All the King’s Men…
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Fiction | No Comments »Well, I am in the middle of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, his ode to Huey Long. It's all about Willie Stark (thinly veiled Huey Long), a politician who wants to help the common people. A large task ...
Eclectic reading…
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Fiction, Programs | No Comments »You won't believe what I've been reading at the same time...Tony Hillerman's Skeleton Man and Joseph Kanon's The Good German. Very different books. The Hillerman is a fast mystery read. The author uses the real crash in 1956 of two ...
Murder Mystery in the James Patterson vein
Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Fiction | 1 Comment »Just finished Minette Walter's The Chameleon's Shadow. What a great read...just when you think you know what's going on...you don't. It is about a British soldier sent back from Iraq with a disfiguring head injury. He's not very likeable and ...
Favorite Holiday Stories?
Friday, November 30th, 2007 Posted in Fiction | 3 Comments »Here are my favorite Winter holiday stories. For adults, Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory (written in his prime, before that misguided time at the end of his life) The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, and, of course, Charles Dickens' A ...
Monday Morning Reading Blues
Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Fiction | 4 Comments »Hi, hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving. Not much to report on the reading front...had very little time over the weekend to read. But...I could put an early plug in for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. If you like ...
Recommendation…
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in Fiction | No Comments »On this cool, windy Veterans Day, thought I would take a moment to recommend Richard Russo's new novel Bridge of Sighs. Russo is at his best here in his description of small town life over several generations. These are regular ...