08.26.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Larsson’s take on Strauss-Kahn case? Men. Women. Power. Money. Sex. Truth. These are the final winding down days of the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape of an African hotel maid, and...
07.06.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Some savory reads for the summer I finally have an acceptable reason to dislike Philip Roth. I read “Portnoy’s Complaint” when I was a kid, because we all did, snickering at the “dirty” parts. There...
06.06.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Light reading? You won’t find it here Events pile up and tend to obliterate each other as time passes. There was a huge earthquake and tsunami in Japan and yet now that Bin Laden has been...
03.14.2011 Uncategorized Book Column: An imaginative meeting of minds I am part of “Imaginative Worlds,” a new book group at Floyd Memorial Library that consists of children who are 9 to 11 years old and their grown-ups, usually...
01.17.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Raise your butter beer to J.K. Rowling Start with an image of a single mother on welfare walking around Edinburgh, pushing a pram until her baby daughter falls asleep, then ducking into the nearest café to...