"Little Sister" by Barbara Gowdy is definitely one of the weirdest novels I’ve read lately.
Rose Bowan owns and runs the local movie hall with her mother. She has a placid, uneventful life and...
"Mrs. Fletcher" by Tom Perrotta.
Poor Mrs. Fletcher. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her only son goes off to college, she's feeling a bit lost and lonely. Mrs. Fletcher runs into...
The summer reading round-up continues with "Grief Cottage" by Gail Godwin. Eleven-year-old Marcus goes to live with his reclusive Aunt Charlotte after the sudden death of his mother. Aunt Charlotte...
“Summertime, and the reading is easy...”
And easy the reading was, in bounteous sunlight with no worries about getting up early the next day for work. Here are my thoughts on just a few of the books...
Journalist Michael Finkel's book "The Stranger in the Woods" is subtitled "The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit," which I expected to be a bit of hyperbole. People unplug for days and even...
"Rabbit Cake" went from being a book that I almost didn't read to one I'm pestering my friends to give a try.
While I was not initially intrigued by the story – it centers around a young and precocious...
Disturbing. Compelling. Upsetting. Masterful.
I could go on and on about how amazing this novel, "So Much Pretty" by Cara Hoffman, is. The plot is deceptively simple. Wendy White, a cheerful, well-liked...
Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s new cookbook "The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem" is a delightful mélange of recipes, essays, history and photographs celebrating Harlem, a neighborhood...
Thirteen year-old Julie was abducted from her home at knifepoint. She was never found and there were no suspects for her abductor. Police suspected that Julie knew her abductor, because there were also...
Nina MacLaughlin’s engaging memoir about her decision to quit journalism and become a carpenter is honest, informative and thought provoking. "Hammer Head: The Making of Carpenter" is MacLaughlin's account...
In "The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper," sixty-nine year old widower Arthur Pepper is reluctantly sorting through his late wife Miriam’s belongings and happens upon a hidden charm bracelet, jewelry...
Good luck forgetting "All Things Cease to Appear" after you read it.
Elizabeth Brundage’s tale of two interrelated families who first intersect in the 1970s is compulsively readable and almost hypnotic...
