The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, and translated from the French by Alison Anderson, is told...
Giving up everything else for passion
I don’t read a lot of historical fiction, but I saw Loving Frank by Nancy Horan at a...
Summer Reading
Tomorrow is the first day of fall, though it doesn’t feel like it yet, here in Central Oregon....
Is it worth using a simile if it has to be a bad one?
Lately I have been noticing something about a lot of novels (and other books, too) that I find...
What do rats and pigs have in common?
T. C. Boyle answers that question in his 2011 novel When the Killing’s Done about the decision to...