Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Landfall” A novel by Ellen Urbani
Rose, the 18-year-old protagonist of Ellen Urbani’s novel “Landfall,” is on a quest. She’s survived a car accident that…
September 4, 2015-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Children Act,” a novel by Ian McEwan
A judge has a role to play, sitting on a bench above the rest of the people in court,…
August 7, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Friendship” A Novel by Emily Gould
The path to true adulthood has twists, and life regularly forces a change of direction on you. And sometimes,…
July 31, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “H is for Hawk” by Helen Macdonald
Grief exists; it’s a boulder, a stumbling block, but the metaphors don’t do it justice. A wave of pain…
July 24, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape our Man-Made World” by Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik opens his entertaining and interesting book on materials science with a compelling anecdote: when he was a…
July 17, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “My Family and Other Hazards” A Memoir by June Melby
I’ve played it. And so have you, probably. But if you’re like me, you’ve given the mini-golf course and…
May 15, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm” by Dave Goulson
Over in the meadow, the old song tells us, live turtles, fish, rats, birds, bees, owls, frogs, and lizards,…
May 1, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Grace Reinhart has it all. Her loving husband, Jonathan Sachs, is a pediatric oncologist dedicated to his patients. Her…
April 24, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Rehearsal” by Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton’s debut novel “The Rehearsal” opens with a teacher of the saxophone explaining why she takes only experienced…
April 17, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Arrows of Rain” A Novel by Okey Ndibe
Note: I didn’t post last week, partly because of the holiday weekend, and partly because I was so sad…
April 10, 2015