All you Southern novelists need to move over and make room for a bright new talent! Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, The Help: A Novel reveals […]
Culinary Reading Delights — A Noncaloric List
Most people love to eat and have cherished memories of meals they’ve shared over the years with friends and family. If you’ve ever read Peter Mayle, Frances Mayes or Carol Drinkwater, you know exactly what I mean. Their memoirs, while not technically in the culinary genre, all describe the planning and execution of those meals in a very personal way.
Book Discussion Series: Bud, Not Buddy
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father — the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Why Aren’t You Reading Richard Montanari?
Richard Montanari, the talented American thriller writer, is even more popular in England and other European countries than he is in the United States. He’s often found […]
Take a ‘classic’ to the beach
(Photo by Sean O’Flaherty courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) Vacation season is upon us and many folks will be going to the beach or just lazing […]