Nina's Bookie Blog

The Girl Who Played with Fire , as you may know, is the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . It’s another murder mystery, which isn...

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 ...