Reading The Tipping Point makes me hate my sociology professor in college. I can’t remember ever being so hooked by a non-fiction read. And if this […] Read More
Tag: Book Reviews
It seems everyone is talking about Todd Burpo’s account of his son Colton’s celestial visit in Heaven is for Real. And before I get started […] Read More
Melanie Benjamin’s Alice I Have Been made quite a splash when it was published in 2010. The reviews that I read were mixed, and so […] Read More
Bloodroot is Amy Greene’s first novel and the first four pages of the paperback version of this national bestseller is packed with praise from the […] Read More
In an attempt to catch up on my reviews, I’m going to have two posts with two books each. Sorry for the short thoughts, but […] Read More
Ever since I read Ana’s review of Lord of the Flies, I’ve been mulling over in my head about how important context is to a […] Read More
The first book that I read by Sue Miller – While I Was Gone – I loved. I even really liked Lost in the Forest. […] Read More
Chris Cleave’s Little Bee has been praised all over the world. But for whatever reason, I had little interest in reading it. Maybe it was […] Read More
John Irving’s latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River, thrusts another unforgettable character into his reader’s imaginations. Like Garp and Owen Meany, Ketchum, a grizzly […] Read More
Appropriately described, Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides makes myth of “suburban middle-American life” (back cover, paperback edition). This brilliant debut novel is from the author […] Read More