I first saw this ‘book’ at Moes books in Berkeley. It is actually a glossy style magazine reprinted in a series called REsearch which describes itself as ‘fascinated with society’s fringe elements’ and was published in 1990. Originally published in the UK in 1970, It…

I came to this book via a review of Hazzard’s work in the New York Review of Books calling this her masterpiece. It starts slowly, revolving around two sisters, Grace and Caro Bell who emigrate to England from Australia in the fifties. We are introduced…

Pynchon decides to take on Humboldt county and shakes it up in his wild eighties ride with stoners and mini-movie moguls, pop culture loving tow truck operators and renegade film makers.  There are rich kids and Japanese businessmen but not of the buttoned up variety. Sexy…

‘I first read “Memento Mori” in high school. I think I reread it sometime in my late twenties and I just finished my third time around at age 50.’ Now I am sixty three finishing my fourth reading of this touchstone book. Now I am…

Read this book as part of our book group.  It was on the list of best thrillers by a New York Times reviewer. The trope of the vicious serial killer is not enjoyable for me. I don’t mind violence or even expressions of evil but…

I read this book when I was young, in my early twenties and I found the book bewildering. I had no frame of reference for the character’s struggle. By that time I had read about the struggles of black people but from the perspective and…