Lisa Genova | Lisa Genova
Jul.14.2012
Was it someone here on Red Room who wrote about this book? I don't remember where or when I read a reference to it, but it was recently and I had done what I usually do, signed on to the library's website and put in a request. I picked it up Thursday, starting it yesterday and finishing...
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Jan.16.2011
John and I just returned from spending the weekend on the gorgeous Isle of Palms, near Charleston, South Carolina, where I was part of an authors’ luncheon at the Wild Dunes Resort. It was so much fun to chat with readers, meet the four other authors who spoke on a panel with me, and spend time...
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May.04.2010
Sometimes books sit on one's to-read pile too long. Their cover becomes too familiar and perhaps you've heard so much about the book you feel as though you've read it already-perhaps by osmosis.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Still Alice waited too long. On the other hand, it was such a magnificent read...
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Dec.20.2009
The forty-billion-dollar book industry is in flux because its old business model of consignment, where bookstores can return unsold books, isn't working, according to a Time magazine article earlier this year. Consignment is great for bookstores, which are squeezed for profit, but the shipping...
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