Boomer's Booklist

The Grass is Singing, by Doris Lessing First Line:  Mary Turner, wife of Richard Turner, a farmer at Ngesi, was found murdered on the fr...

Anyone read the Psychopath Test by the same author who wrote Men who Stare at Goats? It's a really intersting book that meanders through...

It's a little hard to see, but those are 25 cents stickers on three promising books. If only I could read as fast as I buy. Check out ...

First sentences: THE NAME OF THE WORLD by Denis Johnson Since my early teens I've associated everything to do with college, "the ac...

I'm only a few stories into Go Down, Moses but I'm enjoying it. There's a bit of the Brer Rabbit feel to it. Something about t...

From Google's Quote of the Day: Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. - Paul...

I confess I didn't read this book. It just happened to make me laugh out loud in a coffee shop while perusing one person's selectio...