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It took longer than any other book I've ever read, I'm fairly sure of that. Longer than War and Peace. Longer than A Suitable Boy (s...

Mea culpa. I didn't fulfill my 2016 vow , to finish those two doorstops,  War and Peace and The Power Broker by year's end, but I...

I bought this book because of the cover. I'm not kidding. It looked like such a cool cover that I just had to have it. Luckily the boo...

#39, a slender volume, has been sitting in my to-read pile for ages. Mr. Gilfil's Love Story is by one of my favorite writers, George El...

He may not be the most brilliant writer, but he sure is prolific, and more than competent. In Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the...

I love a good immigrant story. And I've read many about Indian immigrants, Italian immigrants, Jewish immigrants. But this may be the fi...

I knew it was a movie. And that it starred Brad Pitt. But I had no idea that the movie was based on a book--more a novella--by the author No...

Seems that way lately. The last 11 have all been by female writers. After I took my first feminist lit class back in college I made a vow to...

Somehow this summer I've gotten into reading the recently released. It could be because I found a new bookstore I like and I can't s...

I do like a good thriller, even if it has "girl" in the title. In this book's case, the girl is upgraded to a woman, but it...