Have you ever wanted to talk with someone who’s passed over to the other side? Have you ever felt like a deceased loved one is trying to contact you? In Newport, the latest novel by […]
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is a novel of ideas, not action. Unlike Lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman moves slowly, and what little action there is appears […]
In most novels, characters have a problem to solve, a quest to fulfill, or a challenge to overcome. Pursuing this goal drives the novel forward. So when we read novels, we expect to have this […]
Reading a novel written by someone you know can be daunting. Reviewing it can be even worse. What if you don’t like it? In the case of Permanent Makeup, such fears were never a problem. […]
Reading A Prayer for Owen Meany means spending time in a swirling conglomeration of quirky characters and unexpected twists of fate. Starting with the title character, an abnormally small boy with an abnormally high voice, […]
Although the cover copy on Abraham Verghese’s lush novel, Cutting for Stone, implies that the story is about twin brothers, it’s really not. Instead, it’s an intense, provocative look at one of those brothers and […]
After spending a week at Long Beach Island, New Jersey, I’ve been thinking about what makes a book good for reading at the beach or at the mountains or at any other vacation site. Too […]
Today I started my day writing a review of a novel for Goodreads. As I wrote, I began thinking about why we write reviews and critiques of books. What’s the true purpose of critical writing? […]
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