Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Elmet” by Fiona Mozley
Now and then a debut novel knocks your socks off. Without fuss or complexity, told in humble descriptive prose, you are from the first in...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Elmet” by Fiona Mozley
Now and then a debut novel knocks your socks off. Without fuss or complexity, told in humble descriptive prose, you are from the first in...
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OC Book Blog: “A Ladder to the Sky” by John Boyne
The Irish writer John Boyne is on a winning streak. Following the commercial success of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas," he published a...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Uncommon Cause: General George Lee Butler”
An uncommonly fascinating memoir of military life. By Randy Kraft We all assume we know something of military life. We’ve seen...
OC Book Blog: “The End of Days” by Jenny Erpenbeck
Too often the great works of other languages to do not come to the English-speaking reader. We miss out on a lot of great fiction and...
Randy Kraft’ OC Book Blog: “Educated” By Tara Westover
By Randy Kraft Tara Westover is a PhD from the School of Hard Knocks. Truth, in this memoir, is definitely stranger than fiction. If...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “A Sport and a Pastime” by James Salter
A sixties gem you may have missed. By Randy Kraft James Salter is what they call a writer’s writer. He is a master of clarity....
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Mars Room” by Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner is one of those writers who grab you at once or confound you. Or both. In "The Mars Room," her fourth novel, she grabs you...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje
A modern master tells a melancholy tale of post-WWII Britain. By Randy Kraft Everything we read about war is about the war –...
Randy Kraft’s Top 10 Books for Summer Reading
Timely cultural fiction, short stories, a time-traveler tale and personal sagas round out the best in beach reading with stories that all...
