Nina's Bookie Blog

Before last month, I had read three books by Israeli authors.  The first was a Holocaust narrative, and the others were novels describi...

Last year, I was impressed with Lipscomb University’s stage performance of Ragtime . It was a fabulous story - historical, fun, tragic....

My oldest sister is a Jeannie fanatic. When we were kids, she sat entranced at the TV when I Dream of Jeannie was on, and now she cheris...

Animal Farm is a charming fairy tale describing the dark, adult realities of political revolution and corruption, of the advantaged fe...

After reading Steve Jobs , I feel as if I know the man so well that I’m just gonna call him Steve.  I think he’d like that.  And since ...

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...