Some of my best memories as a kid is of my mom telling us bedtime stories. I have two siblings that I grew up with (I have two additional siblings from subsequent marriages but not until after we were older). Our rooms were at one end of the house, with the bedroom doors […]

Remember the movie “You’ve got Mail” with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks about the small bookstore owner’s livelihood being threatened by the huge chain moving in across the street? I haven’t thought about that movie in years. This morning, though, I was reminded of not the love story, but the trauma caused to […]

Hello friends,
I’ve got several books I’m working on finishing and instead of waiting until I completed one, I thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you about what I’m reading and my initial thoughts on each.
You’ve seen the mini-series ‘Roots’ right? Well, I suggest forget everything you’ve seen in the movie and read the […]

War or Peace?
by Sarah F. Gold - 02/11/2008

Looking at the roots of WWII in Human Smoke (Reviews, Feb. 4), Nicholson Baker concludes that the pacifists were right and Churchill was wrong. He explains why. What prompted you to look at the origins of WWII? I was in the middle of writing another book that was […]

The Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is one of those books that sits on your shelf for a while before you actually crack the spine.
I don’t really know why that is, but I’ve been reading a lot of reviews on this particular book and most people have said they resisted the temptation […]