‘Newsletter’ Category
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Can You Deal with Grief by Reading a Book a Day for a Year?
0August 22, 2012 by Reader's Connection
Sounds like a whonky idea to me, but Nina Sankovitch gave it a try, and she makes a convincing case for it. Her beloved oldest sister Anne-Marie died of cancer…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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I’m in a Hurry to Tell You about the Amazing Way that Boleto Ends . . .
0August 14, 2012 by Reader's Connection
. . . but I’ll do the right thing and explain what goes on in the novel. It’s a horse story. Will Testerman buys a filly with the idea of training and…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: Alyson Hagy, Boleto
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The Last Policeman!
0July 16, 2012 by Reader's Connection
When writing about St. Paul’s letters, Albert Schweitzer said something to this effect: The belief that the world is coming to an end is not just one belief among others.…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: Ben H. Winters, The Last Policeman
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Is This a Psychiatric Fairy Tale?
0June 19, 2012 by Reader's Connection
I overheard a conversation at the Natatorium in 1991. A fellow taking a break between laps was talking to a woman who was doing the same. He said that the…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: Irvin D. Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure
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He´s Back
2May 15, 2012 by Reader's Connection
He being Thomas Cromwell, blacksmith´s son and trusted advisor to Henry VIII of England. Last year, I raved about Hilary Mantel´s 2009 novel Wolf Hall, in which Cromwell helped Henry divorce his first…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall