I can’t imagine that The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton won’t be on my best of list at the end of the year! Let me preface […]
An Englishman Riffs on Blues, Booze & Race Relations in the Mississippi Delta
Some reviewers compare adventure writer Richard Grant’s Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta to Peter Mayle( A Year in Provence, and Frances […]
Octopuses not Octopi, Please!
Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus: a Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of […]
My Favorite Books of 2015, and Then Some
In 2015, I read some really awesome books and whittled down my list to my top 15 but as the year ended I was compelled […]
Joie de Vivre Alive and Well on Paris Street
In 2002, when she was appointed Paris Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Elaine Sciolino, author of The Only Street in Paris:Life on the Rue […]
Stories You Will Want to read Again
Tired of reading the great epic novel or that science journal? Take a break with this beautiful collection of short stories, The Other Language by Italian […]
Bull Mountain
Georgia mountain people, moonshine, marijuana, gun running-what could go wrong? Bull Mountain by first time novelist, Brian Panowich, will surely provide you with as many questions […]
Kitchens of The Great Midwest
Describing The Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal is not easy. On one hand, it is a book about a girl, Eva, whose destiny was […]
So, You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson’s timely book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed describes modern day public shaming on the Internet. As with his previous book, The Psychopath Test, this one is […]
