In particular, I think she
The Baker’s Daughter is about as complex a novel as the title seems simple. The daughter is Elsie Schmidt of Garmisch, Germany. The novel’s Prologue
For those readers who love historical fiction and especially stories from Regency England, look no further. Madeleine E. Robins has written in Point of Honour
The Long Song, A Novel of Haitian Slavery The Long Song, author Andrea Levy‘s fifth book is not to be missed. Levy, the daughter of
These is My Words has been out since 2008, so my wholehearted two thumbs up for this book may seem a day late and a
Can you remember when you first read Alice in Wonderland? Ever wonder about Alice? Or how Mr. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) came to write such
Becoming Jane Eyre is a smashing book and a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the Brontë sisters. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was
Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys’ debut novel is not to be missed. It’s been published as a young adult novel, but it is a
Paula McLain has written a rather spectacular piece of historical fiction in her rendering of Hadley Richardson’s marriage to American literary legend Ernest Hemingway. The
The Devil’s Company – History, mystery, thrills and chills in 1722 London. I can’t imagine why it’s taken me so long to climb on the
“Don’t be afraid. My telling can’t hurt you in spite of what I have done…” This is Nobel winner Morrison at her visceral and poetic
The Monsters of Templeton and everything else in between. This is reading bliss. When I wrote this review in November of 2008, for the Clayton
SONG YET SUNG “On a grey morning in March 1850, a colored slave named Liz Spocott dreamed of the future. And it was not pleasant.”
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