“And that’s when I understood what Miss Farthingdale had meant… We don’t have a future in English because there’s no such thing. It was just
Rebels of the Kasbah – Book One of the Red Hand Adventures The Rebels of the Kasbah is a tale about the basic human needs
When I reviewed Thatcher Robinson’s first novel, White Ginger, for “Bookin’ with Sunny,” I ended by hoping that Robinson would “write more about this intriguing
God’s Hotel A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine During a conversation about health care being more businesslike than
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy Japan 1941, by Eri Hotta, a Japanese historian, traces the crucial decisions made by the Japanese political and military leadership
The Six O’Clock, One Man’s Dream is Another Man’s . . . Dream The Six O’Clock, a short film by Judy Starkman, is something
I’m not a huge romance reader, but Sussman has the genre nailed, and she does it without a kilt wearing Scotsman or a bodice-clad damsel
Big book (784 pages!), big story. I was initially daunted by its size, but once into it, I couldn’t put it down. The Goldfinch is
The Bartender’s Tale, recalled by his son. Ivan Doig’s novels, like The Bartender’s Tale, circle around themselves, like a helix coiling both inward and out.
Inspector Armand Gamache has now retired, but I can only hope that this is not his last detecting adventure. He has entertained and beguiled me
Although they share many of the same characters and are set in the same small Wyoming town, An Unfinished Life and Bone Fire are two
Norman Mailer’s the Naked and the Dead was on my bedside stack for years. No longer able to avoid it, I read the 1998 50th
Wayne Johnston, writing The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, fictionalizes the life of Joe Smallwood, a real-life twentieth-century Newfoundland politician. In so doing, Johnston presents a
Memories of a Marriage is an intriguing and fascinating, slightly salacious, definitely scandalous, somewhat meandering, but never boring, none too gentle reminiscence of past relationships,
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo The English-speaking world’s fascination—perhaps obsession—with Italy is at least 500 years old. A vast
Many readers adore cozy English village mysteries. From Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories to Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache intrigues (Canadian, and twenty-first century, but still
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