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London Under, by Peter Ackroyd 27 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Peter Ackroyd is an outstanding biographer who has written excellent books on Shakespeare, Chaucer, J.M.W. Turner, and Isaac Newton among others. He is also an accomplished novelist. My favorite books...
The Plantagenets, by Dan Jones 26 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Everybody knows the stories of the good King Richard the Lionhearted, the noble Englishman, and his despicable brother John, later king himself, right? Well, after reading Dan Jones’s superb history o...
My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok 23 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
I used to read and re-read this novel over and over again, especially during my college years. It always seemed to be the one I’d pick up when procrastinating or killing time around finals time. Alway...
Ali Macgraw: Yoga mind & body (1994) 22 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
This is my favorite exercise video, not only for its glorious setting and background music, but because I can actually do each exercise, all the way through from beginning to end, without wasting prec...
Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan 21 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Captivated by the pages in Gap Creek devoted to the slaughtering of a hog and the rendering of its fat, I have shown that passage to several people who, after reading that one section, immediately pro...
The Black Stallion (1979) 20 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
The Black Stallion is one of my all-time favorite films, and it stuns me to encounter individuals who have never heard of it, which sometimes happens when I suggest it to families looking for movies t...
Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson 19 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
My family discovered this story a few years ago during a road-trip stop at a popular restaurant and gift shop franchise where you can actually rent audiobooks on CD then return them at another locatio...
The Expanse series, by James S. A. Corey 16 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
When I started this science fiction series two years ago, I had only one complaint. In the opening scenes of Leviathan Wakes, I was introduced to Juliette Mao, a jiu jitsu-trained racing pilot who had...
Amy Falls Down, by Jincy Willett 15 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
In 2008, I wrote a review of The Writing Class, by Jincy Willett. That story revolved around Amy Gallup, the aging teacher of a writing class in which one of the students turned out to be a murderer. ...
Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, by Peter Graham 14 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
I love Anne Perry’s books, so I was curious and at the same time hesitant to pick this up. Frankly, I didn’t want to be reminded that someone who created such likeable and morally upright characters a...
