October 25, 2010 – 6:17 pm
George Stephanopoulos only had to declare that he loved Eighteen Acres and that author Nicolle Wallace, former White House Communications Director for Bill Clinton, got all the little details right and I was ready to rush out and buy this one. Eighteen Acres (what insiders call the White House complex) revolves around three women in [...]
December 13, 2008 – 6:52 pm
I expected to read a story about a Boston political family (aka The Kennedys) and the consequences when one of the sons is involved in a car accident. Instead,I was surprised to read a story about a former mayor of Boston and how a car accident one night turns his family inside out…in a very [...]
November 3, 2008 – 2:27 pm
This book will get your political juices flowing as we all head into election week. Imagine this. Instead of spending the nearly one trillion dollars on the war in Iraq, America could have: Doubled the 663,000 cops on the beat for 32 years. Bought 16.6 million Habitat for Humanity houses, enough for 43 million Americans. [...]
September 22, 2008 – 7:48 pm
This post in today’s Shelf Awareness blog for book sellers caught my attention. If you love books and support Senator Obama, it seems like a win win to me…but I would act soon. More than 750 authors have contributed signed copies of their books to novelist Ayelet Waldman, who created Books for Barack, an online [...]
Hearing about the recent devastation from Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar earlier this month has made me reflect back on Amy Tan’s novel “Saving Fish From Drowning“. This is travel fiction at its best. A delicious yarn about a group of tourists that travel from San Francisco to Burma and unwittingly get themselves kidnapped into [...]
January 26, 2008 – 3:20 pm
For a recent girl’s night out, a few of us decided to meet for dinner and then walk over to the library to hear Sue Miller read from her latest “domestic fiction” novel “The Senator’s Wife”. It had been given a mention by Sessalee Hensley (uber influential fiction book buyer for Barnes & Nobel) in [...]
