The Black Sheep Dances

This memoir took me awhile to get interested in. Reviewing a memoir is always tough, as you really don't want to appear to say, ...

This is the year of the memoir. Really.  I've never noticed so many.  A few I started to get bored with, as they seemed like a lot o...

His idea, his rules. Sounds like a good kick to start reading this summer.  His website is oliverdelapaz.com. The Oliver De La Paz Sum...

Review by Amy Henry I think everyone has held the “cottage by the sea” dream aloft in our imagination, thinking at times it to be...

A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina Hurricanes have the power to fascinate us, as do earthq...

I was so disappointed with this novel. I normally love Europa Edition's World Noir series, and I've read every single one of Wils...

Norah Vincent is trying to recreate the days leading up to Virginia Woolf's suicide, when she put stones in her pockets and waded in...

"Nor is she sentimental. Inside a silver locket she has worn for years, a gift from my father, are the stock photographs of the st...

"...attempts at difference had the opposite effect to the one intended. For they emphasized that, in the midst of this randomness, ...

This bilingual collection of the poems of Lev Loseff begins with a preemptory acknowledgement, by series editor Jean Boase-Beier, of th...

I read Wyld's first book After the Fire,A Small Still Voice a few years ago and loved the suspense she creates.  Eager to read this...

The first thing I liked about this novel is the region: the Texas Gulf Coast. I read a lot and I seriously can't remember any taking...

2015 Maritime Reading Challenge Andrew Wyeth It's been ages since I've suggested a Reading Challenge, and this one is a...

If you are in your 40s, you probably remember the end of the Cold War quite well.  Before that, the Soviet Union was portrayed by the me...

Elena Gorokhova's A Mountain of Crumbs was a riveting memoir (given to me by a dear friend who knows and shares my obsession for al...

Family.  The most complicated and difficult and rewarding of relationships.  This is an exploration of an unconventional family in an un...

One of my favorite books ever is "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun, and I kept thinking of it as I read this novel.  Much of...

Alternative title: Smart People Who Do Astonishingly Scary Things Before you start reading this book, head on over to Youtube and loo...