I was on vacation last week and as usual for a beach vacation, I read a lot. Two mysteries, two novels, one epistolary volume, and one non-fiction, all so very different one from the other, and all good. I started the week with Penelope’s Way by Blanche Howard. A seventy-year old woman decides it is [...]
Continue Reading →Chihuahua Karma by Debby Rice is a great feel-good read that made me laugh out loud, tugged at my heart-strings, and left me smiling. Available only as an E-book, Rice’s lively, incisive, and addictive writing makes buying an E-reader a good idea (alongside previously reviewed E-books like Minks Rises by Eric Almeida and The View [...]
Continue Reading →Comfort and Joy by India Knight is a thoroughly delightful foray into one woman’s celebration of Christmas, secular and loving it! Londoner Clara Dunphy is wacky about Christmas and love and sex but when it comes to her children, her family, and her food, she is completely and sanely and inspirationally committed to giving the [...]
Continue Reading →Tolstoy Lied. That is the name of a book a good friend lent to me: “You might be interested in this one,” she noted wryly. Despite its irksome title, Tolstoy Lied by Rachel Kadish is a lovely, witty, and insightful novel of manners. If, that is, manners are even possible within the cutthroat atmosphere of [...]
Continue Reading →What our books do when we are not there: they dance to cool music. Love this video!
Continue Reading →Even if you are not a dog person, you will be a Julie Klam person. Reading about her life through the lens of her relationships with the Boston Terriers she has rescued over the years, I became Klam’s fan, then grew to feel as if she were an old friend, and by the end of [...]
Continue Reading →The California Roll by John Vorhaus is a hilarious send-up of con men and the women who chase them, cons and cops alike. Vorhaus’ narrator, Radar Hoverland (he swears it’s his real name — but is it?) has been on the game since childhood when he conned his old granny out of multiple servings of [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday I chose humor and read Blank by Noah Tall, chosen randomly by my oldest son and proving the point made by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink whichBlank (“a mindless parody“) messes with: sometimes our snap judgments are right on — and sometimes they’re not (Blank‘s point). This book is pretty darn funny, occasionally stupid-silly, and rarely (but [...]
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