Ona Vitkus is 104 years old. She is about to go on a journey in search of her past, but does not know this until an odd 11 year old enters her life. The boy’s arrival to her home in pursuit of a merit badge opens a door of redemption and love that many times […]
“No day failed to contain the unexpected,” says it all about this book. Sometimes situations in real life never really resolve themselves; they just keep on going, with no end in sight. Or the unexpected happens and another situation intercedes and takes over without the first one seeing closure. Much can be said of life […]
Good art inspires questions; great art continues to inspire questions long after it has been viewed. It sticks to the soul. When it comes to the work of Andrew Wyeth, both the artist and his work stick to my soul with question after question. I found myself thinking this as I read Christina Baker Kline’s […]
“They’re here!” is a famous movie line announcing the arrival of ghostly phenomenon and is what I first thought of while reading Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo. It certainly wasn’t for the ghosts, there are none; it was because I found all those wonderful characters from the first book are still here. Lets face it, […]
“It all comes down to that fumbling around to find someone. It seems we’re all born with this longing; we’re made to think that someone exists for each of us. So we knock around, dodging various obstacles like bad families and wars and accidents and illnesses, searching and hoping.” With these words, Jim Nichols pieces […]
A lone man rows a skiff out into a fog wrapped harbor. Rowing to his boat, a boat he has fished from for many years, a boat that has served him and his sons well. He is then in the water, at night, drifting out with the tide. Jon Keller’s debut novel, Of Sea and […]
