fiction

The Help

my take: I got inspired listening to Diane Rehm’s “Reader Review” (rebroadcast)…I read The Help quite a while ago and hearing …

"room"

my take: Gads! I read this in gulps … couldn’t put it down. Voyeuristic is the word coming to mind …

Still Alice

my take: A devastating, beautiful novel told from the perspective of an Alzheimer’s victim. As the disease progresses, the narrative …