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’s OC Book Blog: “Quichotte” by Salman Rushdie
Not for everyone, for sure, Quichotte (pronounced key-shot) is, nonetheless, a great ride, for the masterful writing as well as keen...
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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...
OC Book Blog: “There There” by Tommy Orange
By Randy Kraft Gertrude Stein, in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, famously wrote of her childhood town of Oakland, there is no...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
The world had six million trees, when people showed up. Half remain. Half again more will disappear, in a hundred years. ~ The Overstory,...
OC Book Blog: “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday
A unique first novel by another mid-life accomplished writer (like Cherise Wolas’ recently reviewed debut The Resurrection of Joan...
