Intended or not, in A Constellation of Vital Phenomena author Anthony Marra reminds us Americans that we are, indeed, exceptional—at least in one respect.
Read the Rest!We Zany Irish!
UPDATE: This post was based on a daily online entry from Steve King’s Today in Literature. Alas–Steve’s excellent work is no longer available (at least, online). With props to Steve, I’ve tried my best to link to other sources that support this narrative.
Read the Rest!From Paris to Provence: Where Food is Life
CapRadio Reads scores again with last Saturday’s book selection, From Paris to Provence: Childhood Memories of Food & France, by Ethel Brennan and Sara Remington.
Read the Rest!Jeanne Robertson: Dee-lightful
As advertised, G. and I took in Jeanne Robertson’s show at Three Stages Folsom Sunday night. The woman did not disappoint.
Read the Rest!Support “Your Mother!”
If you didn’t “Listen to Your Mother” last night at the Crest Theater, you missed it.
Read the Rest!Counsel Stedman Responds
To my fellow Goodreads members: Hope you followed my prompt and took the chance to ask M. L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans–the Indie Book of the Year this year–a question last Friday.
Read the Rest!Goodreads: M. L. Stedman Q & A
Earlier this year, I read, enjoyed, and reviewed M. L. Stedman‘s breakout novel, The Light Between Oceans. (It was a selection of the CapRadio Reads book club.)
Read the Rest!Thank You, Capital Public Radio!
A heart-felt “Thank You!” to our CapRadio Reads book club monitor, Vicki Lorini, for the VIP treatment we members received at last night’s launch party in Davis for John Lescroart‘s latest offering, The Ophelia Cut.
Read the Rest!The Man Who Rode the Comet
One Hundred thirteen years ago last Sunday, America’s Shakespeare—Samuel Langhorne Clemens, writing and lecturing as the more familiar “Mark Twain“–left this mortal coil as Halley’s Comet approached, just as he’d come in 77 years earlier.
Read the Rest!The Night Circus–Hooptedoodle
The Night Circus is Erin Morgenstern’s first novel, published July 3, 2012. I’m reading and writing about it now because it’s the April selection for CapRadio Reads, Capital Public Radio’s book club.
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