I could not put this book down. What we’ve got here is a working class girl, who employed a Pell grant to go to college, who became a successful writer, who goes back to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio to see what’s going on, to see how it’s changed, to see how all those people […]

If you’re looking for a respite from this mixed up, muddled up, shook up world… I recommend this book. Which I was hesitant about in the beginning, because it’s a “Read with Jenna Pick.” Not that I knew this when I reserved it on Libby a few months back after reading a review in the […]

1 Where were you the first time you heard “More Than a Feeling”? Probably driving around in your car listening to FM radio. This was 1976, the first Ramones LP came out that year, but it took decades for it to go gold. The Stones were changing guitarists. McCartney had followed up 1973’s “Band on […]

There is a courtroom scene in this book that is so tense… That I wanted to tell you about it just then, when I read it. But I figured I’d better finish the book first, to see if it’s good throughout. And it’s GREAT! What you’ve got here is four sections, “Water,” “Earth,” “Fire” and […]