Category: Book Corner

I stumbled on this book in a used bookstore.  I had just finished a book and really didn’t know what (or even what genre) of book to read

This book has everything we have come to expect of a book “about modern life”: office politics, romance, the urban/rural divide, the friends, the career going nowhere, the

I don’t normally insert politics into this blog but this book felt different because of the questions it asked. I won’t make a habit of it. Promise. A

Lynne Olson’s books fill our bookshelves for I have been reading her books for a long time.  This book is good—as you would expect from a writer and

This is a lovely series set in a world where every person has a special affinity for a particular element: water, fire, air, earth, and wood.  The individual

When her Mom was pregnant with her younger brother Julissa made what seemed to her a relatively reasonable offer.  A compromise.  She would not kill him but she

This is not a story book; it’s written as a history book.  The idea is that Maester Yandel wrote this book as a gift to the king. (The

I have given up on the Song of Fire and Ice—mostly because I don’t think R. R. Martin will ever finish the books and so am happy that

They did not invent or even perfect the automobile because Wilbur Wright “could not imagine how any contrivance that made such a racket and had so many things

She starts with the sidewalk.  The sidewalk, after all, is where we live most of our lives if we live in a city.  It’s where we walk, where