by kristinoakley | Mar 10, 2023 | Books and Movies, Newsletter
In this month’s Writer’s Book Club, I review Junot Diaz’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I had seen this book on bookstore and library shelves over the years, picked it up, considered getting it, then put it...
by kristinoakley | Feb 24, 2023 | Books and Movies, Newsletter
Lately, I’ve been hooked on stories that mess with my mind. Not psychological thrillers, though I do love those, but stories that bend the rules of reality. For instance, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (see my Writer’s Book Club for more about that...
by kristinoakley | Feb 9, 2023 | Books and Movies, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
I finally finished reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, and I’m glad I did. The book interweaves five stories across many centuries. The stories are connected around the parable of Aethon and his search for the mythical Cloud Cuckoo Land. The book begins...
by kristinoakley | Jan 13, 2023 | Books and Movies, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
For this month’s Writer’s Book Club, I promised to review Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. But, I haven’t finished it — it’s 622 pages long and I’m a slow reader. However, while on my walks I did finish listening to the audiobook...
by kristinoakley | Nov 10, 2022 | Books and Movies, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
This month I review Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility. According to the description, this book is “A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely...
by kristinoakley | Oct 13, 2022 | Books and Movies, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
I know I promised to review Emily St. John Mandel’s novel The Sea of Tranquility this month, but I’m saving it for November. I recently finished listening to Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry, narrated by my friend Ray Porter, and it’s about...
