“No matter how great a work of art is, it comes to an end. In fact, in order to be great, it must end.” Juhea Kim, City of Night Birds, pg. 305 When I was five years old, I wanted to be a ballet dancer more than anything in the world. All my child-sized brain…
Would you let your children pick your next date? In Is She Really Going Out with Him? (I must confess to humming the old Joe Jackson song every time I say the title) by Sophie Cousens that is exactly what our narrator agrees to. Anna Appleby is a busy, newly divorced mother of…
Who doesn't love a grumpy old man sticking his nose in other folks' business? In this case it's a grumpy old pony sticking his snout in his other people's business. Like Marcellus the octopus in Remarkably Bright Creatures, we have an animal intervening in human affairs and ultimately, saving the day. Pony after being sold by…
Sometimes a book just evokes a visceral reaction. The Wedding People by Alison Espach was that book for me. I picked up this book thinking I’d get a light, breezy read and got a whole lot more than I expected. Phoebe Stone, in a fabulous dress and heels, checks into Newport,…
"Knowing when to keep something close and when to let go is what living's about." Like Leslye Penelope's previous novel, Monsters We Defy, this is a work of magical realism set during within 20th century events. However, unlike that first novel which is set in an urban environment, Daughter of the Merciful Deep is set…
“When lost, yelled the crowd, in chorus, sit down and yell.” When I get lost (in a book) I never want to yell. I demand quiet. I want to focus all my energy on the book. But with Liz Moore’s God of the Woods chaos could have erupted around me and I would not have…
There are times when a book can just hit you hard. Do you know what I mean? In All the Colors of the Dark, the newest by Chris Whitaker, I got an emotional roller coaster. We have childhood best friends, Patch and Saint, outcasts for to be sure, but they need no one else.…
Sometimes I just need a good beach read. I got that and more in Christina Lauren’s new one The Paradise Problem. College students Liam and Anna both want to live in the housing reserved for married students (it’s roomier/cushier), so they fake marry. Over the three years they platonically room together, they…
“Books won’t solve my problems, Harriet.” “No, but they give your problems perspective. They allow your problems to breathe.” - Monica Wood, How to Read a Book Chances are if you are a regular library visitor that you are a booklover. I know that I love books. They provide not only an escape, but…
Amor Towles needs no introduction, his last two novels, A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway, were runaway bestsellers (and I loved them). In this outing Towles offers us one novella and a collection of short stories. In Table for Two Towles brings us stories that center on unlikely encounters that result in…
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