Escape to Books

The Nature of Words is a great literary event that happens in Bend every November. This year I was lucky enough to go to a workshop by...

I grew up on the rainy side of the Cascades. I moved away for awhile and was freaked out by a year of blue skies in Northern California...

I have one of T. C. Boyle’s books, The Tortilla Curtain , in my top ten favorite fiction list. I was happy to see he had a new novel come ou...

This novel is based on the diary (and other material) of an American in Nanjing when the Japanese invaded in 1937. Minnie Vautrin is the tem...

Straight Man is one of my favorite books. I find it laugh out loud funny and I don’t say that about many books. The main character and narr...