As a reporter for Sports Illustrated and the New York Times, and a former college athlete, Robert Strauss has been involved in sports most of his life. Yet nothing prepared him for the whole new world that opened up when his two young daughters got involved in sports. His lighthearted yet moving new book, Daddy’s…
Lola Shoneyin’s novel, The Secret Lives of the Four Wives, touched me so deeply, bringing up issues that you would hope would be obsolete by now but are unfortunately alive and not-so-well. The story takes place in Nigeria and revolves around Baba Segi and his four wives, who are all such multi-layered characters, you feel like…
We seem to devour Laura Dave’s books around here faster than she can write them so we were thrilled when she sent us a copy of her latest, The First Husband. Once again, she’s written a page-turner about our favorite subject — love. Don’t let the fact that her novels are so readable fool you,…
We love books that are not only great stories but that also teach us something we never knew. We can always count on Geraldine Brooks to do that — People of the Book, Year of Wonders and March should all be required reading in history classes. In her new novel, Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine introduces us…
It’s not summer without a reading list — although we never seem to get through all the books we include on it! We have stacks and stacks of books spread out among our three houses as we figure out which ones to write about or ask readers to review, which ones to share with you…
