Not Always Clowning Around.

Book Review for “700 Sundays” by Billy Crystal. Summary: “A memoir based on the Emmy-nominated actor’s Broadway play is a humorous and poignant portrayal of his youth that describes his…

Love an African Adventure?

Book Review for “Mrs. Pollifax on Safari” by Dorothy Gilman. Summary: “Now the incredible Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on a safari to smoke out a very clever international assassin whose next …

#ShortStorySunday First Impressions, Secondary Consequences.

Book Review for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” by Muriel Spark. Summary: “She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. An…

Sailing Towards Her Sunset.

Book Review for “The Last Voyage of Mrs. Henry Parker” by Joanna Nell. Summary: “As the wife of retired ship’s doctor Dr Henry Parker, Evelyn is living out her twilight years aboard the Golde…

Hm… maybe I should visit again?

Book Review for “Apple of My Eye” by Helene Hanff. Summary: “A celebration of her life-long love for New York, Hanff embarked on this project as an assignment, and realized she had not been t…

A Palm, a Balm, or a Bomb?

Book Review for “A Palm for Mrs Pollifax” by Dorothy Gilman (Mrs Pollifax #4). Summary: “”What we are looking for – aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs. Pollifax – is evil …

TCL’s #CCSpin 43 #BookReview – Scout-ing for Justice.

Book Review for “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Summary: “‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ A lawyer’s advice …

Review: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

This was a perfect book to build upon the issues discussed in As a Jew by Sarah Hurwitz. Horn explores antisemitism in various forms, most notably the idea that people are comfortable with the idea…

Book Review: You Sexy Thing By Cat Rambo

Review: Playground by Richard Powers

This was my first book by Richard Powers, though I’ve been wanting to read The Overstory for a while, which won a Pulitzer Prize and came recommended by a former work friend. This book, Playground,…