Let’s Take the Long Way Home

by Cindy | Aug 29, 2010 | Memoir

Rating:  Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, by Gail Caldwell. Random House (2010), 190 pages. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is Caldwell’s story of her friendship with the writer Caroline Knapp who died of cancer in 2002....

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by Cindy | Jan 17, 2010 | Bad Books, Fiction

(This review first appeared in July 2008) Rating:  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski.  Ecco (2008), 576 pages. I heard about The Story of Edgar Sawtelle long before it was published, due to early rave reviews billing it as “An American...

Bonding with Your Dog

by Cindy | Oct 13, 2009 | Animals, Nonfiction

Rating:  Bonding with Your Dog: A Trainer’s Secrets for Building a Better Relationship, by Victoria Schade.  Howell Book House (2009), 212 pages. The premise of this book is that no matter how much training you put into your dog, if a strong bond is...

Dog Man

by Cindy | Aug 27, 2009 | Animals, Nonfiction

Rating:  Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain, by Martha Sherrill.  Penguin Press (2008), 256 pages. This is the kind of dog book that describes a particular breed—Akitas—so beautifully and with such love, I felt a sudden urgent need to go find...