The Non-Accidental Reader, 2025: Untried authors, meh. Favorite authors, 5 star!

At the start of the year, I set out to read authors who were new to me, rather than falling back on my standard bearers. That does not mean you won’t see a title or two from John Irving, Jodi Picoult, or some of my other all-time favorites, but this year’s list introduced many new …

The Accidental Nester

Like most of America, or for that matter, most citizens of the world, we have become accidental “nesters” for the past month and will remain so, most likely for another month. Confined, within certain limits, to our homes, to the grocery store, to the pharmacy. Like many of our peers, the adjustment has not been …