by Brenda W. Clough Margaret Atwood’s most famous novel was published in 1985. It is appropriate however to review it today, in this first week of November 2016. The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia of a very specific sort. The … Continue reading
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My cousin Lee has loaned me a wonderful book called Fastest Things on Wings by Terry Masear. It’s a memoir of Masear’s early days as a hummingbird rehab specialist–how she fell into it, stuck with it through the nadir days … Continue reading
By Brenda Clough When he tried to plow through Pilgrim’s Progress Huckleberry Finn famously remarked that it was tough. Hah! He never read Boneland, the new novel by Alan Garner. Billed as a third book following the classic Weirdstone of … Continue reading
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a generation of swashbuckling Jews carved out an empire in the New World in their quest for treasure, religious freedom–and revenge by Edward Kritzler. What happened in 1492? Chances are, the answer that springs … Continue reading