Tag: book recommendation, book review, literacy matters, Randy Kraft reads, summer reading
Randy Kraft’s OC BookBlog: Two Big Stories from Mexico to Zambia
For your summer reading pleasure, here are two big stories from Mexico to Zambia. ...
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...
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...
