‘Mosquitoland’
“I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am not okay.” Mim has believed this for the past 16 years of her life. Mim lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her [...]
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Posted October 21, 2015in Book Review
Posted October 14, 2015in Book Review
‘Black Glass’
Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves,” has recently reprinted her 1998 publication, “Black Glass.” With these 15 short stories, novelist Fowler [...]
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Posted October 07, 2015in Book Review
‘David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants’
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has developed a following with titles like “The Tipping Point” and “Outliers.” His newest book, “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,” [...]
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Posted September 30, 2015in Book Review
‘Purity’
Jonathan Franzen’s newest novel, “Purity,” is his most contemporary novel to date, dealing with subjects such as student debt, the Internet, hackers/leakers and murder. “Purity” is Franzen’s most worldly novel, [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Book Review
‘The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789’
Joseph Ellis has written a very readable history on the development of the Constitution of the United States, a process he termed the second American Revolution. He notes that the [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Book Review
‘Armada’
Ernest Cline’s first book, “Ready Player One,” became an instant classic in the speculative fiction world, winning awards and praise nearly across the board. His newest novel, “Armada,” takes the [...]
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Posted September 09, 2015in Book Review
‘Pretty Baby’
Mary Kubica follows her debut novel, “The Good Girl,” with this psychological thriller about Heidi Wood. She is a charitable woman helping immigrants and refugees through the Chicago nonprofit for [...]
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Posted September 02, 2015in Book Review
‘Kitchens of the Great Midwest’
J. Ryan Stradal’s new novel is a unique story of family and food. Easily devoured by food lovers and literature lovers alike, the debut has ingredients inspired by Stradal’s Minnesota [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Book Review
‘Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen’
In her 30-plus years in the copy department of The New Yorker, Mary Norris has corrected the work of many of the finest writers of the time, dedicating herself to [...]
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Posted August 19, 2015in Book Review
‘Narrow Road to the Deep North’
Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize winning novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” is a book that explores the atrocities of war. The novel starts out in Melbourne, Australia, [...]
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