When Even the Smallest Moments in Time Make All the Difference

Book Review for "Perfect" by Rachel Joyce

My Top Five (or Six) Books of 2013

My Favorite Reads Released this Past Year

A Girl who is Part Mystery, Part Fantasy

Book Review for "The Girl on the Landing" by Paul Torday

The Making of a French Empress

Book Review for "Becoming Josephine" by Heather Webb

Teaching Men Manners is No Laughing Matter?

Book Review for "Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys" by Eric Garcia

One Family, One Holiday, Many Generations of Women

Book Review for "Thanksgiving" by Ellen Cooney

Not Seeing the Trees for the Forest

Book Review for "All Russians Love Birch Trees" by Olga Grjasnowa

Death Among the Dreidel Set

Book Review for "Chanukah Guilt" by Ilene Schneider

Ten Warmly Flowing Stories of Louisiana

Book Review for "Down at the End of the River" Short Stories by Angus Woodward

The Anthropology of Motherhood

Book Review for "The Pure Gold Baby" by Margaret Drabble

Tasty but not Scrumptious

Book Review for "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris

Adopted Siblings Road to Discovery

Book Review for "Brother & Sister" by Joanna Trollope

Looking for Mister Good-Read

How many times has a book blurb made you immediately think "been there, done that"?

A match made in heaven or a literary crime?

Book Review for "Death Comes to Pemberley" by P.D. James

The Many Collective Nouns for Rooks

Book Review for "Bellman & Black" by Diane Setterfield

A Trio of Girls and Their Off-Key Father

Book Review for "Finding Amos" by Mason, Billingsly and McFadden  

Lessons in Grieving

Book Review for "The Beginner's Goodbye" by Anne Tyler

Is Chick-Lit getting a Bum Rap?

  First Impressions

 

Let's face it, the moment we hear the term "chick-lit" our minds immediately go directly to those cheap books our mothers (or at least my mother) used to buy from the supermarket... 

A Life in the Day...

Book Review for "Ostrich" by Matt Greene

A Poetic Memoir of Ondaatje's visits to Sri Lanka

Book Review for "Running in the Family" by Michael Ondaatje

A Pre-Revolutionary French Feast of Fiction

Book Review for "The Last Banquet" by Jonathan Grimwood

Gender Roles in Literature

Do Female Characters Get the Short Shrift?

Slavery Through Women's Eyes

Book Review for "The Wedding Gift" by Marlene Suyapa Bodden 

"The Missingest Man in New York"

Book Review for "The Wife, the Maid and the Mistress" by Ariel Lawhon

A New Fairy Tale & Ballet

Book Review for "Raven Girl" by Audrey Niffenegger

On Genre Preferences and Reviewing Books

Can a reviewer do justice to a book in a genre they don't usually read?

A Trek of Self-Discovery

Book Review for "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce

Comfort Foods and Curious Phenomena

Book Review for "The Kitchen Daughter" by Jael McHenry.

Who is the better writer - Robert Galbraith or J.K. Rowling?

Yes, I know full well that the novel "The Cuckoo's Calling" was published under Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith. 

 

A Novel of Art, Birds and Mysteries

Book Review for "The Gravity of Birds" by Tracey Guzeman

Come to me, my little pretties!

Here in Israel, where English is maybe the third, if not the fourth language of the country, bookstores don't leave much room for English titles on their shelves.

The Great Debate: Electronic vs. Dead Tree Books

Which are better - eBooks or print ones?

The subtlety of words

Advice both elegant and succinct on how to distinguish between the words"elusive" and "illusory," from "Fowler's Modern English Usage," 2/e: "The elusive mocks its pursuer, the illusory its possessor."

Magical Realism In Literature - Does it Work?

When and how should authors ask us to suspend disbelief?

One Novel, Two Readers, Different Effects

How can two readers get something different out of the same book?

So… who is this "Chocolate Lady" of whom you speak?

I'm sure by now you'll have realized that I am "The Chocolate Lady." This particular nickname was actually not self-dubbed. (Over the years, people have called me many things. I sincerely hope that most - if not all - have been long forgotten.) For those of you interested, here is the long version of how I obtained this auspicious handle.

Prepare to Die… Laughing

Book Review for "The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure" by William Goldman.

Who am I to be writing book reviews?

This background article is now available only on my new blog here!

What the Dickens??

Book Review for "Jack Maggs" by Peter Carey

In the beginning

There comes a time in every online content writer's life when they find they need to start their own blog.