19+ hour, 13+ min ago  (672+ words) There is probably no book I've recommended more often across a broad swath of readers than Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go Bernadette?" The first thing I would say to people is that the book is funny, as in genuinely comic,…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (723+ words) The Masters Tournament is a golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia that ends Sunday and many of you couldn't care less. Let's get something straight up front: Golf is a stupid game, and I say this having…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (149+ words) Step into the spotlight with book picks straight from the stars with the Amazing Book Challenge category, Celebrity Book Club. This theme features must-read recommendations from your favorite celebrities" book clubs, including Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, Oprah Winfrey and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (674+ words) There were times while reading Ani Katz's taut, propulsive new novel, "Haven," that I thought I was losing my mind. "Haven" is set in a quasi-dystopian near future where climate change has made less of the planet habitable and the…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (665+ words) Tom Layward, the narrator of Ben Markovits" Booker finalist novel, "The Rest of Our Lives," doesn"t know what he"s supposed to do. That choice of "could" rather than "should" or "would" is an important window into where Tom…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (830+ words) The heartbreak was, I'd be standing there in my tar-blackened flannel shirt on the corner, and the woman was so nice and she said, "Oh, you know, you're kind overqualified," he recalled in a Zoom video interview with the Tribune…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (193+ words) NEW YORK " Ren'e Watson's "All the Blues in the Sky," in which the author blends poetry and prose to tell the story of a teen confronting the death of her best friend, has won the John Newbery Medal for the…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (784+ words) Every so often, an author in translation with a hit novel series in their home country or region arrives to the U. S. and becomes a fresh phenomenon in the States. Recent examples include Elena Ferrante with her quartet of Neapolitan novels…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (583+ words) When I tallied the contenders for my fiction Biblioracle Book of the Year Awards, I counted 32 contenders. This means I had a great year, personally, when it came to reading fiction. It also means there are many books worthy of…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (347+ words) Is it really the end of the year? This award is shared by Ruth Franklin's "The Many Lives of Anne Frank" and Nicholas Boggs' "Baldwin: A Love Story." The title characters are at the center of both books, but in…...