Some books just take a while. John Irving’s “In One Person” was the reminder I needed that not every great book is one that you can’t put down. The tale of William “Billy” Abbott, as told by Billy, is one that is almost better to enjoy slowly. It reads like your best friend from prepContinue reading “In One Person”
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Calico Joe
What a great Father’s Day gift this would make. I was hesitant to recommend “Calico Joe” as part of a summer reading list for the magazine I work at, mostly because while I have adored John Grisham’s stories in the past, I was really, really disappointed with one of his more recent efforts, “The Associate.”Continue reading “Calico Joe”
Carry The One
I love summer reading. It puts the “fun” in dysfunctional. Dysfunctional fiction, meet my dysfunctional schedule. That’s summer in a nutshell. I need books that I can either pick up and put down easily without having to think too hard when I revisit them, or books that allow me to finish them in essentially oneContinue reading “Carry The One”
The Lion is In
If you’re looking for a happier ending to “Thelma and Louise,” this is it. Delia Ephron had me hooked with “You’ve Got Mail”—a movie, yes, but the dialogue still kills, years later. When “The Lion is In,” arrived at the library, I was one of the first to snatch it up. And she doesn’t disappoint.Continue reading “The Lion is In”
One Pink Line
Well, here’s your beach book. One Pink Line was the perfect palate cleanser after the harrowing Running the Rift. It’s the story of love gone …wrong? No. Stupid? Maybe. Sydney Shepard is a recent high school graduate who meets the love her life the summer prior to leaving for college. Ethan Reynolds is that love,Continue reading “One Pink Line”
The Snow Child
What a perfect book for a winter’s weekend. “The Snow Child” is the brainchild of debut novelist Eowyn Ivey, a resident of Alaska, where this story is set. Loosely based on an amalgam of fairy tales bearing similar names, the book centers on a childless older couple from the Lower 48 who make the trekContinue reading “The Snow Child”
The Tiger’s Wife
While “The Tiger’s Wife” is rocketing to literary acclaim, for me, it was less of a “Rowr,” and more like a “Purrrrrr…” Novelist Tea Obreht’s story is, as aptly described on a blog post elsewhere, like a painting in a museum. An impressionist painting of a landscape, with one lone soul looking from down fromContinue reading “The Tiger’s Wife”
