Nina's Bookie Blog

Here’s the story:  In Haifa, Israel, during the Yom Kippur War (1973), a husband and wife, Adam and Asya, have grown emotionally distant f...

After reading an interview with Kay West , the ghost writer of Dani’s Story , in the City Paper (a Nashville news magazine), I vaguely r...

This is the chain of events that led me to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest : I read a segment of The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe) for a col...

The Year We Disappeared is the memoir of a Falmouth, Massachusetts, police officer, John Busby, and his daughter, Cylin, who alterna...

As an Israeli author, Amos Oz composed My Michael in Hebrew.  So, as a typical monolingual American, I had to settle for the English t...

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...