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In Michael Cunningham’s By Nightfall, Peter and Rebecca Harris have been married for twenty years, both with successful careers in the arts, a SoHo loft and college aged daughter, Bea. There are a few trouble spots in their careers (Rebecca’s magazine is in talks to be sold and Peter is stymied in his efforts to [...]
A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, by Lawrence Block starts with Matthew Scudder revisiting an early case in his career as a private investigator. Newly sober and just released from his position in the NYPD following the accidental shooting death of an innocent bystander. While attending AA meetings, and in the midst of the stagnation [...]
When Siobhan Fallon’s You Know When The Men Are Gone started making the rounds last winter, the immediate feedback on it touted an incredible collection of short stories. I heard this from several book blogging friends who are usually about as “meh” as I am on short stories. Encouraging, but still, I didn’t run right [...]
In Kirsten Miller’s The Eternal Ones, Haven Moore is like most seniors in high school, she spends most of her days dreaming about escaping family imposed rules and having freedom as a freshman in college. However, Haven’s reasons for longing to get away far exceed the average teenager’s. Haven has long suffered from fits which [...]
I have come to view Michael Koryta’s supernatural/mystery stand-alone novels as a litmus test. Several friends have read all three books, and there are a variety of opinions about which gets the vote as favorite. I would love to chart where we were in our lives, and what we were responding to when we read [...]
Every day in S.J. Watson‘s riveting novel, Before I Go To Sleep, Christine wakes up next to a middle-aged stranger and, ashamed, creeps to the bathroom to discover that she is no longer in her twenties. She is also middle-aged and married to Ben, the man she has left behind in bed. Every day she [...]
This month I participated in Everyday I Write The Book‘s Book Club discussion of Tayari Jones’ Silver Sparrow. It is my first experience with Jones’ writing, though this is her third novel, and I am happy to have found an author whose body of work I would love to explore. Like many others I was fascinated by the [...]
Billed as a bedtime story for parents, Go The F**K To Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Richard Cortès is the battle cry, albeit it one silently voiced, of anyone- parents, babysitter, innocent bystander who just want a little peace/quiet/good night’s sleep from an active toddler or rambunctious baby. It is HILARIOUS. And dude, if you [...]
Alice Bliss, by Laura Harrington, is the story of fifteen-year-old Alice, a daddy’s girl, and the year she and her family spend with her father, Matt, deployed in Iraq. Alice’s mother Angie questions his decision to serve his country over the family who needs him, and Matt, though probably well-meaning, puts considerable pressure on Alice [...]
Witches of East End is Melissa de la Cruz’s foray into the adult paranormal market with this first in a series about a family of witches living quietly (at least at first) in quaint and beautiful North Hampton. Joanna Beauchamp and her daughters Ingrid and Freya have been banned from practicing magic after overuse and [...]
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