For this month’s book club, I selected The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn, a pseudonym for Daniel Mallory, a debut novelist and editor at Marrow Publishing. Although it is a 2018 release, I wanted to share it with you before the movie release later this year. Why I chose this book? The […]
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Rack ’em up! – The History of Billiards
“The winter solstice was the shortest day of the year, but already it felt like the longest. Armistead sent the cue ball flying, breaking the neatly racked balls across the green felt of the table. He had hoped that billiards would distract him. He was wrong.” –Masque of Honor Fast Eddie Felson (who had the […]
Breathe In, Breathe Out: The Invention of the Stethoscope
In the 19th century malaria was extremely common in the UnitedStates; at its height, more than one million cases were reported, this isprobably a conservative number since not everyone had access to a medicaltreatment. In Masque of Honor,Armistead Mason bemoans the almost “ordinariness” of suffering from malariawhile in battle. A lot of the research Idid while writing […]
The Timelessness of Little Women
Little Women is back on the big screen! One hundred and fifty years ago, Louisa May Alcott wrote the story based on her early life with her mother and sisters. Interestingly, Louisa May Alcott was anything but what she depicts in the story; she was a radical, an abolitionist and a feminist committed to never […]
Book Review: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
For my book club, I will be choosing current titles (2019 and 2020 as released) to read, review and recommend. Initially I had picked The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates to launch my book club, but after reading it, I was largely unimpressed. So, I scoured the reviews and selected The Dutch House, by Ann […]
