Book reviews by Bayside resident Stephanie Miller. Stephanie is a voracious reader and bibliophile and spends a lot of time lost in the stacks of bookstores and libraries. Find her online @StephanieSAM.
BOOK SHORT The Death of Vivek OjiA Dazzling, Devastating StoryBy Akwaeke Emezi Review by Stephanie Miller Vivek Oji is dead. Left behind are his high school friends in a small Nigerian town... Read more
BookShort What you are looking for is in the libraryBy Michiko Aoyama By Stephanie Miller I am a sucker for any story that involves books. Publishers surely realize that I’m not alone in thi... Read more
BookShort The First Ladies: A groundbreaking partnership By Stephanie Miller Who says strong women can’t collaborate? Outspoken First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was a capable advocate for civil... Read more
BOOK SHORT ‘Devil Makes Three‘by Ben Fountain By Stephanie Miller Enter the lawlessness of Haiti, 1991, when a violent coup d’etat results in the fall of President Jean-Bertrand... Read more
BOOK SHORT 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife Review by Stephanie Miller Our human fascination with “what’s next” now has a definitive—if irreverent — travel gu... Read more
Book Short ‘Harlem Shuffle’by Colson Whitehead Review by Stephanie Miller Staying straight when everyone around you is getting rich by being crooked is a storyline as old as huma... Read more
Book Short Trustby Hernan Diaz Review by Stephanie Miller There are four sections to “Trust,” a novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author Hernan Diaz. The first is a novel itself, a... Read more
Book Short The Woman They Could Not Silence Review by Stephanie Miller One summer morning in 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a housewife and mother of six, is committed to an insane asylum by... Read more
Book Short ‘The Island of Missing Trees’by Elif Shafak Review by Stephanie Miller Do the trees, flora, and insects of Cyprus have anything to teach citizens torn apart by civil w... Read more
Book Short Klara and the Sunby Kazuo Ishiguro Review by Stephanie Miller In late May, NVIDIA, a maker of chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, was valued at nearly one trill... Read more
