Last week when I was wrapping up my review of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, I saw that he was going to be […] Read More
Tag: Inspiration
I get asked for recommendations for book club selections on a fairly regular basis. Here are 10 (plus a few extra) that I highly recommend. Hopefully some are new to you.
Barbara Kingsolver’s latest tome is a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic David Copperfield. Told in first person, Demon Copperfield escorts readers through his life from the difficulty of getting born to an addicted mother, navigating abusive foster situations, to devising survival routes at any cost.
Towles gives readers another excellent literary read with The Lincoln Highway. Four boys head east on a journey to claim an inheritance and settle some old scores. This one begs to be discussed.
This week is my 10-year anniversary with blogging! In these years, I’ve learned a few things. Mostly, content is hard. In fact, so hard that […] Read More
I never meet Pat Conroy. I’m sure that given the number of book festivals and signings that I’ve followed, there was plenty of opportunity. The […] Read More
I remember vividly a conversation from twelve years ago at a networking event. It was a discussion with a fellow avid reader about how many […] Read More
I don’t read short stories often enough. I wrote about this several years ago when I picked up a collection by Alice Munro. Thunderstruck and other […] Read More
The New Yorker calls Stoner “the Greatest American Novel you’ve never heard of.” Despite my ravings, it took three years for me to convince my book […] Read More
Based on what I’m seeing these days, summer reading guides are almost as popular as year end “best of” lists. With upcoming vacations that could […] Read More