Book Review: Before We Were Strangers
What happened to Clara McBride? This is the central question in Brenda Novak‘s riveting Before We Were Strangers. When she was just five years old, her daughter Sloane overheard her parents’ […]
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Book Review: Obama
After watching a PBS documentary about White House photographer Pete Souza, I very much wanted to see his photos in Obama: An Intimate Portrait. This coffee table book sells for less than […]
Book Review: Disloyal
I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them. – Michael Cohen In Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to […]
Book Review: Where Law Ends
I’m so happy that I didn’t buy Where the Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann. The author portrays himself as a brilliant, ethical prosecutor. […]
Book Review: Big Summer
Drue Cavanaugh is steeped in white privilege. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner rips away that facade and exposes the empty, painful loneliness within: I’d chased after [Drue], and she’d chased after […]
Book Review: 28 Summers
On a dreary, chilly, and drippy day this week, I snuggled in with Bitzie and Elin Hilderbrand‘s latest beach book, 28 Summers. It is dedicated to the late, great Dorothea […]
Book Review: The Invention of Wings
We sent you out there on behalf of abolition, not women. – Theodore Weld, The Invention of Wings The rights of women were perceived to be a “paltry grievance” by […]
Book Review: Hungry
Today is the 15th anniversary of my abusive, tyrannical father’s death. I’ve always loved the irony that I was liberated on Bastille Day! It has taken me six years to […]
Book Review: A Warning by Anonymous
Donald J. Trump believes Deputy National Security Adviser Dr. Victoria Coates wrote A Warning by Anonymous. She was reassigned to the Energy Department this week as part of his post-impeachment […]
Book Review: A Very Stable Genius
Donald J. Trump brazenly declared his passion to be our nation’s first dictator. Yet, the press, government officials, and the intellectual elite didn’t take him seriously. Everyone chattered about adults […]
Anne Caroline Drake 