Book Review

Dana Glossbrenner

Where the Crawdads Sing: A Novel

Author Delia Owens is a zoologist, as a reader will realize. "Where the Crawdads Sing" paints a picture of the outer banks of North...

Dana Glossbrenner

We Can All Use a "Which Way Tree"

Texas author and Spur Award Winner Elizabeth Crook brings home another winner with her historical fiction in "The Which Way Tree." It's...

Dana Glossbrenner

A Writer Adds Spice

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni--a mouthful of a name to remember for this Texan, but well worth the effort when searching for her many books....

Dana Glossbrenner

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith): A Review

I've buried my head in some wonderful books in the past year--The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow...

Dana Glossbrenner

A Review of Iain Pears' "Stone's Fall"

The central mystery of Iain Pears’ Stone’s Fall concerns how John Stone died. Was the rich and powerful ship-building magnate pushed from...

Dana Glossbrenner

A Man Called Ove: A Review

Swedish author Frederick Backman was repeatedly rejected in his attempt to publish his novel, A Man Called Ove. One publisher told him...

Dana Glossbrenner

A Review of Amor Towles' "A Gentleman in Moscow"

Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, saved from being shot after the Russian Revolution because a poem attributed to him expressed the People's...

Dana Glossbrenner

Book Review: The Gold Coast, by Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille’s The Gold Coast, a bestseller from 1990, is a lasting classic. Author of crime series thrillers and a host of other...

Dana Glossbrenner

A Review of "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry," by Gabrielle Zevin

A.J. Fikry is a misanthrope, a misfit, a learned man of books whose irascibility would drive his customers at Island Bookstore elsewhere...