Roxanne reviews Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House by Eleanor Herman As excessive as the title is,...

Roxanne reviews Antkind by Charlie Kaufman I instinctively knew I’d like film director Charlie Kaufman’s first work of fiction, Antkind. ...

Saturday, August 29th is Independent Bookstore Day! Do you love indie bookstores and Sarasota? Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day! To...

Roxanne reviews I’m Your Huckleberry: A Memoir by Val Kilmer. As a bookseller, I’m sometimes asked for recommendations for the following...

Roxanne reviews Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age by Bruce Feiler. Anyone who reads books knows that a book is...

Katia reviews Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. For readers of horror and Gothic Literature alike, Mexican Gothic, set in Mexico in...

Roxanne Reviews The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck by Christian Busch, PhD. The Serendipity Mindset: The...

Roxanne Reviews Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek Murthy. Join Roxanne for The Mindful...

I’ve had a lot of questions from friends and patrons along the lines of, “Is the bookstore open yet?” So I thought it made sense to fill...

Roxanne reviews More Miracle Than Bird by Alice Miller. Historical Fiction has often been analogous to lima beans to me, I’ll read it,...

Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler In the era of my initial work in hospitals—most of what we knew about the...

Oh my Lord! I loved Jenny Slate's stand up and her movie Obvious Child, but wondered about her new book, Little Weirds. But after...

Even if you don’t listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you might remember Flea as the crazy shaved head bass playing hyena during Super...

Sally Rooney’s Normal People is a beautiful novel about the complex, enduring relationship between two strange, sensitive young friends...

It almost seems impossible to review a novel that’s over 650 pages long…..I mean how to begin? The Old Drift caught me up immediately...

What matters more than anything for me with poetry, and particularly poetry of this caliber, is the emotive connection. These are...

Katia reviews My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer wants you to think it is funny. And the...

Roxanne Reviews The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Lethem’s book The Feral Detective is a marvel in many ways. First,...

Roxanne reviews Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker by Barry Sonnenfeld When we were on our last day of...

by Kate Murphy Reviewed by Katia Diamond-Sagias  Kate Murphy’s You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters is the first...