Nina's Bookie Blog

Crazy Salad is a collection of twenty-five articles Nora Ephron wrote for her Esquire magazine column in the early 1970s, when she was ...

Lionel Shriver’s new novel, Big Brother , tells the story of a forty-something woman, Pandora, whose brother, Edison, has recently grown...

This book took me so long to get through. Sometimes I loved it. Sometimes I dreaded it. I mean, Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Ei...

I picked up Water for Elephants on a whim because I liked the title and the premise was cool: Old-timey circus workers rescue a train...

My sister suckered me into another JFK Jr. book. And I liked it. The first one, What Remains , was a lovely read by Carole Radziwill, the...

The Giver is a Newbery medal-winning juvenile fiction featuring Jonas, a preteen boy of unusual equanimity who lives with his family in ...

Meir Shalev had already enchanted me with his storytelling genius, his easy charm, and his unobtrusive humor through his memoir, My Russi...