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Lunch Lit: Lies with Lunch

April 16, 2012 Written by Kelly Coyle Crivelli

True… a novel about deceptivness. Today for lunch read an excerpt from the newly translated novel True by Riikka Pulkkinen. From a new international literary voice comes a novel about the deceptiveness of memory, and the mercy and love that can come from a lie.   Pulkkinen is a young literary sensation in Finland and […]

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The Sadness of Turning the Last Page…

March 21, 2012 Written by Kelly Coyle Crivelli

A Partial History of Lost Causes- I have been saying this often- but I will say it again- lately I am completely obsessed with audio books. I don’t know if it is the way a narrator can bring a story to life, or the way each word is spoken with such importance, or simply that it […]

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Lisa See's new novel (Loved it!)

February 23, 2009 Written by rhjen

I just finished reading the ARE of Lisa See’s wonderful new novel Shanghai Girls.  I was a fan of both Snowflower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, but I thought her new book blew them away.  It is more contemporary, set in 1930s Los Angeles and focuses on the relationship between two sisters […]

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