Book Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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”
ON ANIMALS, by Susan Orlean
This book will make you smile and hug your dog (or cat, or chicken, or pigeon, or goat, or tiger….whatever).
THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE, by Lisa See
Learning about this tribe is the key virtue of this book; Ms. See’s research is impressive.
SOMETIMES A BOOK IS LIFE, NOT ART
T. K. touches the searing, life-or-death buttons of life. Would you, dear writer, dare to do the same?
Vladimir Nabokov’s PNIN
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”
HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF, by Clancy Martin
A definitive, comprehensive, ultimately optimistic investigation into the suicidal mind.
How To Write A Family Memoir
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.