University School of Nashville math teacher and all-round great guy Joel Bezaire recommended some summer reading for me a while back: The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa. I’ve since learned that Ogawa’s novel is also the Harpeth Hall…
A free range reader takes chances on new authors, new genres, old classics, and books with great covers. Sometimes these choices lead to brilliant discoveries! But the free range reader sometimes buys a book in haste or confusion, leading to distressing…
Summer comes to a screeching halt for many of the kids in Nashville tomorrow, but it doesn’t have to come to an end for you! It’s still in the 90’s, for heavens sake. Turn up the AC and turn off your phone…
Regular Bacon contributor Monica McDougall (far left) recently spent “the most magical week” dove hunting in Argentina. Her husband and sons enjoyed the hunt, while she and daughter Ellie fell in love with the land and the people. Their happiest moments…
Continuing in our series of Bacon Bits – tiny reviews of terrific books – today’s bloody good read is The Transcriptionist: A Novel, by Amy Rowland. The narrator becomes obsessed with the story of a woman who seems to have committed suicide…