Baseball and good books go together like apple pie and ice cream. Perhaps this is because baseball is a linear, structured sport, which lends itself to storytelling. Or maybe as the American pastime, baseball as a subject matter automatically predisposes …
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Booksellers, librarians and reviewers have been abuzz about Erin Morgenstern’s “The Night Circus” for months, with the debut work receiving starred reviews from Library Journal, BookList and Publisher’s Weekly, as well as appearing at the top of the September 2011 …
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USA Today called the recently released movie version of Kathryn Stockett’s mega-best-seller “The Help” a “surprise summer hit.” This was surprising? To whom? “The Help” has been wildly popular since its publication in 2009. Stockett creates likable and strong female …
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“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Or so said filmmaker Federico Fellini. Many writers seem to hold similar opinions if the number of cooking memoirs on our shelves is any indication. Cooking (of pasta and more) can be …
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Readers are devouring Tiger Mother Amy Chua’s memoir about raising her kids according to the Chinese parenting style. Memoirs about parenting can be controversial, as this book has proven to be, but they can also be enlightening, joyful, heartbreaking or …
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