I won't spend a lot of time reviewing any book to which I give less than a workaday 3 rating: the "score" is more a reflection of my own taste…

I could have read this a few weeks ago but I had a backlog on my nightstand and paused electronic delivery from the library. It finally came back in during…

Messud's account of four generations of pied-noir family has a big reveal at the very end that is well worth the (slight) effort it takes to make it to the conclusion.…

I enjoyed Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun! as a bit of summer fluff. It could have been a much more academic work and was occasionally frustrating in missing some low-hanging fruit.…

I've never read 50 Shades of Grey, but I imagine that if you replaced Christian with a puppet totalitarian state, threw in a bunch of German philosophy, political science and art,…

I'm still coming to grips with fully appreciating the implications of Lynne Kutsukake's The Art of Vanishing, a page-turner that explores the relationship of art to sense of self and…

I'm largely out of the office these days so starting to pile up some book challenge numbers - so tonight I'm doing a twofer catch-up.Elaine Feeney's How To Build a…

I remember it seems a long time ago now reading Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance on the train from NYC to North Carolina and the experience of that novel's unrelenting…

I did enjoy Clayton Page Aldern's The Weight of Nature that takes a look at the effects of climate change on our (in layperson's terms) brains. Divided into three parts,…