This book broke my heart but I loved it. It broke my heart because the way women were treated in the 1950s and 1960s was bullshit. Because …
Books
The River
Peter Heller is nothing if not consistent. The River is the third Heller book I’ve read and it was similar to the other two (The Painter and …
Shit, Actually
Lindy West is a little kooky. But she is also very clever and very funny. In her book, Shit, Actually: The Definitive 100% Objective Guide …
Yellowface
An Asian author writing as a white writer who steals a manuscript from her recently deceased Asian writer friend and then sort of pretends …
Celine
A few months ago, a bookseller at our local bookstore suggested reading work by Peter Heller – a Colorado resident who writes thrillers that …
Why They Can’t Write
Wow that’s a loaded title! And here the subtitle: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. It’s obvious why I wanted to …
The Painter
Art. Murder. Guns. Fly-fishing. Tragedy. All these elements make up The Painter – a thriller about a rebel painter with a cause who …
The Art of the Oral History
I have a special place in my heart for oral histories because they are basically interviews with commentary and analysis in between which, …
2023: Year In Review
I started writing year-end reviews in 2020 and each year it blows my mind how quickly the next one comes around. As I’ve said before, no one …