A Portrait of Emily Price – Fixing Art and a Family
This novel is the first one that I’ve read written by Katherine Reay. Now, I’m eager to read others. If A Portrait of Emily Price is an [...]
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Five Books Featuring Fabulous Felines
Cats! Long before they took over my apartment and the Internet, cats were a ubiquitous presence in our culture. Go to any bookstore and [...]
Poet’s Corner – After Solstice – Susan Moorhead
After Solstice The first winter night after December 21st comes with a promise of longer days and shorter nights, yet the yard is pitch [...]
Michael Connelly’s The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Some mystery writers have trouble maintaining a series. After a few books, the plots seem repetitive, the characters stale, and the writing [...]
Mincemeat – The Education of an Italian Chef
Chefs used to confine themselves to writing cookbooks. Then along came Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, which shocked diners [...]
The Dog-Walking Diaries – A Year in the Life of an Autistic Dog-Walker
Like most would-be writers, I’ve tried my hands at a score of ‘real’ aka paying jobs over the years. And like many other people on [...]
Linger in The Waiting Room
Aristotle posited that a perfect story is one whose entire action, the protagonist’s personal evolution as well as their physical [...]
Five Great Christmas Reads
With the holiday season upon us, we all like to find a comfortable chair (ideally in front of a roaring fireplace,) to curl up in, with a [...]
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