Category: Book Reviews
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Whiskey & Words: The Lion is Dead
“Wine & Words” has changed for this month. My apologies, to pair a wine with this specific biography would not do it justice. So, for this month it will be “Whiskey & Words.” Still a nice alliteration. A sensible play on words will journey us through the turn of the century. ‘What century?’ you ask.…
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Picture This! Why Everyone Should Read Picture Books
I have been waiting all year for November because it is National Picture Book Month. While I love all levels of children’s books (see my previous posts about the Enola Holmes mysteries and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles), I always get the most excited about picture books. Yep. Picture books. Big books with few words. Meant…
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Seeking Awe
Have you noticed lately that people aren’t okay? Maybe you’re raising your hand and saying, “Me! That’s me! I’m most definitely not okay.” I hear you. In most places there’s a palpable undercurrent of unrest, irritability, depression, anxiety, mistrust, divisiveness, and grief, among many other equally unsettling things. The reasons for our current state of…
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Wine & Words: Bovary, Beaujolais, and Imperial Russia?
The books that are catching my attention recently have not been that of best sellers, nor of romance, or any nonfiction. The novels that are fulfilling my needs and feeding my desires are the classics. Classic literature is a funny genre, because is it a really a genre? Or a grouping of novels that people…
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