The Art of Racing in the Rain
Sometimes in opening statement, I will "be" anything from an inanimate object to a character in the case. The main question I hear is - how can you do that without seeming "too over the top?" This...
View ArticleThe Vagrants
China in the 1970s was not a particularly joyous place. At least not for the parents of Gu Shan who begin the day (and the novel) girding themselves for her execution. I decide to read this book...
View ArticleThe Girl with the dragon tattoo
This book got better and better so that by page 300 I couldn't wait to turn the page. It played out in my mind like a movie - more focused on plot twists than in depth character development. There...
View Articleeat pray love
Ok, I resist reading this book because it just seems a bit too "touchy feely" even for me. But there it is, beckoning to me on an airport store shelf. Plus I love Julia Roberts and have every...
View ArticleTheir eyes were watching God
"Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. So Janie had another day." Written in 1937 by Zora Neale Hurston this story transported me. It also made me very glad that...
View Articlea mercy
I read this book by Toni Morrison on the plane ride back and forth to Lewiston ID. Set in the late1600s it is told about and through the voices, thoughts and dreams of a farmer/trader, his wife, a...
View ArticleThe Girl Who Played with Fire
I am so enthralled with the first book that I immediately read the second. Then forget to blog about it. What sticks out in my mind months later... This book is the revelation of the genesis of...
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Shopgirl
My sister Susan gave me this book last time I was in L.A. The cover is a still from the movie of the same name starring the writer of the book - Steve Martin. I almost never read a book that has a...
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The Help
The first book I read on my new Kindle (thanks Laurie and Greg), is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Set in the 60s in racist Jackson Mississippi, it weaves the tale of a White woman writer named Skeeter....
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Cross-Examination Handbook
Ron Clark is a blogging buddy and a distinguished practitioner in residence at Seattle U. Talk about a cool job. He sent me his latest book that he wrote with one of my dear friends Bill Bailey (and a...
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The best life story ever
Am going to fall asleep at the wheel driving up to Whistler unless can find something to…keep me awake. My kids apparently have their own lives and are not coming with me. Decide to get a book on CD...
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Mistrial - book review
Good trial lawyers tell pretty good stories. Mistrial by Mark Geragos and Pat Harris is a nonfiction book of pretty good short stories tied together with a more lofty agenda: addressing the...
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