Half Full or Half Empty?
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Just to clarify: it’s me that failed, not my book club. I intended to finish Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale before Thursday night rolled around, but we all know about good intentions and the roads they pave. With my book club’s…
The good professor, Roger Moore, brings Vanderbilt to Bacon today with his engaging review of The Incarnations, by Susan Barker. (Thanks Roger! I love it when you do that!) He illuminates a darkly fascinating novel that you’ll want…
So you need a little encouragement? I don’t blame you. I do too. Often. And Pepper is sometimes busy chasing squirrels. I’ve recently had 3 self-help/motivational books land in my lap, and I’d love to share them with you!…
Today, regular Bacon Contributor Laura Cooper loves on the “Neapolitan novels” by Elena Ferrante and explains why she’s becoming a fangirl! The New York Times recently named the fourth novel in the series, The Story of the Lost Child, one of its…
Portrait Artist Michael Shane Neal doesn’t fly under the radar. If you’re walking down the streets of New York with him, he’ll wear a bowler hat with his pin striped suit. In Scotland, he’ll don the tartan of his clan….
My Name is Lucy Barton is the book your friends will be reading this winter, this spring, and beyond. I try not to be a bully about recommendations, but you should join them! I was recently reminded of Muhammed Ali’s…
When I was growing up, I never thought much about authors. I only ever cared about the books (Misty of Chincoteague! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Later, The Count of Monte Cristo!). If I’m being honest, I’d have to say…
Sometimes over the holidays I write questions on little pieces of paper, fold them up, put them in a stack, and pass them around the dinner table when our daughters and their friends are trapped with us at a restaurant….
One idea for 2016 is to play it safe. Keep on doing the same things you’ve always done well. Eat at the same restaurants. Hang out with the same people. Maybe even re-read a few of your favorite books. Or…