Tinkers opens with George Crosby, lying on a bed in the living room of the home he built himself, as his mind swirls and flows between the reality of his family gathered to bid him goodbye to the most exquisite reminiscences on life itself and his place in its great tiled framework. …I will remain a set of impressions porous and open to combination with all of the other ... Read More...
Woman with a Gun
Stacy Adams wants to write a novel but is finding it difficult while stuck in a dead-end job as a receptionist at a NYC law firm. When she comes across a provocative photo of a woman wearing a wedding dress clutching an antique gun behind her back at the edge of the ocean she is instantly inspired and decides that this photo will be the basis for her novel. She learns it was ... Read More...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Imagine you are a nineteen-year-old soldier and while stationed in Iraq your squad came under insurgent attack in an isolated area. You commit a heroic act of bravery and leave your vehicle to try and save a friend who is being dragged away by the enemy. A Fox news crew captures the entire attack and when it goes viral you are all brought back to the United States to be ... Read More...
The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell sets her novel The Other Typist in 1920s New York City where Rose is one of a new kind of working woman, earning her living as a typist for the police department. She is an orphan living a quiet simple life despite working in a job that exposes her to some of the roughest men in the city. When Abolition begins, the department needs additional typists as ... Read More...
Shop Small and Independent
Today is Small Business Saturday so just a quick reminder that as you begin the shopathon that may constitute your life leading up to Christmas please keep your local retailers in mind. Especially (of course!) the book stores. I happened to stop by the University Book Store here in Seattle and was dazzled and enthralled by how creative they are with their displays and what ... Read More...
The Moment of Everything
First of all, if you tell me a book is about a young woman who gets a master’s degree in library science, loses her job and ends up spending her days hanging around the local used book store, I’ll have my credit card out before your words disappear. Librarian? In. Unemployed? In. Book store? All the way in. So, there was no doubt I was going to read Shelly King’s The Moment of ... Read More...
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 220
- 221
- 222
- 223
- 224
- …
- 292
- Next Page »
