‘Book Remarks’ Archives
The Secret Between Us
by Barbara Delinsky Published by Doubleday, New York 2008 Deborah hates rain. When she heads out to pick up her teenage daughter, Grace, from a friend’s party, she is already dreading the drive. Visibility is poor even on the best of nights. Why did they have to live so far out of town where there are no street lights? To top it all off, on [...]
House Rules
by Jodi Picoult Published by Atria Books a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York If you said, “Take a seat” to Jacob Hunt, he would pick it up and ask you where to take it. “Don’t move” to Jacob would leave him motionless until you told him otherwise. Tell Jacob to “get the picture” and he will want to know, “What [...]
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Published by Pocket Books, New York We hear of the debilitating disease condition called “Alzheimer’s Disease” all too often these days. Most of us think of it as “Old Timer’s Disease.” We think it is only something that could happen to our parents or our grandparents, in their eighties and up. Although that is the age bracket of [...]
Laura Bush, An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
by Ronald Kessler Published by Doubleday, New York The only biography written about her with the full cooperation of the President and the First Lady, this is a candid portrait of the real Laura Welch Bush. This is not a book about politics. It is a book about a woman who never aspired to have the fame and prestige that was bestowed upon [...]
Twelve Mile Limit
Author: Randy Wayne White Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York One of White’s older books, the idea for Twelve Mile Limit is based on a true life tragedy from 1994. Four scuba divers leave from the Marco Island Marina determined to explore the ship wreck, the Baja California which rests on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, [...]
The Lake Shore Limited
Author: Sue Miller Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York We all have roles to play. But what happens when the expectations from that role do not fit the depths of our soul? In The Lake Shore Limited four characters find a way out of their guilt and grief. Deeply layered in nuances of infidelity, passion, guilt, and loss we see the [...]
The Sweet By and By
by Todd Johnson Published by HarperCollins Publishers, New York Rhonda sat in her car in the parking lot of the Ridgecrest Nursing home. She was talking herself into going in and getting started on her part time job as hairdresser to the patients. She thought you could wash their hair, listen to their absent chatter, and walk away unaffected [...]
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York. Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 is a turbulent time and place for a friendship between two middle-aged black maids and a young white college graduate aspiring to become a writer. Aibileen and Minny risk it all to help Skeeter write a candid collection of stories of [...]
Book Review: The Healing of America
This book is a must for anyone confused by talk of health care plans. Well, I guess that just about covers everyone. T.R. Reid’s “global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care” is an easy-to-read explanation of the choices that exist and some of the tunnel-visioned, mind-blocked people who will be making them. Reid begins with [...]
