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 [...]
Frederica, by Georgette Heyer – Book Review & Classics Circuit Tour
Georgette Heyer is on Tour with The Classics Circuit this month. Click on the icon for more information about the Georgette Heyer Tour, and other tours on The Classics Circuit. Lord Alverstoke is a stylish and wealthy bachelor – bored with his sisters, their families and their perpetual ploys to get him to fund their [...]
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 [...]
The Girl on Legare Street, by Karen White – Book Review
Melanie Middleton and Jack Trenholm, that quarrelsome investigative duo is back, and in between falling in love or maybe just getting on each other’s last nerve, they have another mystery to solve. Melanie’s mother, from whom Melanie has been estranged since childhood, has returned from living overseas and wants to buy her own mother’s old [...]
The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova – Book Review
Troubled artist Robert Oliver first comes to psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe’s attention as the difficult referral of a colleague after he tries to slash a painting at the National Gallery of Art with a butter knife. Marlowe is prideful of his reputation for getting patients to open up and speak with him, but before his first [...]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz – Book Review
Oscar’s best friend (and narrator of the novel) Yunior decides to explore the fuku (curse) on Oscar’s family, and so traces their history in New Jersey and the Dominican Republic as the fuku escalates throughout the generations, finally culminating in Oscar’s death. That is the story in a teeny-tiny little nutshell. This novel is much, much bigger [...]
More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson – Book Review
A perusal of the back of More of This World or Maybe Another, a novel in stories, doesn’t offer up character names or any of the details typically emphasized in book descriptions. It makes simple statements about four people who are coming together and forming friendships- that I might add don’t necessarily make sense on [...]
Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl – Book Review
Ethan Wate is an accepted member of the Gatlin, South Carolina community. Though his family may be dismissive of “The War Between The States” and Civil War re-enactments they are still viewed as part of the establishment of which Ethan has grown weary. From Ethan’s vantage point as a star on the basketball team- knee [...]
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