What’s the difference between visiting a zoo and watching a TV reality show? You can provide the punch line – not too hard to imagine. In Ape House, Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, once again uses man’s relationship … Continue reading
When the Sunday New York Times “By the Book” section asks someone, usually a writer, to identify books they are reading or one with a powerful impact on their lives, I feel so connected to the person when a book … Continue reading
If you are a fan of children’s literature, you will recognize author’s names and references in Julia Glass’s A House Among the Trees. After I was only a few chapters into the story, I started to connect the children’s book … Continue reading
Rebecca Makkai works her family saga backwards in The Hundred-Year Old House from the absurd predictions of Y2K to the turn of the century in 1900. The House itself may be the main character, with its history of ghosts, secrets, … Continue reading
Galveston, Texas has always had the aura of the old wild west for me, but Elizabeth Black’s Gothic mystery – The Drowning House – reveals a sophisticated old city on a barrier island that reminded me of the Outer Banks … Continue reading
