Nina's Bookie Blog

Neil Gaiman’s epic American Gods would be a great subject for a master’s-level analytical essay. But since my humble blog promises to ke...

Detroit City Is the Place To Be  wasn’t what I hoped. Going in, I wanted to read about Detroit’s greatness and, maybe, get an honest n...

Inspired by the true story of Depression-era serial killer Harry Powers, The Night of the Hunter , first published in 1953, is an old-...

Neil Peart is famously the drummer for the Canadian rock band Rush, but his book The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa is almost entir...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is the final book in Stieg Larsson’s Dragon Tattoo series, and it picks up right where The Girl Wh...

When three different people saw me reading Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim , they gave me three different comments. One said, “Dav...

If you require a fast and fiery high-action thrill, A Farewell to Arms is not the Hemingway for you. The novel does have a few nail-...