Daisy never pays attention to artwork around the house. I mean, she's never said a single word about the framed photo with her boyfriend...

Afters years of resistance to my family's happy-to-sit-on-the-beach-all-day inertia, Hubert appears to have finally given up on the...

Persephone Books Guest Review by Susan Hudson After bringing up children, Priscilla is left asking herself, what was it all for? This...

1996, Riverhead Books This book is a classic I hadn't heard of until Yvonne lent it to me. I loved it. James McBride and his many...

1994, St. Martin's Press Even if you walk the same road a hundred times, you'll find something different each time. (211) I especially...

2000, Folio On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, their 2 children and his parents, and attempted to kill his mistress....

2021, HQ, Harper Collins Publishers Esther Safran Foer recounts the search for her family's Ukrainian past in this Holocaust memoir. Her...

While reading an essay by Hillary Mantel, (about the British Royals), I learned of the poet Stevie Smith. I like this quote by her: Read...

2022, BlessingShares Writer and poet Blessing Okoro wrote these poems during the 2020 lockdown, which she describes as a time of ...

Non-Writers of Books Poem anonymous Oh! you who write not as you wish, who daily ignore New Year's promise, who avoid Daruma*'s one-eyed...

1987, East European Monographs/Harvill Secker Bookclub meeting, 21 April 2023 Oh dear, why didn't I take better notes of our bookclub...

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Juneteenth was yesterday, but it's never too late to celebrate freedom. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was effective January 1,...

1860, William Blackwood and Sons This is the story of Maggie and her older brother Tom set in the English countryside, in 1829-1840. They...

1958 Thanks to Tom Lynn, Associate Professor of English at Penn State Berks, for this synopsis. Chinua Achebe, whose novels are read...

Dear friends and readers, thanks for sharing your favorite quotes. I hope you'll enjoy reading them! COMMON SENSE Don't believe anything...

1919, Craig Empire The Craig Empire was a newspaper founded in 1911 in Craig, Colorado. One reader said the poem describes depression,...

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Africa Day 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of African Union. To celebrate, let's honor two Nigerian writers, Chimamanda Adichie and...

La plus précieuse des marchandises 2019, Editions du Seuil This tale is about a baby whose father throws her out of a train window....