How Jack London Changed My Life

God’s Country – Percival Everett I usually write reviews of all books I make it at least halfway through, but there was an exception. Here’s...

Reviews from the past Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Mr. Darcy was a problem for me, one that never went away. For most of the book Auste...

The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros The edition I had was Knoph’s tenth anniversary “celebration” of the book’s initial publication....

Image of Josephine – Booth Tarkington Tarkington produced dozens of works – mostly fiction, but also a good number of plays and non-fiction....

Re-reads Hotel Splendide – Ludwig Bemelmans When Bemelmans immigrated to the United States he got a job at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel as a bus...

Re-reads  Hunger – Knut Hamsun (Norwegian) The unnamed narrator dominates the reader’s sensibilities with a completeness that few novels can...

Re-reads The Duke of Deception – Geoffrey Wolff This book elicited a strong reaction in me, so for that alone it’s significant. It’s subtitl...

Re-reads The Groves of Academe – Mary McCarthy Perplexing. First, why is this a re-read? In one sense that’s easy to answer – because it was...

Re-reads Dom Casmurro – Machado de Assis (Portuguese) This novel, published in Brazil in 1900 and written by a grandson of a slave, is stran...

Re-reads Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh Welcome to the Wonderful World of Waugh! He stated that he intended this first novel to be funny – ...

Re-reads Morte D’Urban – J. F. Powers A novel about a Catholic priest? Not interested? Well, it’s your loss. I too avoid novels with a relig...

Re-reads The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein As you can see, there’s something odd about the title/author. This “autobiogr...

Re-reads The Blood of the Lamb – Peter De Vries The last third of this novel is an emotional experience. Not just for me, but for you too, i...