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Book of the Week: ASK AVIGAIL by Shashi Ishai
Shashi Ishai’s, ASK AVIGAIL: ADVICE FROM A BIBLICAL-ERA SAGETTE; a Dear Abby-like sage from the times of Moses tarries with Erma Bombeck and Woody Allen in the desert.
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Book of the Week: LUCY GAYHEART by Willa Cather
Willa Cather’s, LUCY GAYHEART; a girl leaves her home town to study music in Chicago.
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Book of the Week: ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand’s, ATLAS SHRUGGED; Howard Roark wants to control the world, and he almost succeeds; a “continuation” of The Fountainhead.
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Book of the Week: THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH; in the cruel rarified world of early 20th century New York Society, Lily Bart loses her wealthy suitor, her shallow social circle, and ends her life in poverty.
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March 2018 Book Recommendations
Judith Rossner’s ATTACHMENTS; two close female friends fall in love with Siamese twins. Carson McCullers’s, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING; twelve-year-old Frankie is bored with everything; then, she learns...
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Book of the Week: ATTACHMENTS by Judith Rossner
Judith Rossner’s ATTACHMENTS; two close female friends fall in love with Siamese twins.
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Book of the Week: THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING by Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers’s, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING; twelve-year-old Frankie is bored with everything; then, she learns her brother is getting married, and hopes to be invited on the honeymoon.
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Book of the Week: CAMILLA by Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L’Engle’s CAMILLA; a novel about the vicissitudes of young love.
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Book of the Week: THE OTHER SIDE OF ETHEL MERTZ
Frank Castelluccio’s and Alvin Walker’s, THE OTHER SIDE OF ETHEL MERTZ; a biography of the under-appreciated actress, Vivian Vance.
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April 2018 Book Recommendations
Jim Bishop’s THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT; a tense hour-by-hour account of the assassination and its aftermath. Rebecca Stead’s WHEN YOU REACH ME; twelve-year-old Miranda loses her best friend, Sal, and...
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Book of the Week: THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT by Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop’s THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT; a tense hour-by-hour account of the assassination and its aftermath.
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Book of the Week: WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead’s WHEN YOU REACH ME; twelve-year-old Miranda loses her best friend, Sal, and suddenly her world goes topsy-turvy; a Newbery winner, influenced by A Wrinkle in Time.
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Book of the Week: THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES: A MOTHER AND SON ON LIFE, LOVE,...
Anderson Cooper’s and Gloria Vanderbilt’s THE RAINBOW COMES AND GOES: A MOTHER AND SON ON LIFE, LOVE, AND LOSS; an intimate, “getting-to-know-you-better” discussion via a year of e-mails.
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Book of the Week: MARYA: A LIFE by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates’s MARYA: A LIFE; a woman’s progression from a childhood of violence, to fame and artistic acclaim.
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Book of the Week: DAVITA’S HARP by Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok’s DAVITA’S HARP; a girl growing up in 1930s and 1940s New York, defies her parents’ Judaism by identifying with it.
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May 2018 Book Recommendations
David Niven’s, THE MOON’S A BALLOON; Hollywood in its heyday; volume one of the actor’s memoirs. Anthony Quinn’s and Daniel Paisner’s, ONE MAN TANGO; from pauperism in Mexico, to award-winning actor of...
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Book of the Week: THE MOON’S A BALLOON by David Niven
David Niven’s, THE MOON’S A BALLOON; Hollywood in its heyday; volume one of the actor’s memoirs.
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Book of the Week: ONE MAN TANGO by Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn’s and Daniel Paisner’s, ONE MAN TANGO; from poverty in Chihuahua, Mexico to award-winning actor of stage and film; an autobiography.
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Book of the Week: YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE by Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine’s, YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE; the actress’s time on George McGovern’s presidential campaign, an early trip to China, and a return to movie-making; a memoir.
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Book of the Week: EMMELINE by Judith Rossner
Judith Rossner’s, EMMELINE; poverty, seduction and incest in a small town.
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