Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson
Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933. In that same year, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as President…
January 27, 2012-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Thorn and the Blossom” by Theodora Goss
Brendan and Evelyn meet as young students. Evelyn, an American studying at Oxford, is taking a week’s vacation in…
January 20, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke” by Timothy Snyder
Before they became independent countries in the 20th century, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and parts of…
January 13, 2012 -
Downton Abbey and Books
As someone who grew up reading classics after watching the Masterpiece Theatre versions (“Cousin Bette,” in particular, got me…
January 12, 2012 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “This Beautiful Life” by Helen Schulman
In “This Beautiful Life” Helen Schulman takes on a story of youthful illusion and treachery. The Bergamots, mother, father,…
December 30, 2011 -
Community Building and Book Sharing with Little Free Libraries
Have you ever stayed in a hotel where travellers and guests swapped and shared novels and guides? I have,…
December 22, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life” by Ann Beattie
What to make of this curious book, Ann Beattie’s beautifully written new release? There’s clearly a lot of imagination…
December 16, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club, “A Meaningful Life,” by L.J. Davis
Lowell Lake, just graduated from Stanford University in the early 1960s, gets married right after college graduation. On a…
December 9, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
Charismatic, volatile, mercurial. Genius. These are just some of the adjectives Walter Isaacson applies to Steve Jobs in his…
December 1, 2011 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: Books for Kids
If you are not out shopping today, and are looking for something to do, why not spend a little…
November 25, 2011