“I liked the form of Movement very much – it is indeed a novel of movement, political, personal movement from country to country and subculture to subculture…vignettes and stories out of Susan’s life, but never episodic, always carrying her development as a person and as a political personage a s...
Four young women - all from varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds come together to start training at a secretarial school. Secretary is not their first choice of job but they think that this would be a stepping stone to whatever their dream job is. Whether it be the movies or journalism or teac...
XXX I am so pleased that through the giveaway program at Goodreads I was able to be introduced to Valerie Miner and her works. This book will go on my keepers shelf, so that I may wander again the high Sierra's through Ms Miner's eyes.Range of Light is a nostalgic return to the Sierra Range in Y...
he says, “Slim. Well.” The first words to his daughter in four years. As he collapses in the overstuffed chair, she notices that he is not well. Not slim. Two-hundred-fifty pounds on five foot ten. All these years his weight has trailed her like Claudius. She is sad, repulsed, confused that she c...
She stood at the window watching him walk up Stockton Street carrying a brown bag. The sun glinted off his new wire-rimmed glasses. They did make him look more intellectual, as Moira said, almost middle-aged and distinguished. But everything else about him was that of a young man, like his long g...
Amy was not due for three hours; Matt and Shirley had promised tomorrow morning. Nervously Nan walked into the visitors’ room. She looked around and saw Lisa, or rather, the back of Lisa’s curly head. (The hair. Blonde hair in the dark night. Lisa’s fair hair would have tu...