Short reviews of Broken Harbor, So Cold The River, I Am America (And So Can You), Losing Clementine, and I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD.
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A collection of short book reviews, including: When Will There Be Good News; Started Early, Took My Dog; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat; Girl In Translation; Curtains; and Game Change.
Read more →Mini reviews of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, The 500 by Matthew Quirk and The Taker by Alma Katsu.
Read more →Mini reviews of three great reads: 11/22/63 by Stephen King, Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood and Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon.
Read more →Mini Reviews of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, The Book of Joe and Everything Is Wrong With Me.
Read more →Mini-Reviews of three very different books: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer.
Read more →An audibook review of Jon Krakauer's thought-provoking and intense Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman.
Read more →Mini book reviews of three different books: The Bucolic Plague by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson and Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg.
Read more →A book review of Stephen King's Under the Dome written as a news story.
Read more →Book review of Jeff Klima's humorous (but gross, graphic and profane) memoir "The Dead Janitors Club." I happened to love it ... but it definitely isn't for everyone.
Read more →Book reviews of two ghost-themed books: Laura Kasischke's "The Raising" and Laura Brodie's "The Widow's Season." I liked one a lot more than the other ... find out why!
Read more →A review of Gary Klaben's "Changing the Conversation," a book about financial planning for families that I found more philosophical than practical.
Read more →A review of Lee Kravitz's memoir, ...unfinished business.
Read more →A review of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind--an uplifting and inspiring story that warmed my heart.
Read more →Reviews of three dystopic tales, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and In A Perfect World by Laura Kasischke.
Read more →Why I love Into Thin Air by John Krakauer so much.
Read more →Title: Lit Author: Mary KarrPublishing Info: Harper Collins, 2009Number of Pages: 386Book Category: Memoir Book Overview Lit is Mary Karr’s third memoir. Her first, The Liar’s Club, chronicled her toxic childhood in Texas and her volatile relationship with her artistic, raging, alcoholic mother and sad, distant, drunken father. Her second memoir, Cherry, covered her...
Read more →A bit about the wonderful memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel.
Read more →Title: Salty Like BloodAuthor: Harry Kraus, M.D.ISBN: 978-1-4165-7789-8Publishing Info: Howard Books, March 2009Book Specs: 338 pagesBook Category: Christian Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Story Overview Dr. David Conners has a good life — a successful medical practice, a stable marriage (although it has had its ups and downs in the past) and a young daughter. But...
Read more →Books about difficult childhoods.
Read more →Some books on writing that I think are worthwhile.
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