One Hundred Great French Books: From the Middle Ages to the Present, by Lance Donaldson-Evans – Book Review
American Literature has such a variety of names from different backgrounds that a lot of the time it is hard for me to know what’s what and where the author was born just by seeing their name on a book. I am also not that diligent about looking up that type of information. Sometimes curiosity [...]
Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk, by Robyn Okrant
35-year-old yoga instructor, graduate degree candidate and Chicagoan, Robyn Okrant, sets out to follow all of the instructions that Oprah Winfrey issues on her show, website and magazine for one year. Okrant proposes to investigate what living Oprah’s billionaire lifestyle will have on ardent followers with average and middle class incomes. Anything that comes out [...]
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot – Book Review
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who escaped an arduous life picking cotton – on the same farmland that her family worked as slaves – to move to Baltimore, Maryland. Though she had a troubled marriage to her first cousin, David Lacks, [...]
A Gift From Brittany: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the French Countryside, by Marjorie Price – Book Review
It is 1960 in the memoir, A Gift From Brittany, when Marjorie leaves her parents and boyfriend in order to fulfill her lifelong dream of going to Paris to paint for what she thinks will be a few months. As an artist, she cannot be complete without that experience, and even though she doesn’t speak [...]
Keeping the Feast: by Paula Butturini – Book Review
Paula Butturini and her husband John Tagliabue grew up in a rich Italian tradition that both celebrates and takes equal comfort in the preparation and sharing of meals with family members and friends. When they met, they seemed like a natural match for one another, and spent four happy years as a couple, holding down [...]
Government Girl, by Stacy Parker Aab – Book Review
Stacy Parker is just 18 years old and attending George Washington University when she starts as an intern in the office of George Stephanopolous. A native of Detroit, Stacy has always excelled at school, and she quickly falls into a routine riddled with varying levels of constant stress while she tries to do the best [...]
Among The Thugs, by Bill Buford – Book Review
When Bill Buford started investigating the extreme violence among the soccer “firms” in the UK he was early into his tenure of being an American in England and as a result looked upon as an outsider when approaching the members of the different groups. With perseverance through continued attendance at soccer matches and his presence [...]
Seven, by Jacqueline Leo
Part self help book, part meditation on the number seven and the way that it has popped up time and again throughout the course of history, Jacqueline Leo’s new book is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Leo covers a wide range of topics that try as I might to summarize leave my powers of summary in [...]
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