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Trust by Hernan Diaz (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 20, 2022 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Trust by Hernan Diaz is everything I want in a historical fiction novel. And it’s no wonder the book landed on so many “best of 2022.” Diaz writes from four interconnected points of view while telling the story of a financial wizard and philanthropist. Set in the...

Vanderbilt and Cooper: The Rainbow Comes and Goes (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 5, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir

Gloria Vanderbilt grew up with every financial advantage a child in the early 20th century could want. Yet she didn’t have loving parents—one was dead and the other distant. Perhaps, as a result, having a close relationship with her youngest son, Anderson Cooper,...

Lauren Willig — The English Wife: Tedious Historical Mystery (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 23, 2021 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Author Lauren Willig just didn’t deliver what I hoped for in The English Wife. It’s historical fiction and mystery, set in The Gilded Age of New York City, Newport, Rhode Island and country houses. The Van Duyvil family is “old money,” having come to America from...

Jacqueline Woodson: Red at the Bone—A Novel of Family and Struggle (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 31, 2020 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Jacqueline Woodson does it again with Red at the Bone. In my opinion, there’s no other living author that imbues so much emotion and grace into so few pages. This story is all about family and self-realization at any age. It’s a story of Melody, a teen whose parents...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Explores NYC Life in Fleishman Is in Trouble (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 29, 2020 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Taffy Brodesser-Akner shines a light into the darkness of dysfunctional marriage and divorce in Fleishman Is in Trouble. Set in the world of Manhattan’s social climbing thirtysomethings, we meet Toby Fleishman first. He’s experiencing the unstable world of newly...

Book Review: Pickle’s Progress by Marcia Butler

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 19, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Pickle’s Progress is a quintessential modern New York City novel. In it, Marcia Butler gives us identical twin brothers and the women in their lives. But it’s much more dysfunctional and convoluted than that. Fundamentally, that’s a good thing. Butler’s taut...

Book Review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 15, 2018 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

With her novel, A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara makes a beautiful piece of pottery. Then she drops it on the floor, where it shatters into pieces. Yet before the book finishes, Yanagihara has created what the Japanese call kintsugi. Kintsugi is the art of taking...

Book Review: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 20, 2017 | RELAX: Memoir

I picked up I feel Bad About my Neck by Nora Ephrata on a Sunday afternoon when I needed a little levity. Having loved her movies but never read her books, this was a happy find at a library book sale. And it did make me laugh some, and groan quite a lot. Sometimes a...

Book Review: The Gargoyle Hunters by John Freeman Gill

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 29, 2017 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

John Freeman Gill’s The Gargoyle Hunters is a paean to New York City architecture and bad parenting. It’s also a tender, hilarious coming of age story. Set in the 1970s, I did a lot of reminiscing as I read. In brief, Griffin Watts becomes a teen as he...

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