by Carol Jane Morrison | May 7, 2016 | Book Reviews
“Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee I waited hard, along with a jillion other TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD fans, for the follow up to that beloved novel. I knew that GO SET A WATCHMAN is not really a sequel, but was written before TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. I read the...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Apr 14, 2016 | Book Reviews
“The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy” by Rachel Joyce I spotted THE LOVE SONG OF MISS QUEENIE HENNESSY in Elliot Bay Bookstore in Seattle. When I saw it was the follow-up to THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRYE, which I reviewed last July, I bought...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Mar 15, 2016 | Book Reviews
“My Name is Lucy Barton” by Elizabeth Strout I fell in writerly love with Elizabeth Strout when she spoke at a writer’s conference I attended. She had just finished writing OLIVE KITTERIDGE, with one of the finest character portrayals I’d read....
by Carol Jane Morrison | Feb 9, 2016 | Book Reviews
“Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME is not an easy read. I spent more time than usual re-reading passages and looking up definitions. I’m pleased that my vocabulary is now enriched. The descriptions of the...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 18, 2016 | Book Reviews
“Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Krueger “That was it. That was all of it,” Frank Drum says. “A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” I...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Dec 12, 2015 | Book Reviews
“Second Wind” by Dr. Bill Thomas The anthem, “Peace, Love, and Barbecue,” on my husband Ed’s apron, proclaims him an aging Baby Boomer. Boomers are Dr. Bill Thomas’s subject and target audience in his inspiring book, SECOND WIND. Every eight to ten...
