Posted July 10, 2013in Book Review
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Quirk Books July 2, 2013 $14.95 174 pages What would happen if one of our greatest writers joined forces with one of the most popular movies ever? The answer is “William Shakespeare’s Star Wars.” This last year has brought us several lighthearted
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Random House June 25, 2013 $27 416 Pages Curtis Sittenfeld’s fourth novel centers on a pair of identical twins whose personalities appear on the surface to have little in common. Daisy and Violet grow up in suburban St. Louis with uncanny psychic
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Liveright Publishing Corp 6/3/2013 $25.95 383 pp Elizabeth Kelly’s new novel tells the story of Riddle James Camperdown and the dawn of the summer of 1972. Twelve-year-old Riddle lives with her father, Camp, and her mother, Greer, on Cape Cod. Camp, a
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Random House March 26, 2013 $30 576 pp. Listening to the audio book of “Volume 3 of the Last Lion,” the biography of Winston Churchill during the war years, I was contemplating the reasons the United States didn’t enter the war when
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang HarperCollins 3/05/12 $15.99 426 pp. Are you a fan of John Steinbeck? If so, you and I have probably read everything he ever wrote. I was hungry for more literature of his style. I have finally found it with Amanda Coplin’s debut
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Little Brown and Co. April 23, 2013 $27 275 pp. A new David Sedaris book is always a cause for celebration. I try to read it slowly, in little bites, to make it last longer. In his newest offering, Sedaris returns to
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Shirley Shiffler Harper Collins Publishers April 2, 2013 $25.99 382 pp. “Reconstructing Amelia” is one of those “I’ll just finish this chapter; OK, just half an hour more; argh!, I can’t put this book down!” page-turners that I love to come across. Kate Baron
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Sally Wisdom Scribner Feb. 19, 2013 $26 299 pp. In 1970, 35-year-old Chicago journalist Bob Hainey died suddenly, leaving behind a wife and two sons, ages 8 and 6. The younger son, Michael, grew up with a nagging sense of emptiness and a wistful
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Fay Jones Blue Rider Press March 7, 2013 $26.95 322 pp. Even if you don’t know Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” by the photographer’s name or the title of her work, you would most likely recognize the famous picture itself. Depicting a worn woman looking
Read More →Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Julie Goodrich Back Bay Books Pub Date: October 16, 2013 $15.99 486 pp. A woman wakes up in a park in the rain with no idea who she is or why she is surrounded by dead bodies. “The Rook,” by Daniel O’Malley, starts off
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