A Long Way from Verona
by Jane Gardam
MADE-UP
Jessica Vye is a 13-year-old girl living in the North of England during World War II. Yet she maintains that the “violent” experience that shaped her was being told, at the age of 9, by visiting autho... (Anika)
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
by Alia Volz
TRUE
When an advance copy of Home Baked arrived at the store, I took it home hoping merely to escape into the iconic 1970s San Francisco setting. I never anticipated that this memoir would give me an in-de... (Haley)
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
MADE-UP Phinney by Post #64
I really think of this as two books. There's the novel itself, a beautiful, thoughtful channeling of the great late-Roman emperor that is graced by an elegant, regal reticence and one of the rare powe... (Tom)
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