Wally Wood
Reviewer Wally Wood: Wally is an editor and writer, has published three novels, Getting Oriented:A Novel about Japan, The Girl in the Photo and Death in a Family Business. He obtained his MA in creative writing in 2002 from the City University of New York and has worked with a number of authors as a ghostwriter and collaborator.
With an extensive background in a variety of business subjects, his credits include twenty-one nonfiction books. He spent twenty-five years as a trade magazine reporter and editor and has been a volunteer writing and business teacher in state and federal prisons for more than twenty years. He has finished his fourth novel and has translated a collection of Japanese short stories into English.
Articles by this Author
To Light the Flame of Reason Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 20, 2022
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Christer Sturmark;translator, Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 978-1633-88774-9
Apparently There Were Complaints Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 26, 2022
- Biographies & Memoirs
The Land of Short Sentences Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 10, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Wrapped in Rainbows Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 2, 2022
- Biographies & Memoirs
School Days Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookplasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 26, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Black, White, and Gray All Over Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 24, 2022
- Biographies & Memoirs
The Plot Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 4, 2022
- Fantasy
Wayward Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 28, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Housekeeper and the Professor Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 14, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Hole Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 13, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Home Reading Service Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 11, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Prince Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 26, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
People from My Neighborhood Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 22, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Second Place Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 14, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Florida Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 5, 2022
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
It’s Getting Dark Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 27, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Thursday Murder Club reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 18, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Anomaly Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 6, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Revenge of the Translator Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 4, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Cunning Man, An Appreciation by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 29, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
No Time to Spare Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 30, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Four Thousand Weeks Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 25, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
The Woman in the Purple Skirt Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 21, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Post-Birthday World Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 11, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Authenticity Code Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 4, 2021
- Business
Son of Svea Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 28, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Striking Range Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 20, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Way of the Writer Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 17, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Blacktop Wasteland Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 11, 2021
- Crime & Mystery
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 20, 2021
- Non-Fiction -Reviews
Author: George
Saunders
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 978-1-9848-56029-1
If you are unable to be admitted to the Syracuse University writing program (it accepts six students a year from an applicant pool of between six and seven hundred), the next best thing is George Saunders’ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.
Late Summer Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 13, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Inheritors Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 9, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Back to Japan Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 5, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Terminal Boredom Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 27, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
High as the Horses’ Bridles Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 20, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
This Life Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 10, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Death Comes to Pemberly Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 5, 2021
- Crime & Mystery
Redeployment An Appreciation by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 30, 2021
- ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
The Heart Remembers Reviewed by Wally Wood of BookPleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 24, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Factory Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 25, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
2207 South Green Road Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 23, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
This Little Art Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 23, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
The Little Virtues Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 12, 2021
- Biographies & Memoirs
Barcelona Dreaming Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 28, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Mantel Pieces Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 24, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
The Word is Murder Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 15, 2021
- Crime & Mystery
Rural Rebellion Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 5, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Keats’s Odes Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 1, 2021
- General Non-Fiction
Slow Boat Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 15, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Meeting in Positano Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 12, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
ISBN: 978-1635-42043-2
A Question of Identity Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 5, 2021
- Crime & Mystery
Spring Garden Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 27, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Half of a Yellow Sun Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 19, 2021
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Love Kills Reviewed By Wally Wood Of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 11, 2021
- Crime & Mystery
Night Train Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 16, 2020
- Crime & Mystery
John Donne Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 7, 2020
- Biographies & Memoirs
Arguing with Zombies Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 30, 2020
- General Non-Fiction
Wild Horses on the Salt Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 4, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Anne
Montgomery
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN: 979-8-64967-810-0
On Tràigh Lar Beach Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 1, 2020
- Fiction
The Money Plot Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 28, 2020
- Non-Fiction -Reviews
Author: FrederickKaufman
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 978-1-59051-718-6
Tokyo Ueno Station Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 17, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Meaning of Everything Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 14, 2020
- General Non-Fiction
Author: SimonWinchester
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:0-19-860702-4
Proustian Uncertanties Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 9, 2020
- General Non-Fiction
Homesick Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 8, 2020
- Biographies & Memoirs
Childhood is a foreign country in which we've all lived but few of us can evoke the landscape and the events we lived through the way Jennifer Croft does in Homesick.
Flights Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 28, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Green Road Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 24, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Gathering Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 10, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Sword and the Shield Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 29, 2020
- Non-Fiction -Reviews
Actress Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 18, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: AnneEnright
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
978-1-32400562-9
By writing this, I am, to some extent, taking the edge off your opportunity to experience the same pleasure. But I'm going ahead in the hope you'll read Actress anyway.
It is a novel in the form of a memoir. The narrator is an Irish woman, Norah FitzMaurice, who is a novelist writing about her actress mother, Katherine O'Dell. One of the many reasons I like the novel is because Enright ignores the advice for how to write a novel: inciting incident followed by rising action reaching a climax and denouement. I'm not sure Actress has a plot any more than any life has a plot.
The Opportunity Agenda Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 8, 2020
- Non-Fiction -Reviews
Authors: Winston Fisher,Sly James
Publisher: Amplify Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-64543-081-0
The Opportunity Agenda has to be one of a library of books proposing ideas that if pursued will, the authors believe, make America if not great much better than it was before the pandemic.
Subtitled A Bold Democratic Plan to Grow the Middle Class, the book discusses with statistics and illustrative anecdotes five areas in which Sly James and Winston Fisher think should and can be improved: childcare for pre-school children; high school and college education; infrastructure; the social contract, and entrepreneurship.
Coventry: Essays reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 31, 2020
- GENERAL NON-FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Rachel
Cusk
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
ISBN:
978-1-250-61958-7
Because I was dazzled by Rachel Cusk's trilogy, Outline, Transit, Kudos, I bought her collection of essays Coventry. Although I wrote about the novels in this blog, Katy Waldman did a much better job in The New Yorker.
She wrote they "represent an attempt to remake the novel, to establish a blueprint for a form of negative literature. Cusk believes that traditional fiction is broken; she seems to long for an alternative that is wholly unauthored, without artifice.
In the service of that vision, she dispenses with every convention she can think of: plot, dialogue, interiority.
The Vanishing Trial Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 26, 2020
- Biographies & Memoirs
Kennedy and King Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 21, 2020
- History
Redefining Possible Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 17, 2020
- Self Help & How To's
Authors: Dustin Hillis and
Ron Alford
Publisher: Southwestern Books
ISBN:
978-1-941800-50-8
Synthesizing Gravity Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 15, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Breasts and Eggs Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 12, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Silver Spoon Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 22, 2020
- Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Naka Kansuke(Etsuko Terasaki, translator)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0-914090-14-3
Straight From The Horse’s Mouth Reviewed by Wally Wood of BookPleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 28, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
And Their Children After Them Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 26, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Antidote for Everything Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 3, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Sweet Indifference Of The World Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 25, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
BellVs for Eli Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 15, 2020
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Fall Back Down When I Die Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 16, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Pain Reviewed By Wally Wood Of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 3, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Unpassing Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 19, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Indulgence Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 30, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Labyrinth Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 9, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
After This Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 7, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Bishop’s Daughter Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 15, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Honor Moore
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0393335361
Costalegre Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 8, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Courtney Maum
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 978-1-947793-36-1
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 12, 2019
- General Non-Fiction
Author: AlexKotlowitz
Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
ISBN:
978-0-385-53880-0
I [Love] Lord Buddha Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 14, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
A Better World Starts Here Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 5, 2019
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Stacy Russo
Publisher: Sanctuary Publishers
ISBN: 9-780998-99466-6
Everybody Has a Book Inside of Them Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 25, 2019
- GENERAL NON-FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Ann Marie Sabath
Publisher: Career Press
ISBN: 978-1-63265-169-3
I Am A Stranger Here Myself Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 11, 2019
- Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Debra Gwartney
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 978-0-8263-6071-7
The Magazine Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 16, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Daemon Voices Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 7, 2019
- GENERAL NON-FICTION REVIEWS
The Elements of Eloquence Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 27, 2019
- GENERAL NON-FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Mark Forsyth
Publisher: Berkeley Books
ISBN: 978-0-425-27618-1
Bones of the Earth Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 23, 2019
- Crime & Mystery
Early Work Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 3, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: AndrewMartin
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Bigger Than Business Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 7, 2019
- Business
Author: JeffHoller
Publisher: High Bridge Books
ISBN: 978-1-946615-15-2
In Other Words Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 26, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 978-1-101-91146-4
All Happy Families Reviewed By Wally Wood Of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 21, 2019
- Biographies & Memoirs
Dark Sacred Night Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 13, 2019
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 978-0-316-48480-0
Women Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 10, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Fun Parts Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 6, 2019
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
ISBN: 978-0-374-29890-6
The Suspect Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 24, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Spirit of the Fox Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 16, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Trail of the Demon Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 19, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Polite Lies Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 13, 2018
- Non-Fiction -Reviews
Publisher: Fawcett Books
ISBN: 0-449-00428-7
The Travelling Cat Chronicles Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 17, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author:Hiro Arikawa
Publisher: Berkeley
ISBN: 978-0-451-49133-6
Hiro Arikawa's The Traveling Cat Chronicles (旅猫リポート) is an delightful novel on a couple levels. First, it has an interesting structure. Second, Philip Gabriel has done an impressive job of rendering Arikawa's Japanese into English. (Gabriel has also translated Kenzaburo Oe's Somersault and four Haruki Murakami novels including Kafka on the Shore, so he's got some chops.) Third, as a small book—about 5.5" x 7.5"—it is a pleasure to hold.
Kudos Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 9, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: RachelCusk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
978-037-427986-8
Kudos is the third
book in Rachel Cusk's trilogy. I've discussed the two earlier
books, Outline and Transit. As in those
novels, Kudos has no conventional plot as defined in my
on-line dictionary as "the main events of a novel devised and
presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence." There is
no rising action leading to a denouement. The narrator, a middle-aged
British novelist, flies to an unnamed foreign city (it sounds like
Dubrovnik to me but it could be Gdansk) to speak at a literary
festival and people talk to her.
Grand Lac Reviewed By Wally Wood of Brookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 28, 2018
- Crime & Mystery
Author: CarlBrookins
Publisher: Brookins Books LLC
ISBN: 978-0-9969991-0-6
Carl Brookins has created an interesting crime-fighting duo, Marjorie Kane and Alan Lockem. They are married, live in Minneapolis, and sound as if they are in their late 50s, early 60s. Marjorie is an exceptionally well-preserved former stripper. Lockem is a "private consultant," whatever that means. He's not a PI. "Some people call him a salvage expert." In any case, the two help people in trouble.
Ohio Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 24, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author:
Stephen Markley
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-5011-7447-6
Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 28, 2018
- Reference
Into English Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 26, 2018
- Poetry
Dukla Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 19, 2018
- Biographies & Memoirs
Author: AndrzejStasiuk
Publisher: Dalkey Archive
ISBN: 978-1-56478-687-6
Dukla is a small town in southeastern Poland on the Jasiolka river at the foot of Cergowa mountain. It has a population of about 2,200 people, a 17th century town hall, the ruins of a 1758 synagogue, the ruins of a 16th century border tax office, the ruins of a brewery. In 1944, the Battle of the Dukla Pass left 90 percent of the town in ruins. In 1997, Pope John Paul II visited and in his sermon mentioned John of Dukla, one of the patron saints of Poland and Lithuania.
Killing Trail Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 14, 2018
- Crime & Mystery
Author: MargaretMizushima
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 978-1-62593-381-0
Killing Trail is Margaret Mizushima's first Timber Creek K-9 mystery. I wanted to read it because I enjoyed the fourth in the series, Burning Ridge. In Killing Trail we are introduced to Deputy Mattie Cobb who has just completed twelve weeks of training with Robo, the county's new police service dog. We meet Cole Walker, Timber Creek's only veterinarian, whose wife has left him and their two daughters. We meet the town's sheriff, Abraham McCoy, and another deputy, Brody, who resents Mattie because she beat him in the competition to become the town's K-9 officer. We also meet Detective Stella LoSasso who is called in from the county seat to take charge of the investigation of the crime and who, by book four, is living in Timber Creek.
Burning Ridge Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 7, 2018
- Crime & Mystery
Murder on the Quai Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 2, 2018
- Crime & Mystery
Ginseng Tango Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 29, 2018
- Biographies & Memoirs
Author: CherylPallant
Publisher: Big Table Publishing Co.
ISBN:
978-1-945917-14-1
In 2007 Cheryl Pallant accepted an offer as Visiting Lecturer at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. She had "no images of its landscape and architecture, no familiarity with its language, people, history, or culture" other than that American soldiers fought against communism there in the 1950s. Pallant, in the middle of a divorce after a 15-year marriage, was moving from Richmond, Virginia, population 223,000 to Daegu, a city of 2.5 million people in south-central Korea. Ginseng Tango is a memoir of her year there.
The Existentialist's Survival Guide Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 24, 2018
- GENERAL NON-FICTION REVIEWS
Author:Gordon Marino, PhD
Publisher: HarperOne
978-0-06-243598-9
It sounds like an interesting and practical book: The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age. The author, Gordon Marino, PhD, "is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College" in Minnesota. He's written and edited a number of books about Kierkegaard and is also "an award-winning boxing writer for The Wall Street Journal and other outlets."
In Red Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 22, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Because Bill Johnston led the workshop I attended at the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, I bought his translation of In Red by Magdalena Tulli. Johnston has published over thirty book-length translations from the Polish, including poetry, prose, and drama. He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.
Magdalena Tulli is a Polish novelist and translator and is one of Poland's leading writers. She's won the Gdynia Literary Prize and been short-listed five times for the Nike Award, Poland's most prominent literary prize. While her own novels have been translated into a number of languages, she has translated Proust, Calvino, and Fleur Jaeggy into Polish.
Harmless Like You Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 17, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
ISBN: 978-1-324-00074-7
The Worst Business Model in the World Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 5, 2018
- Business
Author: DannySchuman
Publisher: Cortado Press
ISBN: 978-0-692068-526
It's certainly a provocative title: The Worst Business Model in the World: A New Kind of Guide for a New Kind of Entrepreneur. It also stretches plausibility. The worst in the entire world? Worse than one that leads to divorce, prison, suicide? One like Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC?
Murder to the Metal Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 23, 2018
- Crime & Mystery
Author: AnnieHogsett
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN: 978-1-4642-0-9994
Annie Hogsett sets up an interesting situation for her "Somebody's Bound to Wind Up Dead Mystery" series. In the first book, Too Lucky to Live, (which I have not read and which is not necessary to read to enjoy Murder to the Metal), Thomas Bennington III a blind professor at Cleveland's Case-Western Reserve University buys a lottery ticket to show a young friend that it's a waste of money and unfortunately wins the $550,000,000 MondoMegaJackpot. At that point, Tom has already met Alice (Allie) Jane Harper, who narrates both books. Complications ensue.
Little Fires Everywhere Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 22, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
ISBN: 978-0-7352-2429-2
Meltdown Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 18, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: G PJames
Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
ISBN:
978-1-948018-07-4
The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 19, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Kia
Corthron
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 978-160980-657-6
The Road to Vermillion Lake Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 17, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Vic Cavalli
Publisher: Harvard Square Editions
ISBN: 978-1-941861-40-0
Idaho Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 22, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Emily Ruskovich
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 978-0-399-59121-1
The Nakano Thrift Shop Reviewed By Wally Wood Of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 14, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Hiromi Kawakami
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 978--=60945-399-2
Swimming Lessons Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 17, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Clare Fuller
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 9781941040515
Some Danger Involved Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 10, 2018
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Will Thomas
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 0-7432-5619-0
Sophie's World Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 17, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Jostein Gaarder (Paulette Møller, translator)
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
ISBN: 0-374-26642-5
Tell the Wolves I'm Home Reviewed By Wally Wood of Brookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 13, 2018
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Carol Rifka Brunt
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8285-5
Death Without Company Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 6, 2018
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Craig Johnson
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0-670-03467-3
Ties Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 27, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Domenico Starnone
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 978-1-60945=385-5
Strange Weather in Tokyo Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 17, 2017
- Romance
Author: Hiromi Kawakami
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 978-1-84627-510-4
Mrs. Chartwell and the Cat Burglar Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 7, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Pamela Gossiaux
Publisher: Tri-Cat Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9976387-5-2
Red Bones reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 4, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Minotaur Books (St. Martin's Press)
ISBN: 978-0-312-38434-0
A Carrion Death Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 15, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Michael Stanley
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-125240-2
Cassada Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 7, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: James Salter
Publisher: Counterpoint
ISBN: 1-887178-89-9
Spoonbenders Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 4, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Deryl Gregory
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN: 978-15247-3182-3
The Undoing Project Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 25, 2017
- Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W,W, Norton & Company
ISBN: 978-0393254594
Never Stop Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 28, 2017
- Biographies & Memoirs
The Hidden Machinery Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 19, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Margot Livesey
Publisher: Tin House
ISBN: 978-1-941040-68-3
The Lineup Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 16, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Hilltop Doc Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 12, 2017
- Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Leonard Adreon
Publisher: Leonard Adreon
ISBN: 978-0-9960225-5-2
Rogue Lawyer Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 7, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Dell Books
ISBN: 978-0-553-39348-4
Beautiful Mess Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 29, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Magpie Murders Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 17, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Anthony Horotwitz
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-0626-4522-7
Black Diamond Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 10, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Last Train Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 7, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Micheal Pronko
Publisher: Raked Gravel Press
ISBN: 978-1-942410-12-6
To the Back of Beyond Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published July 4, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 26, 2017
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Elena Ferrante
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 978-1-60945-292-6
The Association of Small Bombs Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 23, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Karan Mahajan
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 978-0-14-310927-3
Hag-Seed Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published June 11, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 978-0-8041-4129-1
The Fall of Language in the Age of English Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 28, 2017
- General Non-Fiction
Outline Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 28, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Infinite Summer Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 12, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Reading Lolita in Tehran Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 23, 2017
- Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0-965-47080-6
Skeleton God Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 16, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Eliot Pattison
Publisher Minotaur Books
ISBN: 978-1250067623
A Man Called Ove Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 5, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Fredrik Backman
Publisher: Washington Square Press
ISBN: 978--1-4767-3802-4
Rather Be the Devil Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 1, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 978-0-316-34257-5
Public Information Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 20, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Rolf Margenau
Publisher: Frogworks Publishing
ISBN: 978--0-99761-583-8
Bone Gap Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 12, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Laura Ruby
Publisher: Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins)
ISBN:978-0-06-231762-9
The Art of Fiction Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 9, 2017
- General Non-Fiction
Author: James Salter
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 978-0-8139-3905-6
A Beautiful Blue Death Review By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 6, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Charles Finch
Publisher: St. Martin's/Minotaur
ISBN: 978-0-312-35977-5
Inheritance From Mother Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 3, 2017
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Old Man Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published January 25, 2017
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: The Mysterious Press
ISBN: 978-0-8021-2586-6
A Voice in the Night Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 27, 2016
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Andrea Camilleri
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 978-0-14-312644-7
The Courage of a Samurai Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 25, 2016
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Lori Tsugawa Whaley
Publisdher: Aviva Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-938686-82-5
The Good Daughter Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 8, 2016
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
You May See a Stranger Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 1, 2016
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Paula Whyman
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
ISBN: 9-78-0810-13-3532
The Wrong Side of Goodbye Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 25, 2016
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 978-0-316-22594
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 18, 2016
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Angela Duckworth
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 978-1-5011-1110-5
Postcards From Ed Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 15, 2016
- General Non-Fiction
But What If We're Wrong? Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 7, 2016
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
ISBN: 978-0-399-18412-3
The Last Kashmiri Rose Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 4, 2016
- Crime & Mystery
The Inside Passage Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 30, 2016
- Crime & Mystery
Author: Carl Brookins
Publisher: Brookins Books
ISBN: 978-0-9853906-7-9
The Boy in the Suitcase Reviewed by Wally Wood of Brookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 29, 2016
- Crime & Mystery
Authors: Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 978-1-56947-981-0
Nisei Reviewed By Wally Wood Of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 22, 2016
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: J.J. White
Publisher: Black Opal Books
ISBN: 978-1-62694-432-9
In the Woods Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published August 8, 2016
- Crime & Mystery
One Hundred Days Of Rain Reviewed By Wally Wood Of Brookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 23, 2016
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
Author: Carellin Brooks
Publisher: Book Thug
ISBN: 978-1-77166-090-7
At Home Abroad Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 23, 2016
- General Non-Fiction
Editors: Betsy and Mark Blondin
Publisher: Word Metro Press
ISBN: 978-0-9886228-1-4
Therapy Through Journaling Reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 15, 2016
- Self Help & How To's
Freshwater Road Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published May 2, 2016
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
The Reluctant Soldier Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published April 9, 2016
- Biographies & Memoirs
Unemployable! reviewed by Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published March 20, 2016
- Self Help & How To's
Author: David Thomas Roberts
Publisher: Defiance Press
ISBN: 978-0-9962590-4-0
Funeral Hotdish Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published February 17, 2016
- Crime & Mystery
Incarceration Nations Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published December 29, 2015
- General Non-Fiction
In the Land of the Kami Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 23, 2015
- General Non-Fiction
Author: Michael Hoffman
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-62137-765-8
Our Story Begins Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published November 3, 2015
- GENERAL FICTION REVIEWS
White Leopard Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 28, 2015
- Crime & Mystery
Blackman's Coffin Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published October 10, 2015
- Crime & Mystery
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One Reviewed By Wally Wood Of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 30, 2015
- General Non-Fiction
Tsunami Reflections Reviewed By Wally Wood of Bookpleasures.com
- By Wally Wood
- Published September 25, 2015
- General Non-Fiction