True confession. I am not a football fan. I don't know one play from another and when dragged to a high school game by my husband, will patiently wait until half-time and then beg to leave. (Let's hear it for the marching band!) But after listening to BACKFIELD BOYS (August, 2017 Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) by sports journalist John… Continue reading Backfield Boys: A Football Mystery- Audio CD Review and Giveaway
Please see last week’s blog for the first part of my review of the audio CD of The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions, and the People. What follows is only a sampling of what Gilmour covers in this comprehensive history of a country he obviously loves. You have to read… Continue reading The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples- An Audio Book Review and Giveaway. Part II
Thanks to so many of you who visited last week's blog on Joyce Hostetter's cover reveal of DRIVE. The post had 1067 opens--which makes it the third most viewed post on my blog! ****** If you are a secret Italophile or dream of touring Venice, Florence, and Pompeii like I do, then this book is for… Continue reading The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples- An Audio Book Review and Giveaway. Part I
This literary masterpiece revives the ideological debates of the interwar period through the journal of a Romanian Jewish student caught between anti-Semitism and Zionism. Although he endures persistent threats just to attend lectures, he feels disconnected from his Jewish peers and questions whether their activism will be worth the cost. Spending his days walking the… Continue reading For Two Thousand Years: A Review and Audio Book Giveaway
Congratulations to Joan Edwards, a faithful follower of this blog, for winning Cleo Edison Oliver in Persuasion Power on last week's post. I stumbled upon JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT: ROCK AND ROLL AND THE RACIAL IMAGINATION (Harvard University Press, 2016) while perusing Tantor Audio's huge list of audio books. Here's the blurb that drew my attention: Rooted… Continue reading Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and The Racial Imagination- A Review and Audio Book Giveaway
Congratulations to Rosi Hollinbeck, my California blogger counterpart, who won FUZZY on last week's blog. REVIEW FIRE, COLOR, ONE by Jenny Valentine is about as different from FUZZY, the book I reviewed last week, as you can get. Jenny Valentine's edgy young adult novel is a serious portrayal of Iris, a young woman caught up in… Continue reading Fire, Color, One: An Audio Book Giveaway, Review, A Look at Flashbacks, PLUS Story Innovation