Book Nook: The Enchanted, by Rene Denfeld
This is an extraordinary novel. Here's my review of it which ran the other day in the San Antonio (Texas) Express News:“Knockemstiff” author Donald Ray Pollock is one of my favorite writers. The...
View ArticleBook Nook: Replay - A Thriller, by Marc Levy
14 years ago Marc Levy visited the Book Nook to talk about his novel "If Only It Were True." That book became an international best-seller. In 2005 this story was adapted and released as the Hollywood...
View ArticleBook Nook: Visitation Street, by Ivy Pochoda
Two fifteen year-old girls are feeling bored. It is a summer night in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, which is right on the waterfront. These two girls, June and Val, are close friends but their...
View ArticleBook Nook: Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
Here's my review of another knockout debut novel. This one ran recently in the Cox Ohio newspapers:
View ArticleBook Nook: Love Me, Feed Me, by Judith Jones
Do you feed your dog canned dog food? Do you ever think that perhaps your dog deserves better fare than that? I have just the book for you. Judith Jones has known and loved many dogs over the course of...
View ArticleBook Nook: Want You Dead, by Peter James
Peter James has created a crafty series of crime novels set in the English city of Brighton. Detective Roy Grace is his protagonist in what I like to call his "Dead Series" because every book has the...
View ArticleBook Nook: Poor Will's Almanack 2015, by Bill Felker
WYSO listeners will recognize the calm, reflective voice of Bill Felker. Bill's meditations upon nature and the changing seasons are a long-time staple on the WYSO airwaves and in publications across...
View ArticleBook Nook: The Italians, by John Hooper
John Hooper is a British journalist who has spent many years stationed in Italy. He has spent time in the various regions of Italy and has been able to observe Italians up close. He has really gotten...
View ArticleBook Nook: Love Songs - The Hidden History, by Ted Gioia
Love songs have been around forever. They are ubiquitous. If you eliminated every love song from our repertory of music there wouldn't be many songs left. The music historian and musicologist Ted Gioia...
View ArticleBook Nook: Lincoln's Bodyguard, by T.J. Turner
This past April we observed the 150th anniversary of our first presidential assassination. When John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln that evening at the theater he changed the course of history. Have...
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