How can you resist the subtitle of Grace Dane Mazur's Hinges? It's Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination. Well, you can't resist it. Not if you're book-ish, and especially not if you're also writer-ish. If book-ish was in the book's index, you might see a reference to
Harper Collins, 2011 I've been fascinated by tales of the resistance movement in WWII since I was a girl. It was sparked by those tales of the brave souls who brought food and goods to the Frank family up in the attic. The idea thrilled me, but I
Hardcover edition, 2006 When the cover of Bitter Chocolate caught her eye, and a co-worker asked me what I was reading, she said "Well, what else would those kids be doing anyway". A brief outline of the child labour practices in the cocoa industry and she could have cared less. She
Looking for talk of George Eliot and Charles Dickens and Muriel Rukeyser? Look no further than Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit. Well, I had to get your attention somehow, right? Because I know that by the time most of you get to the subtitle of this one, your eyes
"If you just read one book this year, read this one." Perhaps more than any other book I've read this year, Monoculture makes me want to say that. Which is ironic: because Monoculture is about one story. (And I know how much you all love to read stories.) The premise
