by Do South | Dec 1, 2014 | Books
[title subtitle=”reviews: Anita Paddock”][/title] I’m looking forward to Christmas more than I have in a long time. There is a little girl named Violet in my family, and her presence will make for a lively time around the tree. And as everyone knows, the...
by Do South | Oct 1, 2014 | Books
[title subtitle=”review Anita Paddock”][/title] By Larry McMurtry W. W. Norton, 195 pages: $24.95 A fellow booklover gave me this to read when I was under the weather recently. It’s a perfect “recovery novel,” so beautifully written it transports you to...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2014 | Books
[title subtitle=”review Thomas Cochran”][/title] By John Ed Bradley, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 265 pages: $17.99 Integration came hard to the Deep South in the early 1970s, the period John Ed Bradley examines in Call Me by My Name, his seventh...
by Do South | Jul 1, 2014 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Anita Paddock”][/title] By Vinh Chung with Tim Downs Thomas Nelson Publishing Co, 353 pages: $23 Where the Wind Leads is a memoir told by one of eight children whose parents fled South Vietnam in 1979. The Chung family was Chinese...
