‘Book Remarks’ Archives
30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Karl Pillimer Ph.D Publisher: Hudson Street Press, 2011. Much to my surprise it seems that the author of 30 Lessons for Living, Dr. Karl Pillimer, considers those who have passed their 65th birthday the “Wisest Americans.” So it is nice to know that I qualify [...]
11/22/63
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Stephen King Publisher: Scribner, 2011. I would think that almost everyone over the age of ten, in 1963, remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed in Dallas, Texas on [...]
Lone Wolf
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Jodi Picoult. Publisher: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012. This is Jodi Picoult’s 19th novel and I would have to say I found it one of the most engrossing of those she has written. Many of the books I have reviewed for you have had some type of moral dilemma [...]
The Tiger’s Wife
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Téa Oberht. Publisher: Random House, 2011. If you want to read a book in which a butcher beats his wife to a bloody pulp and is then punished for it, you can probably find dozens of books of that genre in any library or book store. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, life [...]
The Heart Mender
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Andy Andrews. Publisher: Thomas Nelson, Publisher 2010. This book has a couple of unusual things going for it. It was first published in 2005, under the name “Island of Saints” and nobody bought it. And, then there is the fact that it is published as fiction, [...]
Defending Jacob
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: William Landay. Publisher: Delacorte Press, 2012. I feel badly writing yet another review of a mystery/courtroom drama, as I try to write about a variety of types of books, but I couldn’t resist this one. Besides, in reading the list of the New York [...]
One Perfect Shot
Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Steven F. Havill. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press 2011. I am preparing myself mentally to start reading Ken Follett’s Fall of the Giants which is a whopping 1,000 pages long. I am sure I will enjoy it as I have many others written by Mr. Follett, but, in the meantime, I need to [...]
Dead in Small Doses
By Holly Benedict Author John Dandola debuts Dead in Small Doses, his newest mystery novel set during 1943. Each year, author-screenwriter-playwright John Dandola makes several trips to Marco Island, spending in total at least two months here. He not only relaxes but he finds the quiet, easy atmosphere conducive to writing. His newest [...]
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Albert Brooks. Publisher: St. Martins Press 2011. Quite frankly, I would probably not have given this book a glance if I had just looked at the cover. It would seem that a book cover should draw a potential reader to want to pick the book up and feel compelled to at least [...]
Turn of Mind
BOOK REMARKS Diane Bostick dianebostick@comcast.net Author: Alice LaPlante. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011. If you are a regular reader of Book Remarks you probably have noticed that you often don’t know what the book I am reviewing is about until close to the end of the column. I tend to chat a bit about various [...]
