B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsediting / English grammar / language / non-fiction / writing6 Comments
We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help. As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. He is beloved by ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / DNF Reviews1920s / American historical / Contemporary / dual-timeline / Historical / murder-investigation / non-fiction / Opera Singer / prostitute heroine / Venice / Western Romance / Womens-Fiction5 Comments
Bound for Temptation by Tess LeSue Having survived the Oregon Trail, Emma Palmer is ready for a fresh start, even if it costs her all the gold in California. Emma Palmer has had many jobs and has gone by even more names, but most recently she is known as Seline, ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdictionaries / dictionary / English grammar / language / non-fiction7 Comments
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsDoctor / medical research / medicine / non-fictionNo Comments
A gifted surgeon illuminates one of the most profound, awe-inspiring, and deeply affecting achievements of modern day medicine—the movement of organs between bodies—in this exceptional work of death and life that takes its place besides Atul Gawande’s Complications, Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies, and Jerome Groopman’s How Doctors ... more >
Book Reviews / Reading Listsclassic fiction / contemporary fiction / Dystopian fiction / horror / non-fiction / Reading lists / True Crime4 Comments
I’ve been doing these round-ups every three months, but I realized this round of mini-reviews are longish, so I decided to just do October and November. Also reviewed (with Janine, Sirius and Jayne): Spinning Silver. The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder and an Unlikely Investigator by Joakim ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsDoctor / non-fiction / nurse / War / Military / world warNo Comments
A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth. Untold millions who saw and read Band of Brothers can finally know the whole story of what happened to American soldiers and civilians in Bastogne during that arduous Winter of 1944/45. In the ... more >
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