Posts in category Book Review

THE WAY A WOUND BECOMES A SCAR EMILY SCHULTEN The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar is a collection of poems that wrestle with visible …

Life After 60 – Doctor to Author  Keeping Going at 85 with Zest in Life JUDITH M. TAYLOR MD To retire into idleness is to die. This opinion is …

Book Review / Migrating Toward Happiness By Janet Hinkle For years, Tara O’Grady and her band have charmed New York City audiences with jazz standards …

Key West Author Teams Up With CIA Pilot to Produce an Aviation Adventure Local Key West author Luann Grosscup had a chance encounter three years …

KEY WEST COMES ALIVE IN LUCY BURDETTE’S NINTH MYSTERY Lucy Burdette aka Roberta Isleib doesn’t have to look far to find characters and plot ideas …

Book Review / Miss Stephen’s Apprenticeship: How Virginia Stephen Became Virginia Woolf by Rosalind Brackenbury (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018 What author’s is …

Can’t put it down: “Just Us: Horror in a Small Maryland Town” When 12-year-old Billy Sanders moves with his mother and siblings to Upper Marlboro, …

Book Review / Remembering Key West and Von Cosel: Excerpt from my memoir Bootstrap Geologist By Eugene A. Shinn One memory is vivid—a loud boom!! …

A Presidential Tale of Friendship, Travel, and the Great Outdoors!  I Call Him “Mr. President” by Ken Raynor and Michael Patrick Shiels tells the story of how President …

Andy Thurber: Island Cruisin Andy called Nance.  She said, “Yes!”  “We have to!”  Andy said, “Yes, of course. It’s our 15th year together and we have to celebrate!  We can’t let …

Author James Gleick will speak at Friends of the Library Feb. 27 Monday, Feb. 27, the Key West Friends of the Library will welcome acclaimed …

You can go home again: The Trip to Bountiful at the Waterfront Playhouse By Joanna Brady Thomas Wolfe wasn’t necessarily wrong when he wrote the …

Agnes of God: A Tour de Force for the Fringe BY JOANNA BRADY The Fringe Theater has come a long way since Peter and Monnie …

Throw me on the Burnpile and Light me Up  A one-woman show well worth seeing By Joanna Brady The concept of a show featuring only …

New coming-of-age novel recalls South Florida in the stormy 1960s Three author events set for South Florida in early January PUTNEY, VT — Laced with …

The Lives of One’s Parents: Review of a Novel by Rosalind Brackenbury, “The Third Swimmer” (John Daniel: McKinleyville, Cal., 2016) Review by Malcolm Willison Any …

Florida Health Highlights Children’s Book Week with “Give Me 5 A Day” Book Tallahassee, Fla.—The Florida Department of Health is observing Children’s Book Week on …

Killer Takeout By Diane Johnson Lucy Burdette’s latest murder mystery Killer Takeout is a delightful read full of fun and suspense featuring heroine Hayley Snow, …

BOOK REVIEW / Rock Bottom By Diane Johnson Rock Bottom is a lively dramatic read that will capture your imagination and transport you into the …

Review of Rosalind Brackenbury, Bonnard’s Dog   (Brooklyn, Hanging Loose Press, 2015) by Malcolm Willison   Bonnard’s Dog, just out, offers fifty excellent poems by …