Having read my fair share of books about running amok in 1970s New York, I knew Normal People Don’t Live Like This had a natural place on my shelves. It is the tale of Leah Levinson as she makes her way through high school into adulthood. Set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, author…
Have you ever done anything you regretted? Have you ever wished that you could go back in time and correct it? That is what the fascinating part memoir/part introspective journey, Unfinished Business, is about. Author Lee Kravitz was the uber busy editor-in-chief of Parade magazine. He worked too hard, too long and too intensely at his…
Since there are an almost infinite number of books and a finite amount of time in which to read them before I close my last chapter, I generally have certain “criteria” when picking a novel. I try to find books that have interesting plot lines and compelling characters. Unless I am in the mood for…
One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand. I would lie awake in bed at night, counting from the crack of thunder to the explosive flash of lightning. Windows rattled and my heart pounded in synchronicity during those summer Mid-western thunderstorms. The novel, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, awakens our own personal experiences…
My father would be the first to confirm my lifetime membership in the “Rebels from the Start” club. Indeed, even as you read this, I’m quietly using instructional time to teach basic morals, manners and “The Golden Rule” in school, while donning white after Labor Day, so the title of this book was literally SCREAMING…
