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If you have memories of college romance and the way those early moments of youthful love can impact the rest of your life, then Heart the Lo...

The Doorman is kind of a thriller, but it is more a view of a classic old New York doorman building and the wealthy who reside there. Descri...

In the three Joan Silber novels I've read she links together the lives of her character through thin threads that connect one to the oth...

Not my usual thing, but not a bad read. Charlie, a young woman working in publishing, becomes involved with Richard, a much older, successfu...

  An entertaining quick read. Although there is a some violence, I thought of this novel as one of happenstance. As troubles pile up on Rhys...

A year for classics. Another book I read because it was recommended by my mom. I am surprised. Something this dark is not her usual type of ...

I  remember reading  Mrs. Dalloway when I was in college and loving the story. Now, 100 years after publication, Virginia Woolf's maste...

  A quick missing person mystery set in Maine on the Appalachian Trail. When Sparrow, or Valerie Gillis, disappears while hiking the trail, ...

The Emperor of Gladness is a compelling and intriguing novel that is kind of a magical realism mix of an emotional young man, a woman with ...

I love daily cartoons, and I really love Harry Bliss's daily cartoon, Bliss, and I am very fond of his dog Penny who is depicted in many...