Reviews

The Dog Stars has been in my stack for months and months. I picked it up once, read about 15 pages and thought “this is TOO weird.” But then.

Haruf once again sets his story—this slice of life—in Holt, Colorado, a fictional town on the high plains.  Dad and Mary Lewis have been married for over 50 years.  The book chronicles the last few months of Da

Warm Bodies is a beautiful  contemporary romance such as we have seen in Romeo and Juliet.

I didn’t expect to love the book Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, by Anne Enright.  The silly, cutesy title and cover photo inclined me to shrug my shoulders and hide what I was reading in public.  And the first essay was a strange, confusing thing that I st

Just out of college, Clay Jannon becomes a Web designer for a small business, then quickly loses his job to the sands of economic collapse. Unemployed and without much experience, he accepts a job as the night clerk for a bookstore—an unusual one with stacks upon stacks of books and late night visitors exchanging one hefty tomb for another.

The first in David Weber’s marvelous Honor Harrington series, On Basilisk Station is a paean to competence.  Royal Manticoran Nav

Deraniyagala, a Sri Lankan by birth and a Londoner for college and beyond, was vacationing with her parents, her husband, and her two small children in Sri Lanka for Christmas in 2004, as was their family tradition. They were staying in a hotel not too far from the water.

Rules for David:  If the bathroom door is closed, knock!  Say “thank you” when someone gives you a present (even if you don’t like it).  No toys in the fish tank.  These are just a few of the rules that twelve year old Catherine has written for her brother David who has autism to he

Orphan Train is a story about two different people whose lives are connected in so many ways, yet they are separated in age by about 75 years.