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 ‘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
Book Short How to live freely in a confusing world Review by Stephanie Miller Neighbors play a big role in “Freedom,” a novel by best-selling author Jonathan Franzen. Some are ki... Read more
Book Short In the Shadow of the Banyan Review by Stephanie Miller A child’s world is shattered by civil war in Cambodia. One by one the people she loves are blown up, gone missing, stolen aw... Read more
Book Short A Fortnight in SeptemberBy R.C. Sherriff Review by Stephanie Miller Nothing really happens in this novel, “The Fortnight in September” by R.C. Sherriff. A family takes... Read more
