HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE OTHER PEOPLE IN NORMAN ROCKWELL’S PAINTINGS By Jane Allen Petrick Jane Allen Petrick has written a wonderful book about Norman Rockwell, the artist, and his work. It focuses on the “invisible people” in his painting, the non-white… Read More ›
CITY (1952), CLIFFORD SIMAK City is a 1952 science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak. The book is episodic with eight or nine (depending on which version you read) short stories that have “bridges” between episodes. Version of the book… Read More ›
“Nounou,” inquired Angelique, “Why did Giles de Retz kill so many children?” With these words, one of the world’s greatest series of historical fiction begins. It is a translation from the French. I have been told by many people who’ve read the series in French,… Read More ›
It’s the truth. Not the truth we’ve been led to believe, but the truth every nation has tried to make sure we did not know. This books is not only history. It’s also culture and art. It’s 857 pages long… Read More ›
Audiobook – Narrated by Mel Brooks Garry and I have been listening to this wonderful audiobook. Mel Brooks is one of those people who seems to love everyone and never has a bad word to say about anyone. I don’t… Read More ›
The Epistolary Novelby Gretchen Archer Have you ever read an epistolary, a story told through correspondence rather than by a narrator? Of the epistolaries I’ve read—comparatively speaking, there aren’t all that many out there — the one that made the… Read More ›
It’s déjà vu all over again as we travel back with author Robert Harris to Republican Rome just before it became Imperial Rome. In America, we complain of corruption. Lying politicians. We fear the end of our Democracy, such as it isn’t…. Read More ›
BELLWETHER AGAIN I read Bellwether (by Connie Willis) again and finished it the other day. Each time I read it — this is the 6th or 7th time — I learn something new. I frequently lament that I don’t understand… Read More ›
It’s almost embarrassing. I bought this book more nine years ago with every intention of reading it. It’s a very long book. Modern American history is not my favorite subject, but I feel compelled to read it anyway. At 1102… Read More ›
If I ever have to answer the question again about which person I’d like to have come visit us that answer would absolutely be Doris Kearns Goodwin. It wouldn’t even be inconvenient since she lives in or around Boston and… Read More ›
What is truth? What is history? What really happened? How did we wind up where we are now? This is the book that will go a long way to explaining it. You might not like the explanation, but when you… Read More ›
“Becoming,” by Michelle Obama and “A Promised Land,” by Barack Obama were on the best-seller list for quite a while. I’ve gotten a bit tired of political books, but I was running out of new books. I’d read all the… Read More ›
Ardash Vartparonian The author of Solstice High discusses this and future books! Publisher: Strategic Book Group Urban Fantasy/Sci Fi/Young Adult 360 Pages An interview with Ardash Vartparonian, author of SOLSTICE HIGH Serendipity: I felt like I was reading the first… Read More ›
After I read Peace Talks, I had to wait just a month for Battleground to be released. I’m sure he wrote them as one book, but they are published in two volumes. There was a natural break between the first… Read More ›
I have waited six years for book sixteen of the Harry Dresden world to be published. I waited patiently. Then, after a while, with less patience. A few months ago, there was a book by Jim Butcher called Spiderman: The… Read More ›
Jane Allen Petrick has written a wonderful book about Norman Rockwell, the artist, and his work. It focuses on the “invisible people” in his painting, the non-white children and adults who are his legacy. For many readers, this book will be an eye-opener… Read More ›
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