Nina's Bookie Blog

The Paris Wife was recommended to me as a non-fiction.  And it is, somewhat.  We could probably more accurately say “based on a true sto...

I had never read this book before.  I know, I know - shame on me!  (I’ve never seen the movie either, but that’s forgivable, right?)  Sev...

You may know that, as a rule, I alternate my reading selections between fiction and non-fiction.  You may also know that my daughter work...

Shopgirl is a novel by Steve Martin. Yes.  The Steve Martin. Yes.  A novel. No.  Not a comedy. I first realized that Steve ...

In his introduction to Natural Acts, Quammen aptly describes the book as “a chimerical creature.”  It’s a collection of his articles and ...

While Vonnegut says in the very first chapter of Slaughterhouse Five that he intends the story to be an “anti-war book” (which he admi...

Nora can write. Her style is simple.  She's opinionated, left wing, and pretty darned feminist.  But she's funny ...