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Reading Sue Monk Kidd
Our September pick, Sue Monk Kidd's book, The Invention of Wings, is a historical novel in the truest sense. Kidd takes real people and real events and puts them into a personal narrative. At a moment...
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Liberation Is Painful
Many characters are looking for freedom in our September selection, The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd. To some it comes, but not easily, and to others it comes only in whatever the hereafter...
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How Does Evil Become Normal?
After finishing The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, our September selection, I wanted to know more about the author and how she came to write this remarkable book. This is a universal and...
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Got Pizza?
It's hard to believe we are winding down our third year of CapRadio Reads. We have two more author events in 2015, and then we'll all take a month off to celebrate the holidays before coming back for...
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The Pleasure of Pizza
We read for pleasure, and we eat for pleasure, so why not combine the two? No, I'm not suggesting a diet of paper and ink. Reading a great cookbook can bring back memories of a childhood or dreams of a...
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Pizza, Books, Fun People ...
... what a perfect combination. Do you have your tickets to the CapRadio Reads Pizza Extravaganza? This is one event you can't miss. Donna Apidone and Tony Gemignani will be talking pizza, ovens and...
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Respect The Craft
Tony Gemignani, author of The Pizza Bible and 11-time World Champion Pizza Maker, shows his respect in his cooking and in his writing. The Pizza Bible, which is CapRadio Reads’ October selection,...
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It's National Pizza Month!
October is National Pizza Month, and boy, are we going to celebrate. Tony Gemignani, author of The Pizza Bible, will talk with Donna Apidone with the backdrop of CapRadio’s fabulous new garden....
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October 14, 2015
We've saved the best for last! With only one more month in the CapRadio Reads calendar for 2015, we have a remarkable grand finale. Janis Cooke Newman, the author of A Master Plan For Rescue, will be...
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October 21, 2015
Moon Shapiro is a bully. Harry Jupiter works with photos. How can you not love a book with minor characters who have such fantastic names? A Master Plan For Rescue, by our guest author Janis Cooke...
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October 28, 2015
Magical thinking is not just a tool for fiction writers. It is also a favorite topic of anthropologists and psychologists. The website skeptic.com points to the work of one such scientist: “According...
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We Gave You Something to Think About (Nov 4, 2015)
I live in a small town in the Sierra foothills. I was out doing some shopping and stopped in to several of my favorite stores. Since it's such a small place, we all know each other, and these folks...
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November 11, 2015
Out With The Old, In With The NewWhat a glorious year we have had at CapRadio Reads. We capped our year off with another stellar event, this time with Janis Cooke Newman and her book, A Master Plan...
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November 18, 2015
I cannot write a word this week without mentioning the attacks on one of my favorite cities, Paris. People around the world are expressing sadness, even anger, about what happened, but I feel that...
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25 November 2015
Six Degrees of Separation My career in the book business started at a little shop in Palo Alto, California, called Shirley Cobb's Books. It was a lovely store, we sold only hardcover books, and we were...
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December 2, 2015
Is your head filled with visions of sugarplums? We've survived Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. In our family, we have one new baby, and one more coming next week, but Christmas...
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December 9, 2015
This is how the cookie crumbles: As you know, Anthony Marra, author extraordinaire of the new book of interrelated short stories, The Tsar of Love and Techno, will be with us for CapRadio Reads’ third...
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December 16, 2015
It's so cold, it feels like Siberia. Well, probably not THAT cold. We know how cold Siberia can be, just by reading The Tsar of Love and Techno. We can feel the cold and smell the fumes in a former...
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December 23, 2015
This is the big week. You are putting the finishing touches on your wrapping, packing up the cookies and readying the sleigh to go over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house for your...
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The Writer as Artist
When I read a book that is truly excellent, it comes to me as a colorful painting. I can picture the characters in my head, and the landscape is so real, I think I could, if I had the artistic talent,...
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