by Cindy | Oct 11, 2010 | Fiction
Rating: Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2010), 562 pages. Much like my favorite story-tellers of the 19th century (Tolstoy, Flaubert, Austen, the Brontes) Franzen begins his novels with the description of a family, and then simply...
by Cindy | Oct 5, 2009 | Nonfiction, Other
Rating: Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother, Barbara Graham, editor. Harper (2009), 298 pages. This collection of essays is exactly what the title promises—a whole bunch of grandmothers writing about...