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 | Dec 25, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(mcherald.com, Nov. 22, JC Patterson) Here’s a by-the-book breakdown of fine reads I have known and appreciated this year. The Big Boys: Heavyweight hits like Richard Price’s Lush Life, The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski , and my favorite read...
by vjbooks | Nov 23, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 3, Best Books of The Year Award) In a splended flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction (Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River) Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by...
by vjbooks | Nov 19, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.miamiherald.com, Nov. 14, Nancy Klingener) The question comes at every one of Dennis Lehane’s public appearances: “Will you ever return to Patrick and Angie?” The answer is probably “No.” ”It’s been nine years, and I love...
