Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is being released as movie this fall. Since reading it 5 years ago it has remained as one of my top 5 favorite books of all time, which is fairly surprising because it is science fiction,...
View ArticleAs You Wish: Cary Elwes
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, October 2014 Some people think of reviewing books as solitary, quiet vocation and often, they are right. How nice then, to attend a book event that ends up feeling...
View ArticleAll the Stars in the Heavens
Harper, October 13, 2015 After being a novitiate at a San Francisco convent for six years Alda Ducci is told that she is not suited to be a nun. Sent by her family from Italy to escape disgrace,...
View ArticleJuly Reading Wrap-Up
Based on the calendar I know it was summer, but the only way I believed it was hearing from friends and family how they were melting away in intense heat. Seattle hovered in the 60s or lower for most...
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