Book review: This Ruby is a gem

This the third of Kate Atkinson’s books I’ve read and as in reading the others (Life After Life and A … Continue reading Book review: This Ruby is a gem

Book Report: Why you want to catch flies, vinegar girl?

I’ve been reading and enjoying Anne Tyler’s books for decades, beginning with Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and The Accidental … Continue reading Book Report: Why you want to catch flies, vinegar girl?

There are lots of reasons to recommend Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible to you. First, it is a modern retelling of Jane … Continue reading Book review: Oh, that Mr. Darcy…

In Delia Ephron’s latest, Siracusa, two couples vacation together in Sicily where their marriages as well as their friendship unravel … Continue reading Book review: Whom do you trust?

Both these books feature young women, both focused on their successful careers, but with personal lives that are … Continue reading Some lighter reading, now and then…

Are you an Anna Quindlen fan? I am. Her fiction and nonfiction both ring true for me. Her latest, Miller’s … Continue reading A river runs through Miller’s Valley

That’s the question author Bill Dedman tries to answer with Paul Clark Newell, Jr, a shirt-tail relative of the woman … Continue reading Was she crazy or merely peculiar?

The Japanese Lover: A Novel Fans of Isabel Allende will enjoy this sweeping story of forbidden love. Two women meet … Continue reading Love in the time of prejudice

Franklin, Eleanor, Sara, Lucy, Earl, Missy, Lorena, Daisy, and Joe. This was a very crowded and complicated marriage. FDR and … Continue reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s crowded marriage