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 [...]

This is the first that I've picked up by this author, and it was ofcourse one in a series, but I was still able to make sense of itwithout reading the preceding books. Sean and Michelle are former Secret Service agents turned privatedetectives. When the President's niece is kidnapped, the First Ladycalls her old friend, [...]

This is the first that I've picked up by this author, and it was ofcourse one in a series, but I was still able to make sense of itwithout reading the preceding books. Myron Bolitar is an ex-NBA player that now works as an agent forcelebrities. He gets a call from an old friend who [...]

Wow. This book was amazing, and nothing like I expected. It made mecry and disturbed me, but I also found it beautiful and touching. The book is about a young Mormon family that moves from Indiana to atown in North Carolina. Step, the father, is a software developer. Hiswife, DeAnne, is a stay-at-home mom. They [...]

Judas Coyne is an aging rock star with a collection of various morbid items, often gifts from fans. When he finds a ghost for sale in an online auction, he can’t resist himself and purchases it. He gets a supposedly haunted suit in the mail. Soon he begins to see the ghost around his home, [...]