Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Harper/Collins 2022 (Pulitzer prize winner) - I’ve been a fan of Barbara Kingsolver since the first time I read her 1988 debut novel ‘The Bean Trees’. Her work, whether fiction or nonfiction, has always knocked on the sharp edges of social injustice. Works like ‘The Bean Trees’, ‘Holding the Line’ …
Month: August 2023
THE PARIS LIBRARY BY JANET CHARLES
The Paris Library by Janet Charles, Simon & Schuster, 2021 - It may seem strange to think of an American library, not to mention an American hospital, both in Paris, France, but the institutions do indeed exist. The hospital was founded in 1906 and the library in 1920 and they came into existence with financial …
THE GREAT TRANSIT PLOT
It seems global warming is heating up with: storms of the century, floods of the millenia, unending heat waves and forest fires that keep on burning. It’s therefore fashionable for Kanadoodle’s political leaders to talk about limiting greenhouse gas emissions. For anyone unfamiliar with greenhouse gasses, it’s the noxious fumes that arise in the Chambers …
Richard's Left Bank 