REVIEW: Love in the Time of Cholera Reading it was like a river journey, swaying and floating from one port to another on an invisible, seamless current. Once you are on board, disembarkation seems impossible.
BOOK REVIEW: Frankenstein Meets Santa May we, like the elves, find the time and enough love in our hearts to welcome the foreigner, the unbeliever, the lonely stranger half crazy from grief, and turn him into a valued member of our communities.
BOOK REVIEW: Disgrace Behind every word the reader can sense the implacable tread of life itself moving warily, silently, away from oblivion. By any means necessary.
BOOK REVIEW: Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie carries a dozen boldly sketched characters through 588 engrossing pages with a tale that pokes into our (surprisingly sensitive) national and racial selves.
BOOK REVIEW: Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky This is a magnificent book, and I am not alone in thinking so. The New York Times Book Review calls it a “tour de force,” others compare it to Madame Bovary and War and Peace.
REVIEW: Peanut Butter and Naan Magnuson skitters over the top of her Indian experience, barely able to breathe.
REVIEW: The Coconut Latitudes If forgiveness can bloom for the Gardner family, then there is hope for us all.
Review: Anarchy and Old Dogs Dr. Siri is the wise-cracking Laotian septuagenarian national coroner of Laos. That’s funny already, right?
BOOK REVIEW; The Narrow Road to the Deep North The point of this brilliant book is that life is, and there is simply nothing more to say. So, logically, I should just stop here, but I’m not yet mistress of the short form.