1 I finished this book Sunday night. I started it Sunday morning. I wasn’t hooked at first, but then I got into it and… I was going to write about it yesterday, but I had two hour long phone calls and I’m still wound up after those. They were personal, not business. One the follow-up […]

It’s like an Elizabeth Strout novel. That’s what someone e-mailed me when I was halfway through “The Correspondent” and the similarity resonated, as in you’ve got normal women, not famous, not setting the world on fire, and their lives, opinions, personalities. Not that Virginia Evans is in the league of Elizabeth Strout. If you’ve never […]

You don’t want to read this book. I’m only bothering to write about it because it’s been on the best seller list for months. Books are not like music, you don’t get to experience it before you buy it, so with the accolades and sales many people are purchasing this book, and I won’t say […]

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 […]