Pepper is a rather down-on-his-luck everyman who can be a little impulsive . His idea of helping out a woman he’s sweet on is to […]
Endearing Psychopaths
Paul, the narrator of The Dinner anticipates an aggravatingly pretentious evening in the company of his famous brother and their wives. Serge has chosen an […]
A Reading Life
If you’re reading a blog about books, you’re probably one of us: a habitual reader. Your life is measured out in pages rather than coffee […]
Losing her Marbles?
When author Ellen Forney got a diagnosis of bipolar, one of the things she considered was the significant number of artists and writers who suffer(ed) […]
Me before You
Louisa’s sister Treena is the golden girl of the family, the first to attend University, even if she did drop out and have a baby. […]
The Immortal Henrietta
It’s taken me a while to pick up The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks because the appeal of reading about a woman’s cells and how […]
Because That’s Where the Money Is
I love the framework J.R. Moehringer uses to tell the story of Willie, the actor, Sutton, the legendary bank robber. It begins with Sutton’s release […]
Pull up a Stool
The son of Two Medicine County bartender and a mom who left when he was a baby, Rusty spent his fist six years in Arizona […]
Vicarious Experience: Reading Memoirs
I often reserve a slew of books all at once after reading reviews or articles, so when I began reading The Rules of the Tunnel: […]
