Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler A Spool of Blue Thread is Anne Tyler’s 20th novel, and, as with most of her works, it centers on family life in and around Baltimore. She tells the story of the Whitshanks, who “like most families…imagined they were special.” Abby...
Feb 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Book of William By Paul Collins Shakespeare’s First Folio: no printed book has had each copy so obsessively cataloged, studied, and coveted. Scholars study and analyze past owners’ doodles in the margins, and some specialize in examining the stress on the type to...
Feb 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Language of Flowers By Vanessa Diffenbaugh The foster care system has been hard on Victoria Jones, and has left her with a number of reasons to mistrust people and build up walls to keep them at bay. Victoria has cycled through the foster care systems, living with...
Feb 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Mad Men, The Final Season, Part 2 (DVD) We live in the golden age of television. There are simply so many good television shows being created that it’s difficult to pick which ones are most deserving of our time. I’ll admit to being a fan of shows ranging from...
Feb 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
A Visit From the Goon Squad By: Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel (2011), A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a short, perfectly designed novel with a lot to say. The theme of the novel is best described by Scotty, a down on his luck janitor and...
