Books High and Low

As with the last book that I reviewed, this book has been written about a lot, so I'm not going to go into too much detail. I will jus...

A lot has been written about this book since it was published last year. Having been an ardent Hillary supporter, I was curious about her ...

I loved this story about a young man who experiences a lifetime of pain in one summer a few years after the second world war in Norway. Tr...

Pink Floyd is my all-time favorite band, and I really enjoyed this inside account of the band's history by the only member to have bee...

This post includes the books that I read in December, plus a few that I forgot to write about from earlier this fall. I just realized that t...

 This is a fascinating look at the history of humans, from our origins in the distant past to today. Author Yuval Noah Harari, a historia...

The main character of this psychological thriller is a defense lawyer who takes on the case of a young girl who has committed a school sh...

The Last Mrs. Parrish is written by a sister duo, Lynne and Valerie Constantine, who write under the pseudonym Liv Constantine. It's ...

I loved this book about how dictionaries are created. Author Kory Stamper has worked at Merriam-Webster since 1998 and she has written a t...

Fans of Armistead Maupin will love this memoir. In it the author talks about his childhood in North Carolina with a very conservative father...

The Gatekeepers is a fascinating look inside every White House from Nixon's administration through Obama's. Author Chris Whipple de...

My book club picked My Beloved World for our May read. Sonia Sotomayor had recently visited the University at Albany, although I was trave...

People of the Book tells the story of a famous book through the imagined clues left behind in its pages. A moth, a wine stain, and ev...

A good mystery set in Northern California. Matthew Lindstrom has been given a tip that his wife, missing for 14 years, is alive and well. ...

This 2007 novel is about tensions that arise when a traditionally African-American neighborhood in Atlanta succumbs to gentrification and yo...

When I first saw this book I thought the author had written a manifesto against Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The...

In no particular order, here are some of my recent reads: I loved this unconventional novel about Lincoln's young son Willie's d...

In this fascinating look at how humans continue to evolve, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon explains the ways in which humans are still ...

Author Jason Wachob is an entrepreneur and founder of mindbodygreen , a healthy lifestyle web site with articles such as " If you only ...

If you've suffered from heartburn or acid reflux, this book will teach you how to heal and prevent future episodes of either. Dr. Jonath...

A Deadly Wandering tells the story of a young man named Reggie Shaw who was texting while driving to work one morning. He was weaving from s...