Thank you, Farrell Mason, for your lovely new novel, The Angel and the Raven. A friend bought it for me at Parnassus yesterday and pressed it into my hands with her warmest recommendation. I have spent this afternoon outside reading…
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In one of the most dramatic scenes in a novel, submerge a dog in a tank full of water and have him share a breathing tube with his master. Is it just me, or is that hard to believe? Alice Hoffman’s new novel, The…
Our oldest daughter left for boarding school last September. I didn’t feel fine. Things are better now! I’ve made adjustments. Started new projects. Paid excessive attention to our younger daughter, poor thing. Still, there are moments when I can’t believe our…
These are the last days of my dog, Belle. She remains in good spirits – at least, today – but lymphoma has caused the nodes in her neck to swell to the size of golf balls. The vet says the…
These are the last days of my dog, Belle. She remains in good spirits – at least, today – but lymphoma has caused the nodes in her neck to swell to the size of golf balls. The vet says the…
On occasional Wednesdays, I’ll post a passage from a current read that is too amazing, provocative, funny, or beautiful not to share. Today’s selection is from Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrower (reviewed in yesterday’s post). Sandro is a successful artist in…
Nashville’s All-City Read for 2014, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, is both heart-warming and heart-wrenching. From beginning to end, it simmers with feeling. Another hot current read – The Flamethrowers – explodes with action you didn’t see coming. Both…
Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a smart, playful romp that begins in a musty secondhand bookstore in San Francisco then weaves through time and place, with stops at a book-worshipping cult in ancient Egypt (probably imagined by the author), a…
You may find yourself in another part of the world. You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife. And you may ask yourself – well…