Recently, I had the pleasure of reading A Life Less Convenient by Jennifer Burke. I have never read a book that lays out the struggles of an illness as insightful as A Life Less Convenient (ALLC) does. Jennifer Burke deserves a great deal of accolades for putting together this magnificent journey into the love […]

It has been a long time since I’ve read a memoir. Most memoirs that I’ve read in the past are the life and times of various authors through history. Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber, Maya Angelou, to name a few. The two years I spent reading memoirs was spent studying […]

I remember going to the library every Saturday morning for the children’s reading group, and I remember picking out books that had a cool gold seal on the cover (Newbery Book Award winners). I always thought how special children must be because we got the section at the front of the library by the entrance. […]

‘The Hakawati’ is a plethora of tales of heroism, magic, death, victory, love, sex, redemption and lies, and just about everything else you can imagine woven into one story about one guy and his family roots. The main character travels back to his childhood home in Beirut to stand watch at his father’s death […]

I just finished Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. This is a compilation of eight short stories with the common thread being nationality - expatriate Bengali parents and Americanized children were the main character traits. So much of each story delves into the difficult between parents from another country and their americanized children.