• I avoided this book like the plague for as long as I could until my brother-in-law bought it for me last Christmas.  Many people told me I would [...]

  Teacher Man by Frank McCourt – A Book Review

  August 26, 2008
• Oh, Stephen, you make this so hard on me.  I’m a big fan, a HUGE fan, but we have to face facts-you’re not the fiction writer you [...]

  Cell by Stephen King – A Book Review

  August 26, 2008
• This book proved a superb read.  In all seriousness, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.  I do so because, beyond his instinctive [...]

  This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff – A Book Review

  August 26, 2008
• I have to tell you, I am more than impressed with Paul Auster.  The only other work I’ve read of his is the collection The New York [...]

  Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster – A Book Review

  August 26, 2008

• Tobias Wolff has written a brief yet powerful tale concerning a young man awaiting deployment to Vietnam.  During his wait at Fort Bragg, a [...]

  The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff – A Book Review

  August 26, 2008
• Where I’m Calling From is a collected edition of Raymond Carver’s short stories.  Carver died from lung cancer in 1988, but before [...]

  Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver – A Book Review

  August 26, 2008