***Book Review: While Justice Sleeps, by Stacey Abrams
Let me start by stating that I’m a big fan of Stacey Abrams. I admire her intelligence, tenacity and success....
*****Book Review: Black Bottom Saints, by Alice Randall
Although Alice Randall’s Black Bottom Saints is not an epistolary novel, it read like a love letter to this famous...
****Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O’Neil
There are several wonderful things about the book club I’ve been in for many years: thirteen women get along, we...
*****Book Review: Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
Until I read Bryan Stevenson’s gut-wrenching book “Just Mercy,” I thought I was well informed on inequities in the American...
****Review, Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson
Woodson’s compact novel, “Red at the Bone” is a tenderly written multigenerational story. It covers love, sexuality, sorrow, independence and...
***Book Review: Take Me With You, by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The opening premise for Catherine Ryan Hyde’s novel, Take Me With You, quickly drew me into what I sensed was...
*****Book Review: The Long Take, by Robin Robertson
The Long Take by Robin Robertson is a beautifully composed but dark narrative poem about Walter, a traumatized World War...
*****Book Review: Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
About fifty pages in, it becomes obvious why Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken” has topped bestseller lists for three years and is...
**** Book Review: Life is a Wheel, by Bruce Weber
LIFE IS A WHEEL, by Bruce Weber is a memoir of his 4000-plus mile, 79 day bicycle ride across America...