Because this post is more self-serving than most, I must first implore you - if time is of the essence, skip this and just go and purchase ...

Did you love Major Pettigrew's Last Stand?  You did if you read it - so if you haven't, just go.  Go do that.  When you come ba...

When I picked up Milena Busquets' novel, This Too Shall Pass, I was charmed immediately.   Charmed by our narrator, Blanca.  Blanca who...

Ethan Canin.  I can't stress enough how much he shaped the ideas that the young version of me - Nick 1.0 - began to have about writ...

Yann Martel has written an exquisite novel, The High Mountains of Portugal , that called out for an exquisite concoction that would begin a...

To say that a book made me laugh out loud is a cliché ‎ - and I hate clichés.  I hit them with shovels when I find them, then I bury them...

Drinks With Nick ?  Twelve months, twelve books, twelve drinks, all in 2015.  So those books aren't on this list - though of course...