While indeed elections are contests, their likening to a violent athletic contest makes as much sense as their likening to a beauty contest. In both types of contests, there is a winner, yet the media rely on metaphors that invite… Continue Reading
These Thy Gifts is a forbidden love story spanning 50 years between a priest and the widow of a mobster. It encompasses history, mystery, comedy, gangsters, beautiful women, war, and religion. In 2006, a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church,… Continue Reading
You don’t need anyone to tell you that By Gaslight is epic. One look at this potentially toe-crushing novel is enough to tell that story. At nearly 750 pages, it’s a big book. And though there will be those who… Continue Reading
Reviewed by Hubert O’ Hearn (This is the first of a series of reviews and author interviews examining the current state of US politics.) Let me put it to you this way: We want our governments to decide like Vulcans,… Continue Reading
Heated debate at the Edinburgh International Book Festival recently focused on young adult fiction. Who reads it? Who is it written for? And do those things ever collide? And, perhaps most important of all, how does one to even begin… Continue Reading
True-crime aficionados are going to eat up Trials of the Century: A Decade-by-Decade Look at Ten of America’s Most Sensational Crimes by Mark J. Phillips and Aryn Z. Phillips (Prometheus). But they won’t be the only ones. As the introduction… Continue Reading
Chesapeake Shores, a new series based on the books by Sherryl Woods, airs tonight in the US and on the 25th in Canada. Here’s some backstory from The Morning Ledger: Chesapeake Shores, a series of novels by Sherryl Woods follows… Continue Reading
We always knew that reading to our children was important: raising a reader and all that. But now it looks as though there is even more reason to take the time to read to your kids. And it has everything… Continue Reading
Nikko is happily playing in the backyard of his home when a giant bird swoops down and clasps him firmly in its talons and soars back into the sky leaving his mother desperately crying behind. And so begins an incredible… Continue Reading
It’s what all of us booklovers want: the book that will change our life. Here Lifehack rounds up 25 travel books that will change your life: There are millions of books out there “in the cloud” and in the bookstores,… Continue Reading