Short reviews of State of Wonder, Take the Cannoli, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Wild, State by State and Savages.
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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 →A review of the audiobook version of Watership Down by Richard Adams—one of my rare 5 star reads!!!
Read more →A review of Haruki Murakami's memoir about running and being a novelist, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Read more →Reviews of Wicked by Gregory Maguire, Skipping A Beat by Sarah Pekkanan and Cruising Attitude by Heather Poole.
Read more →A review of Why We Broke Up, which is written by Daniel Handler and illustrated by Maira Kalman.
Read more →A review of Sandra Newman's snarky guide to Western lit, The Western Lit Survival Kit.
Read more →A review of New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's book What I Hate from A to Z.
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 The Fox Inheritance, Faking Smart! and When You Reach Me.
Read more →My review of The Rose Trilogy by Jennifer Donnelly, which offers densely plotting historical fiction that packs in the action, drama and romance.
Read more →Three book reviews of The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall, Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl, and The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell.
Read more →Three mini book reviews of The Happiness Project, What the Dog Saw and Born Standing Up
Read more →A book review of What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty.
Read more →Reviews of Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown, Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
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 →The last book I read for the RIP Challenge, We Have Always Lived In The Castle was author Shirley Jackson's final novel. I suspect you won't forget the narrator Merricat and will drawn into this wonderfully creepy tale.
Read more →A review of Laura Lippman's What the Dead Know.
Read more →A review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel, We Were The Mulvaneys.
Read more →Waiting for Columbus Thomas TrofimukDoubleday, 2009ISBN: 978-0385529136336 pagesGenre: Literary FictionMy Rating: 4 stars Book Description from Shelfari A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Spain claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that led him to break with reality, lie at the center of...
Read more →A book review of Whacked by Jules Asner.
Read more →A review of the second Flavia de Luce book by Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings That Hangman's Bag.
Read more →A review of Liz Allison and Cecil Murphey's beautifully illustrated book on grieving, Words of Comfort For Times of Loss.
Read more →Reviews of two delightful books featuring young girl detectives: What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn and The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.
Read more →A meme concept by That’s A Novel Idea 1 Book you read and/or reviewed: Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like… 2 Words that describe the book: Unusual experiences3 Settings where it took place or characters you met: This book is a collection of 50 different stories intended to impart the basics of what it...
Read more →Title: Water For Elephants Author: Sara GruenISBN: 978-1-56512-560-5Publishing Info: Algonquin Books, 2006Number of Pages: 331Book Category: Fiction Story Overview Jacob Jankowski is 90— or possibly 93. He’s not really sure. When you’re five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I’m twenty-three, you...
Read more →A bit about why you ought to love Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disaster by Jean Shepard as much as I do.
Read more →A collection of short reviews for Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris, Wallflower At the Orgy by Nora Ephron, The Sister by Poppy Adams, Obedience by Will Lavender, and Memoirs of A Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux.
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