Blood, Bones & Butter

Blood, Bones & Butter

Rating:   Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton.  Random House (2011), 291 pages. Hamilton has written a smart, funny book that stands out in the glutted chef/memoirist category in that she writes...
The Book Thief

The Book Thief

(This review first appeared in February 2007) Rating:   The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. Knopf (2006), 552 pages. This is the story of a German girl living in a foster family in a working-class town in Germany during World War II. Such a setting encompasses,...
The Big Year

The Big Year

Rating:  The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, by Mark Obmascik.  Free Press (2005), 288 pages. The topic of the “big year” (a competition in which birders throughout the world compete to see who can spot the most species of birds within...