Penguin, 1993 So you know, from my thoughts on Regeneration, how much of a talking-to I had to give myself to keep reading Pat Barker's brilliant war novels. But as much as I might be a cowardly reader, I'm also a stubborn reader, so I made sure that
Pat Barker's Regeneration (1991) Come on, admit it: you've avoided reading this because it's a war novel. It's okay: you're not alone. And how can a book about the horrors of war compete, when reading time is limited and it would be so much more fun to re-read Miss Pettigrew
Pat Capponi's The Corpse will Keep (2008) Following Dana Leoni's debut appearance, in Pat Capponi's Last Stop Sunnyside, is a tough act. The series launched the reader into a world that's quite likely unfamiliar to the majority of readers, though certainly familiar to its author, whose years of activist work
I became fascinated with Agatha Christie novels when my friend Sheila started reading them in the eighth grade. Maybe her copy of The Body in the Library might have belonged to her older sister or to her mother: I’m not sure where her copy came from, but I was sure
