Sonya Schryer Norris

Plum Dragon book club: The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go

In the realm of hit or misses this book was a miss. Most of the books I read with Dragon I end up really liking because she has high standards and excellent taste but this one didn’t live up to its potential. Each time I thought about the book while I was reading it itContinueContinue reading “Plum Dragon book club: The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go”

Staff book club: Spooky books

For October we opted to read scary books in honor of Halloween. I chose to continue my odyssey of rereading Ann Rice. The title I chose was The Witching Hour. This is a sweeping, epic novel that spends several hundred years in the life of a doomed family cursed by a spirit named Lasher. IContinueContinue reading “Staff book club: Spooky books”

Filmsite.org

There’s nothing like a good brawl and in researching the Academy Award winning films I came across the site http://filmsite.org where they list not only the best picture winners but also their opinions on who should have won. I’ll be consulting this list and watching many of the films they posit as the “shoulda couldaContinueContinue reading “Filmsite.org”

Of yoga masters and couch potatoes

My husband Scott has been taking yoga classes one night a week for about a year. Last month he added martial arts to his exercise repertoire and attends those classes once or twice a week. With my extra free time I decided to embark on a quest that I’ve been considering for several years but never found timeContinueContinue reading “Of yoga masters and couch potatoes “

Staff and BTBL Book Club: The Art of Racing in the Rain

This book was wildly popular when it came out several years ago but I missed its debut and was just introduced to this title last month. The story, in a nutshell, is about a family dealing with the sickness and death of the mother and subsequent custody battle over young Zoe between the father andContinueContinue reading “Staff and BTBL Book Club: The Art of Racing in the Rain”

The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

Earlier this year Plum Dragon read “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett and we’re reading it for BTBL in December. I’ll review it soon. So far, it’s the highest quality book I read in 2015. In fact, I liked it so much I didn’t want to read anything else by Patchett, feeling sure that such geniusContinueContinue reading “The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett”

Plum Dragon Book Club: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Dragon and I recently read the latest Supreme Court Justice’s memoir: My Beloved World. I knew nothing about Sotomayor’s history before reading this title and I feel like it gave an interesting and appropriate glimpse into the early life of such a powerful public figure. Sotomayor is the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants, her fatherContinueContinue reading “Plum Dragon Book Club: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor”