The Midwife of Venice
6/21/12 Please don’t ask me to explain why I haven’t reviewed a book in three months. It’s not as if I haven’t been reading. And it’s not as if I haven’t be talking about books to people on the...
View ArticleThe House at Tyneford
7/28/12 ANOTHER STUPID BOOK ABOUT A JEWISH GIRL WHO GOES TO ENGLAND AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH AN UPPER-CRUST BRIT. SPOILER: SHE MARRIES THE FATHER. BUT EVEN THAT PLOT TWIST DOESN’T HELP THIS MAUDLIN,...
View ArticleThe Far Side of the Sky
8/3/12 Although Daniel Kalla’s captivating novel concerns the Jewish community who escaped to Shanghai when Jews could still get out of Nazi-occupied territories, I think it’s important to note that...
View ArticleMission to Paris
8/10/12 The other day someone was telling me about how when she finds an author she really likes, she’ll read everything that author has written. I’m the same way (although I have not read everything...
View ArticleI’ll Make My Garden Grow
So there I am, three pairs of gardening gloves already too muddy to use, surrounded by flats of tomato, lettuce, eggplant, cabbage and leek “starts,” a paper bag full of seed packets and my gardening...
View ArticleWe hold little babies
9/9/12 So my daughter’s best friend from college had a baby yesterday, and being that this young woman calls me her “New York Mommy” and that her parents aren’t flying in from the West Coast for a few...
View ArticleA Wedding in Great Neck
11/5/12 I’m not sure if I finished reading A Wedding in Great Neck by Yona McDonough in one night because I had insomnia, or if I had insomnia because I wanted to finish the book — because once I...
View ArticleSnowflakes for Sandy Hook
As we come close to the one week anniversary of the tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, CT, I can’t get my mind off of the parents whose children never came out. I can’t imagine what...
View ArticleWe Go to the Movies
12/16/12 I don’t know what it is about winter vacation, but Howard, who does not love going to the movies the way I do, suddenly agrees to see almost anything I suggest. Blame our sudden film buff...
View ArticleShe Said Yes to the Dress
Things didn’t bode well for the bridal-gown-shopping excursion. The weather forecasters weren’t sure how much snow the storm would dump on New York City, and the bride had to travel down from Albany....
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