There are many reasons why I keep coming back to Peter Heller books. First of all, he lives in Colorado and endearingly writes about the …
Books
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
One of the reasons I’m not part of any book clubs is because, at the risk of sounding like a little kid, I want to read what I want to read. …
The Feather Thief
After reading fiction for my last few books, I decided to delve back into nonfiction with The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the …
Lessons in Chemistry
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 …
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 …
