This past year’s reading took me across islands and interiors, courtrooms and kitchens, remote landscapes, and tightly bound communities. I was drawn to stories set in places to which I traveled over the past year, to voices reclaiming agency, and to books that sit comfortably with moral ambiguity rather than tidy answers. Alongside literary fiction and nonfiction that grapple with justice, ecology, history, and belief, I returned often to mysteries and series novels that I'v

This year, my reading journey was shaped by the San Jose Rotary Club book club, recommendations from my niece Koren, and my own literary...

For the past few years I’ve had a goal to read 52 books a year.  This year I managed to read 57 books. Many were hefty tomes, like Barack...

My reading list reflects gifts I’ve been given, places I travel to, things I want to learn, book reviews I’ve read, and a few books I’ve...

The Sea, by Irish author John Banville, was reviewed in The Guardian as one of the best Irish novels. Because I have plans to travel to...

More time seems to have past than it has since I read my first book of 2021—Squirrels: The Animal Answer Guide. A non-fiction book, it...