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It’s pretty helpful to have a twin along for the joyride that is middle school, especially one who can help you figure out how the other half thinks! My niece and nephew have each other’s backs. This past week, they gave…
You’ll quickly learn how little you know about anything, including how to talk about it. I’m being schooled regularly by my own teenagers when they aren’t too salty to have a conversation. Getting a new iphone 6? Hype! The way…
A woman long dead – marvelous and bold and complicated – is the subject of Paula McLain’s new novel, Circling the Sun. Read this book if you want to spend more time in Paula McLain’s company (The Paris Wife). I wouldn’t blame…
Monica McDougall is just back from an Out West adventure: two weeks, two families, two RV’s, too much fun! (One painful, beautiful book – more on that later.) They saw the sights – Mount Rushmore, Old Faithful, the “World Famous Corn Palace”…
I raved about Dietland a couple of weeks ago at Bacon and pressed it upon my friend Grace Awh, who was headed to Vienna and Prague and was looking for a good read on the plane. She called me today with…
Matt Osborne is likely the only person who bought Go Set A Watchman, by Harper Lee, and Dark Days: A Memoir, by Randy Blythe, on the same day. Randy Blythe is frontman for the metal band Lamb of God and…
I have a book to recommend to you – a grown up tale, and true – that has every bit as much cruelty, wonder and suspense as you find in the world of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka. “I grew…
It did take Eleanor Brakefield Wells some time to come back home: 34 years, to be precise. She was born in Nashville at Baptist Hospital when her father, Dr. James Brakefield, was a medical intern there. She attended Woodmont Elementary,…
We’ve heard quite a lot about a certain mockingbird lately. Today, Kate Satz reports on a hawk that’s also been flying high. H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald, has received all kinds of critical acclaim since its publication in the UK…