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,…

The Art of Rebellion and/or Conforming.

Book Review for “The Dream Life of Sukhanov” by Olga Grushin. Summary: “At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want. Nearly twenty-five years ago, he traded his precarious …

Review: Solito by Javier Zamora

I first learned about this book when I was working with a grant to the state of Rhode Island to support a statewide read along of this book ( The woman I spoke with at Rhode Island Center for the B…

The Last Battle Mystery!

Book Review for “Towards Zero” by Agatha Christie. Summary: “What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life …

For the Love of Syntax.

Book Review for “Confessions of a Grammar Queen” by Eliza Knight. Summary: “Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO i…