Periodically, my book club will have members submit their top 10 all time favorite books. We did this recently, and as a result of the […] Read More
Tag: literary fiction
“A good book… leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul,” says Dorrigo Evans, the lead […] Read More
Scott and I checked an item off our bucket list this year by seeing all eight Academy Award Best Picture nominations before awards night (which is […] Read More
Written by the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, frenchman Patrick Modiano, this brief novel Missing Person takes the reader along the narrator’s […] Read More
I love everyone’s year end “Best of” lists, so here’s mine – the three best reads from 2014. Favorite contemporary fiction read from this year: We Are All […] Read More
I’ve been lying for the last ten years or so – however long those quizzes have been making their way around the internet that ask […] Read More
Wally Lamb’s We Are Water is the fourth of his novels that I’ve read, and while I’d put it third behind The Hour I First […] Read More
How does your book club pick the next book? My book club has a tried and true way that increases the chances of only reading […] Read More
He calls it his most important work. The Book of Marie by Terry Kay is an epistolary novel that spans fifty years of Cole Bishop’s […] Read More
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee This was a book club selection that I nominated. It won the Booker Prize in 1999, and four years later Coetzee won […] Read More