by vjbooks | Jan 25, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Beacon News, Jan. 18, Teresa Budasi) My favorite of 2008 is the latest novel by Wally Lamb. A decade has passed since Lamb was doubly blessed by Oprah and shot to literary fame. In 1997, the talk show queen chose his first novel, “She’s Come...
by vjbooks | Jan 4, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
An enthralling portrait of one family in the aftermath of a daughter’s disappearance “It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow.” It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared from her small...
by vjbooks | Jan 1, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(latimes.com, Nov. 23, Sarah Weinman) Novels about kidnapping by Laura Lippman, Jennifer McMahon, Stewart O’Nan and others consider the lives of those left behind. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, just more than 2,000 children are reported missing...
