‘Fat City’
Leonard Gardner’s “Fat City” is a novel about two boxers from Stockton, California, but to say it’s a novel about boxing would be misleading. Very few of the novel’s 191 [...]
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Posted January 06, 2016in Book Review
Posted December 23, 2015in Book Review
‘Bettyville’
When successful New York magazine and book editor George Hodgman returns to his hometown of Paris, Missouri, for his mother’s 91st birthday, he comes to the heartbreaking realization that his [...]
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Posted December 16, 2015in Book Review
‘Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History’
“From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli” are the beginning words of the Marine Corps Hymn. These words make little sense until you read about the first [...]
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Posted December 09, 2015in Book Review
‘Nimona’
Meet Nimona. She’s a firecracker of shape-shifting energy, so eager to prove herself she ends up causing mayhem and disaster wherever she goes. She wants to shake things up, try [...]
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Posted December 02, 2015in Book Review
‘Brooklyn’
Colm Toibin’s book, “Brooklyn,” is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s when a young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself. Eilis Lacey, [...]
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Posted November 25, 2015in Book Review
‘Don’t Suck, Don’t Die’
“Don’t Suck, Don’t Die” is a beautiful, haunting elegy to a lost friend and fellow musician. Kristen Hersh, frontrunner for the alternative rock band The Throwing Muses and author of [...]
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Posted November 18, 2015in Book Review
‘Delicious!’
Ruth Reichl has worked as a chef, a food writer, restaurant critic, cookbook writer, editor of Gourmet magazine and author of bestselling memoirs. “Delicious!” is her first foray into fiction. [...]
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Posted November 11, 2015in Book Review
‘Marvel and a Wonder’
The grit is palpable in Joe Meno’s “Marvel and a Wonder.” So much so that at times I found myself forgetting that it took place in 1995 on a farm [...]
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Posted November 04, 2015in Book Review
‘The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War’
The timeframe of this book is the World War II years, the main characters are Henry Ford and his son, Edsel Ford, and the story is how the retooling of [...]
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Posted October 28, 2015in Book Review
“Welcome to Night Vale”
“A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Night Vale.” For those [...]
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