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Bookin' with Sunny
2M ago
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee’s captivating memoir and history of the world of bookselling. Of all the books I have especially recommended to avid readers and fellow bibliophiles Lewis Buzbee’s The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is the most heartfelt recommendation of all. I don’t know Buzbee, so the recommendation is not personal in that sense, but Buzbee ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
2M ago
Jacqueline Hollands’s debut novel, The God of Endings, reveals the loneliness of the life of an unwilling vampire. Jacqueline Holland’s debut novel, The God of Endings, follows an unwilling vampire as she navigates the passing of centuries alone. Young Anna’s untimely death from the plague propels her into what she views as an inescapable nightmare— a life ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
2M ago
Jacqueline Hollands’s debut novel, The God of Endings, reveals the loneliness of the life of an unwilling vampire. Jacqueline Holland’s debut novel, The God of Endings, follows an unwilling vampire as she navigates the passing of centuries alone. Young Anna’s untimely death from the plague propels her into what she views as an inescapable nightmare— a life ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
8M ago
One thing leading to another is the case when reading about an unearthed time capsule brings me back to Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Last Thursday, August 31st, I ran across a New York Times article written by Livia Alberck-Ripka, about a 200-year-old time capsule. I mean, who isn’t interested in what might be found to be worth ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
8M ago
All The Stars in The Heavens – the bio-novel of Loretta Young’s life as only Adriana Trigiani could imagine. Hollywood at its best? Regular “Bookin’ with Sunny” readers already know that I enjoy reading and reviewing novels based on real people’s lives. A number of such stories, featuring men and women of renown, have recently ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
8M ago
The Honey Jar, An Armenian’s Escape to Freedom, is Joan Schoettler’s captivating tale of a young boy’s 1920, escape from his war-torn home in Armenia. The full title of this middle reader (10-14 yrs.) novel is The Honey Jar, An Armenian’s Escape to Freedom. Author Joan Schoettler has written a story so captivating that I ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
10M ago
Dreamers of the Day is Mary Doria Russell’s novel that is as fresh if not fresher today than when first published in 2008. Mary Doria Russell’s Dreamers of the Day is as fresh and new today as when published in March 2008, and given the state of the world today, it may be even fresher ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
10M ago
Matt Haig’s novel, The Midnight Library, describes the twenty-seven hours it takes Nora Seed to choose life or death. The Midnight Library, Chapter One begins, “Nineteen years before she decided to die . . .” Now that’s a novel opening hard to ignore. Some time passes by Chapter Two, “Twenty-seven hours before she decided to die ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
11M ago
Not Weakness, Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain – Francesca Grossman’s book is more than memoir or self-help. It is an honest exploration of the effects of suffering from chronic pain as experienced by women. Not Weakness, Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain – memoir or self-help? A little bit of both, but not in ..read more
Bookin' with Sunny
11M ago
Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor brings the depth of lived experience and rigorous knowledge of the law to My Beloved World. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Puerto Rican heritage, Quality education for all Supreme Court, Puerto Rican heritage, Quality education for allSupreme Court, Puerto Rican heritage, Quality education for all’s memoir ..read more