Dining with Squirrels

I read this in one day and it felt a little like work.  I just felt like I was reading the authors journals in book/fiction form.  Her observations of the minutia of parenthood were very funny, but the store is a wearisome one that I find myself seeing over and over:  mother goes back to […]

Oh, do I love a travelogue.  And such a well-written one, well I just devoured it.  Let me quote Dwight Garner from the New York Times, who so ably put words to my feelings:  “The cumulative welling up I experienced during Wild was partly a response to that too infrequent sigh: that of a writer […]

Sarah Prices’ husband has written a novel title Infidelity.  When he tells her that it’s based on fact — the fact of his infidelity to her — she reels, trying to decide to stay or go. The first-person narration made Sarah’s pain so personal and present and TRUE.  Painfully so, actually. I was tired by […]