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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Oct 6, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Apr 12, 2019
- 2 min
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....
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Jan 18, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Aug 6, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Oct 18, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Jun 15, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Feb 6, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Feb 2, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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Dana Glossbrenner
- Jan 8, 2017
- 1 min
"Listen for the Mourning Dove": A Review
I read this book by a fellow West Texas lady, F.C. Pearce, between bouts of cooking for all my beloved Christmas company. It wasn't about...
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