Every time I pick up a book about the Holocaust, I sit and wonder how on Earth anybody allowed it to happen. It just blows me away. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay covers a part of the Holocaust that I wasn’t aware of. It is about the Vél’ d’Hiv’ roundups of Jews in Paris [...]

The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond is one of the most gripping books that I’ve read in a long time. It begins with Abby Mason, walking a beach in the Bay area with her finance’s 6-year-old daughter, Emma. For one moment, Abby looks away at a dead seal pup on the beach. When she [...]

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb is an incredible coming-of-age story. The protagonist of the story is Dolores Price. It begins with Dolores as a child, and the unraveling of her parents’ marriage. Everything falls apart when Dolores is raped at 13 by her grandmother’s tenant. Dolores deals with the trauma by eating away her [...]

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is a book that takes place during the Great Depression. Jacob Jankowski is a young veterinary student at Cornell, intending then to join his father’s veterinary practice when he is through with his schooling. Just before graduation, his parents are killed in a car accident, and their farm and [...]

Slow news day in Siouxland, I guess. We were the lead story! Hopefully this link will work: Grant on the news Grant was such a good boy. I look and sound like a doofus. Zane stole the show. His outtakes were hysterical! Some of his goofier stuff didn’t make it on, like comments about Grant’s [...]

Still Alice by Lisa Genova is the story of an esteemed Harvard psychology professor. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, John, who is a biology professor at Harvard. They have three grown children in their 20s, and she herself is about to turn 50. As we begin the book, Alice is finding herself being [...]

Don’t be put off by the size of this 1100 page behemoth. It’s a good read that goes fast. It’s hard to put down. And, it will probably improve your upper body strength at the same time. I’ve always been a big fan of old Stephen King, and less impressed with his newer books. But [...]

I need to get back into the habit of writing reveiws of books that I’ve read. Perhaps I can get caught up! The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s newest installment in the Robert Langdon series. As in Angels & Demons and The DiVinci Code, the symbologist finds himself in a sticky situation requiring him to use his expertise in foiling a [...]

I’ve been wanting to say something about the Twilight saga. Let me preface this with the fact that I HAVE read the series, twice in fact, and did enjoy it. It’s a fun read! It’s like a PG Rated version of the Underworld series of films, which I enjoyed. Something bothered me a bit on [...]

I’ve not posted one of my “book reports” in a while. I shall rectify that. Ender’s Game is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, and is the first book in a series following the life of Ender Wiggin. I am not one that normally read scifi, but was intrigued when a friend told [...]