May 3, 2012
AN ELEGANT COLLAGE OF a memoir from writer, art historian Rosamond Bernier; fun and gossipy about the greats.
Grade: SOLID B
SOME OF MY LIVES: A SCRAPBOOK MEMOIR
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011
Tags: Art History, Literary History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Visual Arts
May 2, 2012
CHARMING COZY MYSTERY set in small-town coastal Maine features a local newspaper reporter (and mom) as sleuth.
Grade: SOLID B
CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER
Kensington
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
May 1, 2012
INTRICATE VICTORIAN TALE of horror finds ghosts and vampires haunting London’s literati. Chilling and poetic!
Grade: A MINUS
HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Novels
April 30, 2012
TOUCHING TRUE STORY of the pride and hope the beleaguered citizens of Ciudad Juárez have found in soccer.
Grade: SOLID B
THIS LOVE IS NOT FOR COWARDS: SALVATION AND SOCCER IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
Bloomsbury USA
2012
Tags: Mexico, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, Sports
April 29, 2012
CLEAR-EYED, CANDID, AND BEAUTIFULLY written, Bill Clegg’s memoir of recovery from addiction stirs the soul.
Grade: B PLUS
NINETY DAYS: A MEMOIR OF RECOVERY
Little, Brown
2012
Tags: Addiction and Recovery, B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction
April 28, 2012
IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED BIOGRAPHY of the fascinating 19th century American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.
Grade: B PLUS
THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A BIOGRAPHY
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, United States, Women's Issues
April 27, 2012
SNAPSHOTS OF A LOST ERA vividly captured in a young writer/artist’s diary of his 1980 Merchant Marine voyage.
Grade: SOLID B
THE VOYAGE OF THE ROSE CITY: AN ADVENTURE AT SEA
Random House
2011
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Seafaring, Solid B Reviews, Travel Writing
April 26, 2012
KENTUCKY NOIR RIDES again in these latest adventures of Elmore Leonard’s US Marshal antihero, Raylan Givens.
Grade: B PLUS
RAYLAN
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
April 25, 2012
POETIC, COMPELLING MEDITATION on the power of myth: a girl’s fascination with Norse legend during, after WWII.
Grade: A MINUS
RAGNAROK: THE END OF THE GODS
Grove
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mythology, Novels, Social and Cultural Commentary
April 24, 2012
CHARMING, CHATTY MEMOIR from a Vermont country doctor has plenty of humor, compassion, and local color.
Grade: SOLID B
IT'S PROBABLY NOTHING: MORE ADVENTURES OF A VERMONT COUNTRY DOCTOR
Chelsea Green
2011
Tags: Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews