I have just finished Ken Follet's new mega-novel, Fall of Giants. It is excellent. This is the sort of tale usually accompanied by the adjective "sweeping". I know many of you loved this author's 12th century novels (Pillars of the Earth and World Without End). This new …

Besides the traditional family turkey, the other high point of my Thanksgiving weekend was a book called The Help by K. Stockett. These days, it seems I am the last one to hear of any good "reads", but this one was was gripping. It is sort of an upstairs/downstairs …