April 2017 Book Recommendations Sloan Wilson’s, THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT; the martini-soaked Tom Rath is a disappointed corporate striver until he... Read More
March 2017 Book Recommendations John Williams’s, STONER; a lonely World War I era farm boy defies his parents, and becomes a professor with dreams... Read More
February 2017 Book Recommendations Barbara Pym’s, QUARTET IN AUTUMN; a story of how four older people—connected only casually— manage their isolation. Ernest Hemingway’s, A... Read More
January 2017 Book Recommendations Arnost Lustig’s, A PRAYER FOR KATERINA HOROVITZOVA; just before a young girl is gassed by the Nazis, she gets her... Read More
Holiday Reading Recommendations For Kids 1. Madeleine L’Engle’s A WRINKLE IN TIME 2. Madeleine L’ Engle’s AND BOTH WERE YOUNG 3. Judith Guest’s ORDINARY PEOPLE... Read More
December 2016 Book Recommendations Erich Segal’s, LOVE STORY; Very young, potent love; very young, potent death. Tom Wolfe’s, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES; the... Read More
November 2016 Book Recommendations Carol Burnett’s, ONE MORE TIME: A MEMOIR; from near poverty in San Antonio, to Lucille Ball-like success in television, movies,... Read More
October 2016 Book Recommendations John Irving’s, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP; the intricately intersecting lives of an illegitimate son and his feminist mother. Joan... Read More
September 2016 Book Recommendations Truman Capote’s, THE GRASS HARP; a boy and two elderly women observe life–from a tree. Dr. Seuss’s, THE CAT IN... Read More
August 2016 Book Recommendations Edith Wharton’s, A SON AT THE FRONT; a novel about how World War I affects an American family living in... Read More
Independence Day Reading List For Adults JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough THOMAS JEFFERSON’S CRÈME BRÛLÉE by Thomas J. Craughwell... Read More
Independence Day Reading List For Kids LIKE A RIVER: A Civil War Novel by Kathy Cannon Wiechman BLUE BIRDS by Caroline... Read More