“White Houses”
In this imagined novel, Amy Bloom takes us inside the deep love relationship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and AP reporter, investigator [...]
Circe
Madeline Miller somehow got on the inside of a goddess to write this book about Circe, a nymph and a witch, so [...]
Hero of the Empire
I don’t tend to read history books, but my book group does, so usually I slog my way through them. No slogging [...]
The Underground River
You know how sometimes you find a character you just take to? Someone you wish well and enjoy reading about? I found that [...]
The Fact of a Body
The Fact of A Body: A Murder and a Memoir, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's new book is wonderfully written and evocative down to its pores, bringing [...]
Start Your Own Little Fire
Celeste Ng’s new novel, Little Fires Everywhere, is a book that made me think, and sometimes squirm. As proven by her [...]
The Invention of Wings
Did you like The Secret Life of Bees? I did. So I was delighted to pick up Sue Monk Kidd’s newest book, [...]
Summer Reading
Light is the word here. I enjoy light reading. Not as a steady diet, but it’s refreshing in between heavier stuff. So [...]
Take Me Away
I recently started a book—I won’t tell you yet which one—chosen by a book group. The work was non-fiction, a history/biography kind [...]