Book Review: When Rain Clouds Gather
Reviewed by Michael Attard When Rain Clouds Gather By Bessie Head 186 Pages, Waveland Press, 2013 (Original 1968) ISBN-13: 978-1478607595 When Rain Clouds Gather was first published in 1968 when … Read More
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Book Review: Stoner
By Michael Attard The story Stoner, by John Edward Williams (1922–1994), is fiction but draws from the author’s own life. A tale of humble beginnings from dirt poor farming, flowing … Read More
American Dirt – Book Review, May 2025
By Michael Attard The story is fiction, but the author, Jeanine Cummins, has grippingly brought to the fore one of the greatest social dilemmas, traumas, and moral issues of our … Read More
Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival – Book Review, April 2025
Reviewed by Michael Attard The book is a memoir from World War II Holocaust survivor Franci Rabinek Epstein. Her story mostly relates what happened to her during a three-year period … Read More
Killers of the Flower Moon By David Grann
Reviewed by Michael Attard The Osage Indians have a more than 2000-year history in North America, but I will start in 1803. In that year, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson purchased … Read More
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Reviewed by Michael Attard The children are living in what appears to be a private boarding school for a select few, but something is amiss. There is no mention of … Read More
Think Like A Monk by Jay Shetty
Reviewed by Michael Attard Officially, Jay Shetty was a monk for three years. So, one might ask, “If being a monk is so great, then why did he quit?” Simply … Read More
A Tangled Web: Mata Hari: Dancer, Courtesan, Spy
Mary Craig is an historian specializing in the history of central Europe from 1848 to 1933. Mata Hari was born in 1876 and executed in October 1917. The biography reads … Read More