The Book: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
The Story: While he was still living and working in Oak Park, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to build a house for Edwin and Mamah Cheney. It didn’t take long at all for Frank and Mamah to realize that they had a lot in common and start to fall [...]
The Book: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Story: A shepherd boy living in Spain (I think…) has a dream one night about treasure that is hidden in Egypt. He makes the decision to follow his dreams, so he sells his sheep and sets off.
Along the way, he meets many people who guide him along this [...]
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
I really, really want to like this book. I have had a thing for Frank Lloyd Wright since we studied him in a class my junior year of high school. I only know a small amount about his personal life, so I was really intrigued by this book since it came [...]
The Book: Pharmakon…or the Story of a Happy Family, by Dirk Wittenborn
The Story: In 1952, William Friedrich is teaching psychology at Yale. In a bar one night, he overhears another professor talking about a trip she took to South America and a leaf that the tribes would take to calm people down or help after [...]
The Book: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, by Robert Alexander
The Story: This is the story of the last weeks of the Romanov family, told through the eyes of Leonka, the kitchen boy. When they were moved to the “House of Special Purpose” during the Revolution, only 5 servants went with them [...]
The Book: The House of Tomorrow, by Peter Bognanni
The Story: Sebastian’s parents died when he was very young and since then he’s been living with his grandma in a glass dome outside of town. She has all these semi-crazy beliefs and, while Sebastian is allowed to leave the dome from time to time, he is [...]
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
I’m sure that most bibliophiles have fond memories of this book, whether they read it when they were 10 or 18 or 39 or whenever. It’s one of those classics that is pretty much universally loved, so probably nothing I’m going to say here will blow your mind, but [...]
The Book: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Story: Nick sees his ex-girlfriend (who he is still pretty much in love with) in a bar with another guy and impulsively asks the girl closest to him to be his girlfriend for five minutes to show his ex-girlfriend that he’s over [...]
The Book: The World Made By Hand, by James Howard Kunstler
The Story: This book takes place in the not-so-distant future, maybe 30 years or so. There have been wars and a couple flu pandemics and things have fallen apart. Electricity is gone and there’s no cars or trucks. Communication has fizzled to nothing. Pretty much, [...]
The Book: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Steig Larsson
The Story: So, there are really two stories going on here at the same time and they are both pretty complex. I’m just going to break it down real quick and avoid any spoilers. Here ya go:
The Vanger Corporation is one of the largest corporations [...]