Richard Ford is one of America’s great writers. He has a way of answering the question “what is the meaning of life?” in the most direct way possible–by writing about living. “Between Them” is two separate memoirs, one of his mother and one of his father, written 30 years apart. In the memoirs, Ford describes
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs – by Sally Mann
Memoirs can be great or awful. Sometimes a memoir is nothing more than an author’s musings about some specific event in his or her life, with little to offer the reader beyond the author’s singular self-absorbed experience. Too much “me” and very little “why should I care?” That said, I have just read the second
H Is For Hawk – by Helen Macdonald
I know I said I was a fiction fanatic, but when I read good nonfiction I just want to tell the world about it. So let me tell you about “H Is For Hawk”.
Helen Macdonald’s “H Is For Hawk” is a beautifully written and thoughtful book that includes patience as one of its many
When Books Went to War – by Molly Guptill Manning
I know I said I was a fiction freak and that I would be reviewing lots of novels, but I just couldn’t resist a book about books written by a lawyer!
Anybody who is passionate about books and reading will be intrigued to read about the multi-faceted role that books played in World War II,