Quips and Quotes: Book Reviews by Linda

William Waters had a childhood marked by his parents’ grief since his sister died when […]

This book’s “heart,” which is missing, is a futuristic American law called PACT, Preserving American […]

NPR sums up Bennett’s novel by saying it is “life tracked through the lens of […]

Rouge Street: Three Novellas” by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang, presents a collection of […]

Curtis Sittenfeld is so good at character development that she got my attention throughout this […]

The author read this audiobook, one of the more engaging and beautiful audiobooks I have […]

This novel has two main stories, each told by a first-person narrator. The first is […]

I am not usually drawn to memoirs, but I listened to Mary Louise Kelly talk […]

I have rediscovered the beauty of short stories after reading Jess Walter. I was amazed […]

Pineapple Street is a fascinating look at the upper-crust Stockton family. Their money is old […]