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  • The Bookworm Sez0

    Whodunit? Sometimes, the answer is known before you even have a chance to hear the whole story. Other times, the story of a crime is more than just a murder or a B&E. Either way, most definitely, you need a good true-crime book, like maybe one of these… What you’ll read inside “Shadow of the

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Joyride: A Memoir” by Susan Orlean

    The Bookworm Sez: “Joyride: A Memoir” by Susan Orlean0

    You’ve got the pedal to the metal. Ninety miles an hour, that’s how you live your life. Zooming here, careening around corners, racing to the next deadline, the next milestone, the next goal. Once in awhile, you run out of fuel, but it’s back on the road tomorrow and you can’t imagine living any other

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival” by Maria Pinto

    The Bookworm Sez: “Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival” by Maria Pinto0

    Something weird is growing on your kitchen sink. It wasn’t there last night but today? Yeah, and it’s not intentional. You need to get rid of it somehow, wipe it off, kill it, eliminate it altogether or, as in the new book “Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless” by Maria Pinto, maybe study it and eat it. Junjo

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  • The Bookworm Sez: Consider: lost and found.0

    The first one is miserable — whatever you need or want is gone, maybe for good. The second one can be joyful, a celebration of great relief and a reminder to look in the same spot next time you need that which you first lost. Loss hurts. But as in the new novel, “Bog Queen”

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Vanished: Seven Women Magicians Who Simply Disappeared” by Anna Hays0

    Abracadabra! And poof, the magician disappeared just like that. But don’t worry, you’ve seen acts like this and he’ll be back. His lovely assistant will help him onstage and the show will go on. But what if the roles were reversed? In the new book “Vanished” by Anna Hays, what if the magician was a

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