I had trouble putting it down. In addition to my review, I’ve been recommending it to everyone looking for a great read (just gave my copy to a friend from England): www.bookreporter.com/reviews/lond...

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that during my 40 years practicing law, I could have retired earlier than I did.

“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true—not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.” Jayne Anne Phillips, SMALL TOWN GIRLS #sundaysentence

If we’re talking about expelling people from government for sexual assault there’s an important one that needs to go…

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of @praddenkeefe.bsky.social’s outstanding LONDON FALLING: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/lond...

Review: Land The simplicity of its title masks the depth of insight and emotion that makes Maggie O'Farrell's novel Land such an encompassing reading experience

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Maggie O’Farrell’s beautiful new novel, LAND: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Book review of Transcription by Ben Lerner The astute characters of Transcription allow us to reflect on whether the privilege we accord recorded recollections is truly deserved.

From @readbookpage.bsky.social my review of Ben Lerner's novel TRANSCRIPTION: www.bookpage.com/reviews/tran...

This T-shirt needs to be replaced after 37 years, don’t you think? I’m hoping @umichbball.bsky.social gives me a reason to do that this weekend. Go Blue!

The News from Dublin: Stories | Bookreporter.com Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. These 11 stories transport readers across continents and eras. In “...

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Colm Toíbín's short story collection, THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN:

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“I wonder if I am alone in feeling that Texas is a place for grieving.” Colm Toíbín, “Barton Springs” in THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN #sundaysentence

Review: A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Many observers would insist that U.S. politics have never been more tumultuous than in the first quarter of the 21st century, but even a casual

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Jim Rasenberger’s A PERFECT COINCIDENCE: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson:

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“They noticed each other with the devotion of astronomers mapping new planets." Matt Haig, THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN #sundaysentence

A wise friend of mine shared these words today in a group text and I thought I would pass them along:

"Remember to judge people almost tenderly because there’s always a side you can’t possibly know, some story you couldn’t make up and some battle waged you didn’t have to fight."

"He guarded his words as if they were money that would be spent once spoken." Matt Haig, THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN #sundaysentence

Stories: The Collected Short Fiction | Bookreporter.com A woman sends postcards to a former lover from the idyllic Gold Coast. A chorus of hometown voices gossip about a wayward friend returned. A young girl discovers a hidden box of horrors. Helen Garner ...

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Helen Garner’s STORIES: The Collected Short Fiction: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/stor...

Review: Five Weeks in the Country In June 1857, Hans Christian Andersen arrived at Gad's Hill, the country home of Charles Dickens, about 30 miles from London. Unfortunately

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Francine Prose’s novel about Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen, FIVE WEEKS IN THE COUNTRY: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Thanks so much, Lynne. I’m glad you enjoyed the review and hope you like the book.

Book review of In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means To Be a Man What legacy do the Don Drapers of the world leave their children? Award-winning journalist Tom Junod’s memoir untangles his father’s past.

From @readbookpage.bsky.social my review of Tom Junod’s memoir IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN:

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Shelf Awareness for Monday, March 2, 2026 Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...

From Amusing Ourselves to Death? A book that's held up well after 40 years. May I recommend this new one, which, in part, brings Postman's work up to the present? www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

"Love will not survive a channel crossing, I pointed out, let alone the thirty-six hours from Melbourne to London." Helen Garner, "La Chance Existe," in STORIES: The Collected Short Fiction (2026) #sundaysentence

Review: Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir Though the Pulitzer Prize she received for her 2023 novel, The Night Watch, was well deserved, it didn't take that honor to confirm Jayne Anne

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Jayne Anne Phillips’s SMALL TOWN GIRLS: A Writer’s Memoir: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

If football coaches called press conferences after the first quarter to explain the brilliant strategy they employed to get a 7-0 lead, that would be Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine.

Starred Review: Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency Anyone who has felt a twinge of regret when their smartphone reminds them how much time they've spent looking at a screen the previous week

From @shelf-awareness.com my starred review of @theatlantic.com reporter Megan Garber’s SCREEN PEOPLE: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency:

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“She simply needed a way to end her hair and start her face.” Douglas Stuart, JOHN OF JOHN #sundaysentence

Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour | Bookreporter.com LEAVING HOME is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing...

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Mark Haddon’s LEAVING HOME: A Memoir in Full Colour:

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The novel is loaded with sentences that good. I'll bet I marked at least 15.

Douglas Stuart’s upcoming novel JOHN OF JOHN could provided a #sundaysentence for many weeks. Here’s one:

“The colour presented as a hollowness, as though the left side of his face was made of ice too thin to walk on.”

Thanks, Matt!

Eradication: A Fable | Bookreporter.com Reeling from tragedy, a former jazz musician turned schoolteacher named Adi answers a job listing advertising a chance to save the world. The assignment: to spend five weeks alone on the tiny, isolate...

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Jonathan Miles's novel, ERADICATION: A Fable: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/erad.... Like @mdbell79.bsky.social, who reviewed it for @nytimes.com, I thought it was an excellent novel.