Book Review: Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths”
A dramatic story of the many paths possible in the future wrapped in a tale of a Chinese man spying for the Germans in World War I who fears being captured.
Genre: non-fiction
Book Review: Mary L. Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough
An insider’s look at what made Donald Trump the man he is.
Book Review: Rupert Isaacson’s The Horse Boy
An impossible adventure in Mongolia, where a family found advances beyond their wildest dreams. Willing to go to the ends of the earth to help their son who learns to connect with the world for the first time.
Book Review: Lee Child’s The Hero
Explore heroes from Achilles to Bond, as a fundamental part of what makes us human. How hero stories shape our world – arguing that we need them now more than ever.
Book Review: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s On the Banks of Plum Creek
More Ingalls adventures as the family travels to Minnesota where Pa gets them in deep with a new house. It’ll be one challenge after another with blizzards, grasshoppers, and snooty girls.
Book Review: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie
Pa Ingalls sells the Little House and the family sets out for Indian country. After building another little house, the family tiptoes around the Indians as they work their farm.
Book Review: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Farmer Boy
Growing up on his family’s farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing— his very own horse. But Father doesn’t yet trust him with such a big responsibility. Almanzo needs to prove himself—but how?
Book Review: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods
First in the Little House series, join Laura Ingalls Wilder in her real-life adventures living in a log cabin along with her family. Growing or catching all their own food, the Ingalls make the best of every tough situation.
Book Review: Leslie Handler’s Rats, Mice, and Other Things You Can’t Take to the Bank
A memoir of Handler’s life and views expressed in a standalone collection of hilarious essays that tell it like it is from Mom’s point-of-view.
Book Review: Bridget Quinn’s Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
An educational and enjoyable read from Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism, complete with images of their works and contemporary portraits of 15 major women artists through the ages.