Jane Whitefield has been living quietly with her doctor husband in Amherst, New York, when the eight mothers of her Seneca clan descend on her in force. Her childhood friend, Jimmy Sanders, in under investigation for a murder he did not commit. Find him, the clan mothers tell Jane, and leave behind a string…
A Shropshire Lad: II by A.E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.…
So I did my usual spring thing on Coffee Table on KBBI this morning, talking with Daysha Eaton and Quinton Chandler and everyone who called in about great summer reads. Here are all the books mentioned on the show today, and if I missed any or you didn’t make it to the phone in time,…
Yet another recommendation from Smart Bitches Trashy Books, here is a romance novel for grownups. London stage actor Richard has an attitude problem and the producers of his current play decide a fake romance with second lead Lainie is just the thing to rehabilitate his public persona. She despises him and he is barely…
From Storyknife’s blog on Friday. Calling all women writers…
Like everyone else I’ve heard White on NPR but this is the first of her books I’ve read. This is sort of a memoir of her life in Florida told in anecdotal fits and starts and starring herself, her mother who runs off with a boat load of anthropologists, the local ornithologists who put…
Genre-bending graphic novel about a little girl, Nimona, with special powers, or maybe that’s special powers with a little girl inside them, who forces her services upon a wanna-be villain. There is some fun stuff here, like the big bad Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics, and names like Ballister Blackheart and Sir Goldenloin,…
Read more “Are you pissed you’re not the fairest of them all?”
The Prodigal Son’s Brother Steve Kowit who’d been steadfast as small change all his life forgave the one who bounced back like a bad check the moment his father told him he ought to. After all, that’s what being good means. In fact, it was he who hosted the party, bought the crepes & champagne,…
Read more With each drink another toast to his brother: ex-swindler, hit-man & rapist.
Part 1 of news from Storyknife this week–Part 2 comes Friday. In the meantime, meet Erin!
This is the story the Boston Globe did on pedophile priests that published in 2002 and exposed the culture of pedophilia in the Catholic Church nation- and worldwide. I’ve read some history and I have a lot of time spent in Ireland where the Church behaved even worse to its members (see the Ryan and…
Read more “How come there is no mention of Geoghan going to hell?”