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Marge Speidel
Rereading Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping'
April 24, 2013
Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. But 24 years earlier, “Housekeeping,” her first novel, was published. Written in beautiful, haunting prose with no words wasted, "Housekeeping" follows two young sisters as they change custodial hands and come to terms as they come of age. Read more »
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The Library, a Special Spot
April 17, 2013
For many of us there’s a special place where we are always comfortable and content. It might be landing somewhere to start a trip, for some. The corner coffee shop appeals to many. Being in a theater or concert hall with the performance about to ... Read more »
Book Review
The Precise Prose of 'Anatomy of a Disappearance'
March 26, 2013
Hisham Matar's "Anatomy of a Disappearance" is an enrapturing exploration of longing and mystery. Read more »
Book Review
The Shadow Girls: A Narrative Journey
March 5, 2013
A story with many layers, this novel opened my eyes to the to the horrors of human trafficking. Read more »
Book Review
The Wit of 'An Available Man'
January 17, 2013
This is one of the funniest books I have had the pleasure of reading in a long time. Funny as in a chuckle or outright laugh on almost every page. Read more »
Book Review
'Dreamers of the Day' Educates and Excites Readers
December 11, 2012
Authors keep doing innovative things to surprise and delight. Now it is Mary Doria Russell’s Dreamers of the Day that includes T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) and Winston Churchill as living, breathing characters. Read more »
Book Review
A Struggle for Survival: Lost in the Atlantic
November 13, 2012
When I first came across this novel I was intrigued by the idea of the struggle for survival by passengers who made it into lifeboats after a big passenger liner sunk in the Atlantic. It takes place in 1914; two years after the Titanic went ... Read more »
Sherlock Holmes is Back on the Case
November 6, 2012
Laurie R. King is a writer of mysteries who has done something truly audacious — taken a renowned fictional character and inserted him into her own books. He is Sherlock Holmes, a man who has explored mysteries in a number of imaginative situations under King’s ... Read more »
“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.”
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