Jenny Lyons
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Book review: Skiing with Henry Knox — by Sam Brakeley
(Islandport Press) Vermont writer and wilderness professional Sam Brakeley (he’s an EMT, former ski patroller, search and rescue team member, trail builder, etc.) doesn’t actually ski with Henry…
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Book review: Solitary — by Albert Woodfox
(Grove Press) Albert Woodfox, who spent 43 years and 10 months in solitary confinement, and Robert King, who spent 29 years in solitary, two of the Angola Three…
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Book review: The Shortest Day — written by Susan Cooper, illustrated by Carson Ellis
(Candlewick Press) The winter solstice, as many readers know, is a day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year. It’s also the…
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Book review: The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division — by Maurice Isserman
(Houghton Mifflin) Maurice Isserman is a virtual encyclopedia of skiing and mountaineering lore and history, and to the reader’s benefit, it is on full display in this fascinating…
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Book review: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee — by David Treuer
(Riverhead Books) Much of what has been taught in schools, and propagated through popular culture about the role of Indians (the term used by the author throughout this…
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Book review: The Innocents — by Michael Crummey
(Doubleday Books) Critically acclaimed Newfoundland author Michael Crummey’s new novel transports the reader to another time, another place. What begins as a story of survival — a sister…
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Book review: Binging with Babish — by Andrew Rea
(Houghton Mifflin) There are a multitude of YouTube stars these days, I know, but bear with me, I believe Andrew Rea, best known for creating the “Binging with…
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Book review: Marley — by Jon Clinch
(Atria Books) When we meet Jacob Marley in Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” and yes, this is the selfsame man in Jon Clinch’s delectable new novel, he is a…
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Book review: Make it Scream, Make it Burn — by Leslie Jamison
(Little Brown and Company) Leslie Jamison, author of the award-winning essay collection, “The Empathy Exams,” is an astute observer of the people she investigates, holding her skepticism in…
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Book review: Street of Storytellers — by Doug Wilhelm
(Rootstock Publishing) Luke isn’t interested in learning anything about Peshawar or Pakistan, because even though his dad “had him over Christmas vacation. It said so in the divorce,”…
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Book review: This Tender Land — by William Kent Krueger
(Atria Books) The epigraph at the beginning of William Kent Krueger’s could not be more apt: “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story” from Homer’s…
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Book review: Renia’s Diary: A holocaust journal — by Renia Spiegel
(St. Martin’s Press) Renia’s diary — because that is what you hold in your hands, the diary of a young girl, a teenager, whose childhood was, as Greta…
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Book review: Made Holy: Essays — by Emily Arnason Casey
(University of Georgia Press) As an essay collection, Emily Arnason Casey’s new book succeeds on every level. Her writing is evocative, relatable, haunting and magical. Using descriptive prose…
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Book review: The Secrets We Kept — by Lara Prescott
(Knopf Publishing Group) As the Cold War began to intensify in the mid-1950s, the not-so-venerable C.I.A., referred to as “the Agency” in Lara Prescott’s sensational new novel, devoted…
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Book review: Frankly in Love — by David Yoon
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers) Frank Li is “Frankly in Love,” but just who is he in love with? Frank, a Korean American teen who runs…
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Book review: The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories — by Ayse Papatya Bucak
(W. W. Norton & Company) A collection of stories as refreshingly cool and bright as these last few weeks have been in our Land of Milk and Honey,…