Food

Subject: Food Fast and Delicious Mexican Meals by Alice Guadalupe Tapp and California Soul by Keith Corbin Our reader remembers tasting the most glorious fresh corn tamales in San Diego in 1975. He has been hunting for them ever since. His search led him to these two...

John Steinbeck

Subject John Steinbeck Flight, a short story For centuries Big Sur residents spoke of “The Dark Watchers.” John Steinbeck grew up in Salinas and spoke of them in this short story.  In the tale a teenage Indigenous Mexican American boy kills a man and is forced to flee...

August 2024 Odd Couples

Senior Book Break Subject: Odd Couples A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Count Alexander Rostov, born into Russian aristocracy, finds himself in Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the luxury hotel, Metropol, he...

Ancient Egypt

Crocodile on The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Our heroine is Emily Peabody in the first of six books. Our reader said she did not get to Egypt till 20 pages before the middle of the book. She found it very wordy, tedious, and skipped around even within a paragraph. ...

Uni the Unicorn

A magical and original story of friendship which reminds us that dreams really can come true. No matter what the grown-up unicorns say, little Uni the Unicorn believes there must be a smart, strong, wonderful, magical little girl waiting to be her best friend. Today...