by bertbaby | Sep 25, 2013 | Book Reviews
This surreal novel from Kathryn Davis profiles two suburban children attempting to escape the black hole of a regimented and sheltered existence – and finding the way out as circuitous and strange as their own impending maturity.
by bertbaby | Sep 25, 2013 | Book Reviews
Discover why 104 year old reclusive heiress Huguette Clark – at the center of a heated battle over a Gilded Age industrialist’s estate and $300 million inheritance – was for decades a hermit entirely removed from the outside world.
by bertbaby | Sep 25, 2013 | Book Reviews
September 25: “You don’t have to shoot me…. I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won’t move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.”
by bertbaby | Sep 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
The long-awaited sequel to The Shining proves a chilling American odyssey.
by bertbaby | Sep 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
From whale watches to trips to view Aurora Borealis from the Arctic Circle, naturalist Kathleen Jamie pursues science writing with an adventurer’s pace and the storytelling of a sharp dramaticist.
by bertbaby | Sep 24, 2013 | Book Reviews
September 24: “Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise...
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