The BookFetish Blog

Bono calls The Edge a “Zen Presbyterian.”  I’ve read quotations from the Dalai Lama.  I’ve heard of the eight-fold path, and the path to enlightenment.  I’m the first to call Karma a mean bitch.  But I really didn’t have a good idea of what Buddhism is.  And it kept cropping up in things I was […]

When I started Wendy Wax’s The Accidental Bestseller I expected something else.    And I’ll be honest. For the first hundred or so pages, I was enjoying the book but not devouring it.  I was ready to chalk it up to a pleasant summer read, with a predictable path and characters.  It made for a […]

Someone said to me yesterday, “No one cares about your stupid blog.”  Which made me start thinking.  I think we all know that the instant we put something out for public consumption, it is open for debate. Not everyone is going to love it.  That’s life.   I’ve been pleasantly surprised by every kind word […]

From the first reading of The Crucible in school, I’ve been fascinated with the Salem witch trials. As soon as I heard the role of the trials in this book, I knew I had to read it.  In The Heretic’s Daughter, Kathleen Kent tells the story of her ancestors, Martha and Thomas Carrier and their […]

I think Pat Conroy is a  gifted storyteller. The Great Santini is, I think, my favorite of his books.  When I first started South of Broad I was listening to it as an mp3 download.  The audiobook was great, the narrator did an excellent job with it, but Pat Conroy is almost a lyricist, and I […]