‘The View from the Cheap Seats’
Neil Gaiman is a master of many genres. Comic books, juvenile fiction, young adult, short stories, novels, fantasy, sci-fi, TV, video games… there seems to be no genre he can’t [...]
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Posted August 10, 2016in Book Review
Posted July 27, 2016in Book Review
‘In the Unlikely Event’
In the year 1951-1952, Judy Blume was a teenager living in Elizabeth, New Jersey, when three separate plane crashes in the city killed a total of 118 people. Her latest [...]
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Posted July 20, 2016in Book Review
‘Lily and the Octopus’
By Steve Rowley Simon & Schuster June 2016 $25.99 305 pages Every pet owner has a story to tell, and “Lily and the Octopus” is the dog book [...]
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Posted July 13, 2016in Book Review
‘Miss Jane’
Brad Watson, author of the 2002 National Book Award finalist “The Heaven of Mercury,” delivers a long-awaited novel for eager fans and newcomers alike. Miss Jane is a unique, beautifully [...]
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Posted July 06, 2016in Book Review
‘Miller’s Valley’
By Anna Quindlen Random House April 5, 2016 $28 272 pages Mary Margaret (Mimi) Miller is a baby boomer growing up in a community where her family has [...]
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Posted June 29, 2016in Book Review
‘City on Fire’
Garth Risk Hallberg’s first novel, “City on Fire,” is a behemoth, weighing in at more than 900 pages. Readers who might be intimidated by the size of this novel [...]
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Posted June 22, 2016in Book Review
‘Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution’
By Nathaniel Philbrick Viking May 10, 2016 Hardcover $30 448 Pages Nathaniel Philbrick presents a detailed examination of George Washington and Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. While Washington [...]
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Posted June 15, 2016in Book Review
‘Hamilton: The Revolution’
I love books as art — thick, heavy books with deckled pages, tons of glossy pictures and a cover that just screams, “Read Me.” The cultural phenomenon that is [...]
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Posted June 08, 2016in Book Review
‘No Baggage’
Months after a tentative recovery from a mental breakdown, Clara decides to dive back into life with gusto. She has a stable office job, her own small apartment, and she [...]
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Posted June 01, 2016in Book Review
‘The Versions of Us’
Laura Barnett’s first novel is an entertaining, thoughtful story about destiny and chance, possibilities and consequences, and roads not taken. With a cohesive style, it spans decades, offering three [...]
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