Category Archives: Reading

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh I recently re-read this when I was visiting my mom’s house, and if you don’t know the book here’s a quick plot summary. Harriet is an eleven-year-old girl who lives in New York City … Continue reading →

The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas I’m stuck at my mom’s house with not much to read. It was either this or one of my dad’s books about Nazis. The author put me off right away by … Continue reading →

Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. I read this because the book group I joined but only ever … Continue reading →

The Blue Angel, by Francine Prose I liked the premise of a writing teacher dealing with his own writer’s block and the fact that one of his students is more talented than he is. I don’t know if I’ve ever … Continue reading →

Geek Love, by Katherine Dunne I’d avoided reading this when it first came out in the late eighties because it seemed so trendy to read a book about a family of circus freaks. Twenty years later the hype has died … Continue reading →

Freddy and Frederika, by Mark Helprin I’d never read any Mark Helprin before, probably because an old boyfriend wanted me to read A Winter’s Tale and at the time it was more important for me to be an argumentative jerk … Continue reading →