‘Book Review’ Category
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The Fall of the House of Dixie
0February 4, 2013 by Reader's Connection
In Glen Park, which at the time was an all-white section of Gary, in a bar where the white racism ran pretty deep, I first learned that our American Civil…
Category Book Review | Tags: Bruce Levine, The Fall of the House of Dixie
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The Maid of Lorraine
0February 1, 2013 by Reader's Connection
The range of literature about the life of Joan of Arc reaches far and wide, and tends to be highly academic. I recently discovered a more accessible volume, The Maid:…
Category Book Review | Tags: Kimberly Cutter, The Maid
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You don’t like snow? Be thankful you’re not on the road in 13th-century England.
0January 24, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Hob, an orphan, a “half-grown boy,” has been adopted by a travelling healer-musician named Molly. With her granddaughter Nemain and a strongman named Jack, they are travelling through harsh winter…
Category Book Review | Tags: Douglas Nicholas, Something Red
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A Gate at the Stairs
0January 16, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Tassie Keltjin, the narrator of Lorrie Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs, is attending college and lives in a Midwestern college town. She is hired by an exotic couple,…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
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When I Was an 18-Year-Old I Did Things with Rats
0January 8, 2013 by Reader's Connection
I got teary-eyed reading the first essay in Marilynne Robinson’s 2012 collection When I Was a Child I Read Books. It’s called “Freedom of Thought,” which doesn’t sound original; and if…
Category Book Review | Tags: Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books