I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard reading a book!  This is the true story of Rhoda Jansen, whose husband has left her for a guy named  Bob.  To recover from both her broken marriage (and some broken bones she got in a car accident), Rhoda returns home to her parents’ home [...]

This book is a classic written by E. M. Forster.  What makes me read this book over and over is the description of the scenery in Italy.  I also enjoy revisiting the characters.  Forester has written such a detailed and crisp narrative that it makes me feel like I know the people and I have been [...]

 
 
 
 
 
Why does this always happen to me?  I have this habit of putting lots of books that I want to read on hold at the library and then they inevitably all come in at the same time!  Now I have these three that all need to be read in the next two weeks!  Good thing [...]

I got very lucky a couple of weeks ago - I was at a party for my boyfriend’s mom and my boyfriend’s cousin showed up with a pile of books written by his friend Michelle, which he was handing out.  Having just finished a book that morning, I was ready for a new book to [...]

In honor of World Vegetarian Day, I decided to write about one of my favorite cookbooks, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.  Author Mark Bittman is a food writer for the New York Times who has written several well-known cookbooks and books on food  in general.  I just read about him in Runner’s World magazine recently and he even runs marathons - is [...]

This fiction book was picked by a friend of mine for our book club to read.  The size of the book initially gave me a feeling of dread, but then one woman I ran into said that from the first sentence, she was hooked.  Indeed, from the first sentence of this book I was hooked. 
 ”The Help” [...]

This story is a memoir written by a young woman who discovers she has breast cancer.  She is married and has two young daughters.  As depressing as this outline sounds, the story is very touching and even funny because of Kelly Corrigan’s sense of humor.  What we can gain as the reader of this memoir [...]

This is my new favorite cookbook, which I got a few weeks ago for my birthday (thanks Doug!).  If you’ve ever watched The Barefoot Contessa on TV, you know that she has an amazingly soothing voice and that she cooks with a lot of butter.  The good news is that her writing style is just [...]

Sex with a woman in trouble, a dead body, questions from the police and the call of the streets along with a cantankerous pooch all conspire to disturb the settled life of Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins and that is just the beginning of Walter Mosley’s “A Little Yellow Dog”. The word formula applies to most mystery [...]

This is the second book about Frank Lloyd Wright that I’ve read this summer (the other was Loving Frank by Nancy Horan), and in retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have read them so close together.  There was quite a bit of overlap between the two books, although Boyle’s covered far more ground (and more women!).
The story is told in [...]