Category: Books

This is a heartbreaking story.  Or rather two stories.  It is the story, on the one hand, of Rachel—whose father was always, always angry.  He was always raging

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

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

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

As with its precursor High Rage, it’s a little hard to describe the plot of Taking Hope.  OK, at one level it’s easy: Morgan (aka Scarface) has decided