My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead pretends to be writing a riff on her own life as it echoes various Middlemarch themes, but in truth
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
A note to my fellow book club members and others who have books they have cleverly avoided reading: We hearty readers of the Clayton Community
Duncan McCallum, one of two major characters in Eliot Pattison’s pre-American Revolutionary War novel, Eye of the Raven, is a Scotsman whose Highland clan was
Hollow Kingdom Are you a nature lover? A hiker? A botanist? A stargazer? A bird watcher? If so, please consider Kira Jane Buxton’s debut book,
A SECRET SISTERHOOD Almost every page of Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney’s book, A Secret Sisterhood, inversely took me back to my college studies.
Normally I don’t review books written by good friends and ordinarily ‘Bookin’ with Sunny’ doesn’t include books with footnotes, but we’re making an exception for
A pattern is emerging. I seem to be revisiting authors I’ve already reviewed for “Bookin’ with Sunny.” Now I’m going back to their earlier books
OLD BOYS For those of us who relish old-fashioned, sophisticated spy stories in the Ian Fleming or John LeCarre mode, Charles McCarry’s novels are always
New Review Category: Books for the Curious Reader Books for whom? The curious reader. Those readers who might find a single book an invitation to
The Thanksgiving Visitor My annual reading of Truman Capote’s beloved story, The Thanksgiving Visitor, a tale of the spirit of giving, is my bellwether that
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
A Cafecito Story Heads up, readers! Summer is gone, fall is still falling, goblins have spooked, the really big bird has been eaten, and then
New Favorites: Diane’s Books Greenwich, CT and Booksy Galore, Pound Ridge, NY Word has it that independent bookstores are on the rise. Just came back
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE The other day I was at my bookshelves looking for a particular William Carlos Williams book of poetry when I spotted
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