‘The Haunting on East 27th’
– REVIEW – If you love a good mystery, ghost story, or history, Michael C. Dooling delivers all three in this slim volume.
Book Review: “Connecticut 169 Club”
– REVIEW – Part travel guide, part treasure hunt, part social network, “Connecticut 169 Club” is a lively, entertaining and well-illustrated guide to the state’s 169 municipalities.
Book Review: “A Captain’s Duty” by Richard Phillips
Although the Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips” does a good job of telling the story (and Hanks does a good rendition of the captain), the book carries the audience through his personal back story, family life, and an hour-by-hour account of the adventure with the Somali pirates.
Book Review: ‘IF’ by Christopher Benfey
Benfey examines Kipling’s letters and papers, and those of his contemporaries, and tells the story of the decade in which the author tried to fit in as a nouveau American — and then abruptly abandoned the plan.
Book Review: 2 by Tracey O’Shaughnessy
This is writing in color, a rarity among the ink-stained grunts of the newspaper world (this reviewer included).