Category: Review

Anna Quindlen has a devoted following of readers, not only because of five best-selling novels, but also books of nonfiction, columns in both the New York Times and Newsweek, and movies based on her fiction.

In the follow up to her first novel, Return to Sawyer School, Rosemary Hintz delivers yet another captivating novel about growing up during the war years of the 1940s in Home Coming.

Reading Pete Nelson’s novel I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story was a guilty pleasure, like eating a tater tot casserole or listening to country music.

 For so many of us, our most indelible memories are those we have of our childhood homes and neighborhoods.

If you haven’t read this book and absolutely intend to do so, stop here. If you think you ought to read it but keep putting it off, continue with this review; your intuition is telling you something.

In Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Timothy Brook presents a new vision of this great painter’s art.

The string of very good Burton books remains unbroken. It continues intact with Door County’s Islands, the fifth contribution to the Door County bookshelf from this prolific husband and wife writing team.

In the last year we have had a group of quality writers contributing reviews for publication in the literature section.

What, exactly, were you thinking? Obviously, not the right thing, that’s for sure.

You know you shouldn’t have done it. It wasn’t a good idea, right from the get-go, but you couldn’t help yourself.

The string of very good Burton books remains unbroken. It continues intact with Door County’s Islands, the fifth contribution to the Door County bookshelf from this prolific husband and wife writing team.

Alibi

By Teri Woods

Grand Central Publishing, 2009

What would you do if an old friend asked you to lie?

Just a little white lie – who would know? One tiny fib is nothing, and it won’t hurt anybody.

Have you ever seen The Perfect Dog? Of course you have.

Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz

By Belinda Acosta

Grand Central Publishing, 2009

Once upon a time, your baby girl was a snuggly little sweetheart.

Words on Water is a gem of a book authored by Richard (Dick) Purinton and published recently by Norb Blei’s Cross+Roads Press. The subtitle, “A Ferryman’s Journal, Washington Island, WI” is more instructive about the book’s contents than is the title.

Crooked:  A History of Cheating in Sports
By Fran Zimnuich
Taylor Trade, 2009

You probably heard your father say it when you were a babe in arms.

Green Bay author Lynda Drews has authored an intriguing entry into the active field of True Crime writing with Run at Destruction.

Magnificent Desolation
By Buzz Aldrin with Ken Abraham
2009, Harmony Books

Imagine that you went to work one day and changed the world.

Why is it that we are so fascinated with old paintings?

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The Glorious Fourth of July
By Diane C. Arkins
2009, Pelican Publishing Company $19.95

Presents won’t be necessary, but your presence is appreciated.