Sarah Laurence

Changes in the Weather is a young adult novella about climate change told in four distinct voices. In "Wind" a hurricane forces I...

I'm delighted to review a debut poetry collection released in April by David Cranmer , who was an early member of our Book Review Club. ...

After reviewing novels for 15 years and plotting my own, it's not often that a book surprises me, but Cleyvis Natera 's  Neruda on t...

What looks like an insta-love romance becomes something else entirely as lies accumulate on both sides of Someday, Somewhere by Lindsay C...

I'm offline traveling in Wales, enjoying the final week of our UK sabbatical . The photograph above is of  Carew Castle and Tidal Mil...

Canal boat in Oxford, England on a rare sunny day.  The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone was my favorite debut young adult novel...

I usually post my best young adult fiction list in December, but this year I was moving between sabbaticals in Japan and in the UK with a ...

Can you believe that it's almost summer? I went for my first ocean swim of the season on Monday and lasted nearly ten minutes in t...

Popham Beach in Phippsburg, Maine on Christmas: do you see the question mark? Hold Tight, Don't Let Go is a moving story about t...

Wagon wheels at Rocky Ridge Orchard in Bowdoin, Maine Rainbow Rowell captures the cool geek voice of my generation. She uses just th...