“The Possessed,” the first published book-length work of Stanford professor, Elif Batuman, is as much fun as a barrel of monkeys. Well, okay, maybe you
Love is lovelier the second time around. It is also true of books. Case in point, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the May read for
James Rawn has written an emotionally dramatic narrative of the historic facts and heroes surrounding the legal seeds of desegregation in the United States, culminating
When you finish reading Even the Dogs, it’s almost a guarantee that you’ll never look at a homeless or drug-besotted street person in quite the
If you read only one book this year, pick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Rebecca Skloot, an accomplished science and creative nonfiction author has
How can it be that I am as old as I am and have not read Jim Harrison’s fiction before this? All I can say
“He went lights-out somewhere just beyond the Paris-Soissons Road, while the air rained bullets and his company – the survivors, anyway – rolled on through
By the time I had finished reading the forward by the author, Jay Katz, Ph.D., well, okay, Keats, but Keats as Katz, I was hooked.
A BANQUET FOR HUNGRY GHOSTS – NEWS I am a huge fan of Ying Chang Compestine, which makes me happy to republish my updated review
Here’s an update to a favorite book I reviewed fourteen years ago. Our name recognition for American Revolutionary War luminaries may not bring up Thaddeus
Don’t let the “cutesy” cover of Firmin fool you. Sam Savage’s first novel by is just about everything a serious reader, or a reader with
The Magician’s Elephant, another DiCamillo gem. Oh, what a pleasure to recommend a new Kate DiCamillo book. Don’t be fooled by it’s being targeted to
How can a novel make you feel old and nostalgically young at the same time? Pick up Arthur Phillips’ The Song is You and you’ll
RETURN TO SENDER In Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez, popular American novelist whose cultural roots are in the Dominican Republic, has once again turned her depth of
The Vagrants is Yiyun Li’s first novel. Her earlier book, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a collection of short stories. The praise and
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
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