The turn of a new year is as good a time as any to revisit our plans and perhaps read a horoscope or two. For some people these predictions are literal. Others find it to be an amusement but nothing more. This book asserts nothing about Nostradamus’s ability or even prognosticators in general. Instead, Gerson…
REVIEW: SOUNDINGS by Hali Felt
I’d never heard of Marie Tharp. The only woman I’d ever heard of remotely related to anything to do with the bottom of the ocean was a woman in a portrait at my parents-in-law’s house. She was named Nannie (Maury) Herndon. A member of my husband’s ancestors, her father was an oceanographer and was the…
REVIEW: THE WOMAN BEFORE WALLIS by Andrew Rose
Before Edward took up with American socialite Wallis Simpson, before he gave up the crown and eschewed his duties as the King of England, the young prince was involved in an even more scandalous relationship. A antsy and angsty Prince is assigned to duty in France during WWI. Seeing as he was poised to take…
REVIEW: THE MAN FROM PRIMROSE LANE by James Renner
This book is a bizarre and twisted that deals with obsession. Told primarily in the third person but from the point-of-view of reporter and best-selling true crime author David Neff. With a nose for finding stories, David takes possession of an abandoned box of clippings and files about a cold case. The more he reads,…
REVIEW: ALIBIS by Andre Aciman
When I set to read a book that I plan to review, I come at it a little differently than just reading for fun. I make notes, mental and written, about style or themes that I want to mention in the review. And I dogear pages that have a passage I want to quote. Sometimes…