by Donna | Mar 14, 2012 | Fiction
Rating: The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey. Little, Brown and Company (2012), 386 pages. Easily the best book I’ve read in the last fourteen months. It has everything: Russian fairy tales, pioneer homesteaders, a lost child, a red fox, Alaskan wilderness, an...
by Donna | Aug 22, 2009 | Fiction
(This review first appeared in June 2005) Rating: The Way the Crow Flies, by Ann-Marie MacDonald. HarperCollins (2003), 820 pages. This book perfectly displays what I mean when I write that an author has flawlessly captured the child’s voice in his or...
by Cindy | Aug 17, 2009 | Fiction
Rating: The Glimmer Palace, by Beatrice Colin. Riverhead Books (2008), 414 pages. This novel takes place in cabaret-era Berlin and involves the birth of cinema—two topics that, for no good reason at all, I find strangely dull and uneventful. But since I...