Category: Psychology

October 29, 2013

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem **** (of 4)

Lionel Esrog, along with three friends, is plucked from a Brooklyn orphanage by Frank Minna, a self-made detective and small time Brooklyn nogoodnik. Early in...

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June 1, 2013

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra **** (of 4)

Half a dozen fully realized characters intertwine as the Russian empire disintegrates in the early 2000s and the Republic of Chechnya is obliterated by two...

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December 26, 2012

Marbles by Ellen Forney *** (of 4)

A graphic, graphic-novel of the author’s descent, ascent, descent, and ascent through bipolar disorder. Her story is told with exceptional clarity, honesty, more than a...

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June 21, 2010

She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan *** (of 4)

James Boylan, a college classmate of mine, and chair of the English Department at Colby, at the age of forty could no longer bear the...

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April 30, 2010

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini *** (of 4)

A bottomless well of hopelessness, despair and background warfare in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion of the 80s through the American invasion post 9/11. Seen...

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April 29, 2010

Saturday by Ian McEwan ** (of 4)

Both of my parents, and the critics, raved about this book, so take my review cautiously. The story revolves around the meticulously described single day...

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April 23, 2010

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon **** (of 4)

Christopher Boone has Asperger’s Syndrome and Haddon’s book is the best portrayal of what goes through the mind of a young teen who is simultaneously...

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