I wonder if this book is science fiction or the future.
My favorite books of 2024 (so far)
What a tender jewel of a book! I floated through it without resistance. The author, Elisabeth Tova Bailey, is thoroughly disabled, bedridden, frightened. She has one of those autoimmune diseases that has no name, no cure, and little relief. A loving friend brings a gift one day. She has found a tiny snail in theContinue reading “BOOK REVIEW: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey”
This book will make you smile and hug your dog (or cat, or chicken, or pigeon, or goat, or tiger….whatever).
Learning about this tribe is the key virtue of this book; Ms. See’s research is impressive.
T. K. touches the searing, life-or-death buttons of life. Would you, dear writer, dare to do the same?
On vacation, I always try to fill a hole in my literary knowledge by bringing along a book I aspired to read. This time it was Nabokov and Alice and Wonderland. The only Nabokov I had was a yellowed, or rather browned, version of a book I’d never heard of, Pnin, 1957 edition. The coverContinue reading “Vladimir Nabokov’s PNIN”
A definitive, comprehensive, ultimately optimistic investigation into the suicidal mind.
Anyone interested in writing a family memoir would be well advised to follow Cherington’s progress in writing the book, as she allows the reader to do.