I received an email today letting me know that my application to become a book giver for World Book Night on April 23, 2012 was accepted and I was one of those chosen to give books away!!! Dear World Book Night book giver, Yes, you read that right: World Book Night book giver! Has a [...]
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The Invisible Ones – Book Review
You take your fragile secret out of the darkness and expose it to the light. You lay it on the ground, where anyone can tread on it. – from The Invisible Ones – Ray is a private detective who is working through his own personal demons after separating from his wife. He doesn’t like missing [...]
Swamplandia! – Book Review
The Beginning of the End can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. When I was a kid I couldn’t see any of these ridges. It was only after Swamplandia!’s fall that time folded into a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. If you’re short on time, [...]
Blogger Impact
There are plenty of reasons to bemoan the changes in blogging – the pressures to review books, the controversy over monetizing or not, lack of transparency, author backlashes, and demands to track stats and increase traffic. So, it was with a great deal of gratitude and not a little pride to see book bloggers get [...]
Blacked Out in Protest
Read more about SOPA here. Add your name to the protest – let Congress hear your voice.
An American Hero – Celebrating Martin Luther King
Today we celebrate Martin Luther King day and I thought it would be appropriate to talk about some of the best books I have read about the African-American experience. First, take a few minutes to listen, once again, to the historic “I Have A Dream” speech: Here are the novels I recommend which revolve around [...]
The Artist of Disappearance – Book Review
All of us, every one of us, has had a moment when a window opened, when we caught a glimpse of the open, sunlit world beyond, but all of us, on this bus, have had that window close and remain closed. – from Translator Translated – The Artist of Disappearance is a collection of novellas [...]
Scottsboro – Book Review
Even after all these years, the injustice still stuns. Innocent boys sentenced to die, not for a crime they did not commit, but for a crime that never occurred. Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling. Young manhood ground to ashes. – from Scottsboro, page 1 – Ellen Feldman’s novel Scottsboro is [...]
World Book Night: A Celebration of Reading
Can you imagine one night with 50,000 people each giving away 20 books from a select list with a goal to have 1,000,000 people across the United States alone celebrating reading en masse? This is the dream of the founders and supporters of World Book Night. On April 23, 2012 (chosen because it is the [...]
The Street Sweeper – Book Review
Ghandi, Harlem, Christ, Jews in Europe, a block man living over there on Broadway in the Union Theological Seminary in 1930: you never know the connections between things, people, places, ideas. But there are connections. You never know where you’ll find them. Most people don’t know where to find them or even that there’s any [...]
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