Bookin’ with Sunny may not have a cache of science fiction reviewers to draw on, but with that caveat, let me tell you that Kraken
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
Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule is a novel about horse racing at a small time track in West Virginia, where worn-out horses, trainers, jockeys, grooms
There are so many reasons to recommend C. J. Box and his Joe Pickett novels it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with
Joseph O’Connor has written three screenplays and four plays for the theatre, so it is not a surprise that his seventh novel, Ghost Light finds it
Friendly Fallout 1953 is a curious combination of fiction and fact, a literary effort to bring together, under one cover, the topics of nuclear weapons,
The Year of the Hare is a perfect winter book. Get the fire going, pull up a comfy chair, a good reading lamp, a table
MR. CHARTWELL Rebecca Hunt‘s debut novel is one that holds a weird distinction for me: It is a story that repels and compels at 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
Hillenbrand is back with another gut wrenching, heart-stopping story of stamina, resilience and survival; but unlike her earlier bestseller, “Seabiscuit,” “Unbroken” tells the story of
First novels can be dicey for any reviewer, but especially when the author is local (East Bay) and the subject is a procedure widely practiced
It’s not often that an early-to-middle-reader book can charm and educate in one fell swoop, but that is exactly what Allyson Beatrice has accomplished in
THE WOMAN WHO SHOT MUSSOLINI Violet Gibson aims her pistol at Mussolini’s head, and Frances Stonor Saunders aims her ability to capture a rare historical
BAKING CAKES IN KIGALI Kigali, and baking cakes? I could tell it was a place in Africa from its cover, but until I turned the
For all you Sara Gruen fans who have been patiently waiting for her first novel since Water for Elephants, wait no longer. Ape House is
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