J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.
“I love to write and I assure you I write regularly,” Salinger said in a brief interview with the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate in...
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“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.
Leaning into the afternoons
I cast my sad nets
towards your...
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In the midst of all the hustle and bustle of the 2009 holiday season I began reading Claudia Hall Christian’s novel The Fey. It immediately pulled me in and so I found myself having to “go to the bathroom” more frequently, because when you have a 6 year old and 7 month old...
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I finished Stephen King’s newest book, “Just After Sunset: Stories“, which is his first collection of short stories. I admit when I bought the book I didn’t read about it first and so I was surprised to find it was a collection of short stories. In fact, I found myself immediately disappointed, but I...
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Sometimes I judge a book by its cover and if the cover appeals to me but I know nothing about the story or the author I may still purchase and read it. That is what happened with this book, “A Hidden Place.” I had not of the author, Robert Charles Wilson, and I never...
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Thomas Wharton wrote a fictitious book about a group of people who basically live in a glacier community called Jasper. It begins with a small group who travel to the Arcturus Glacier in the Canadian Rockies in 1898 to adventure and name mountains and glacial aspects others have never viewed before. Dr. Edward Byrne...
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My father-in-law likes the author James Lee Burke. I had not read any of his books and so for Christmas last year he bought me one as a gift. The book he chose was the newest at the time, titled “Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel.”
First I must tell you I very much...
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Flabbergasted: To cause to be overcome with astonishment.
Ray Blackston’s book “Flabbergasted: A Novel” did not overcome me with astonishment, but I did very much enjoy it. I think the witty banter and dialogue throughout the story between all of the characters was the best part of the writing. It was the communication between strangers...
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This book, by Michael Scott, appealed to me on all levels. For one it mentions Nicholas Flamel in the title and of course my interest was piqued because I knew his name from having read the Harry Potter books; specifically mentioned in the first book of that series.
The cover of The Alchemyst: The Secrets...
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It’s true the book “Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism” could have been read much quicker than I read it, but with the topic of autism it was something I wanted to slowly absorb from the beginning and through to the end.
For some reason I have always had a deep fascination...
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