Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Chemistry of Tears” by Peter Carey
In Peter Carey’s new novel “The Chemistry of Tears” Catherine Gehrig, a horologist and conservator at the fictional Swinburne…
June 29, 2012-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Viktor and Liesel Landauer meet and marry in the late 1920s. They live in small city in the newly-formed…
June 22, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Passage of Power” by Robert A. Caro
“The Passage of Power” is the fourth volume of Robert Caro’s masterful biography, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson.” Originally…
June 18, 2012 -
Book Trailer for “Z is for Moose,” by Kelly Bingham, Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Z is for Moose, by Kelly Bingham, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, was published a couple of weeks ago,…
June 12, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Grief of Others” by Leah Hager Cohen
Going it alone is something that people do when they feel they can’t trust another person, for one reason…
June 11, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “River of Smoke” by Amitav Ghosh
“River of Smoke” is the second volume of a projected trilogy about the first Opium War (1839-1842). I reviewed…
June 8, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “I Am Forbidden” by Anouk Markovits
Hungary, a former part of the Habsburg Empire, was an Axis power during World War II, and Romania, which…
June 1, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Rebecca Rogers Maher, a romance novelist in our midst
Racy romance novels may not be for every reader, but it’s not every day that a writer of one…
May 25, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Absolution” by Patrick Flanery
Clare Wald is a South African writer. She lives alone, with Marie, her ‘woman of business.’ Sam Leroux, an…
May 18, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer” by Susan Gubar
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly…
May 14, 2012