BookMark / Weekly Book Reviews
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BookMark features weekly book reviews submitted by anyone who likes to read and lives within the WPSU-FM listening area. Tune in at 4:30pm on Wednesdays and at 9:30am on Sundays.
New releases and books by Pennsylvania authors are preferred, but classics will be considered if the reviewer is able to shed new light on the book.
01-19-2012
Irish writer Sebastian Barry brings us this fictional history of an Irish-American family told by its matriarch.
12-22-2011
Cheryl Bazzoui, an author and Bradford resident, reviews a young adult Christmas novel. Christmas with Tucker, by Greg Kincaid, is about a young boy struggling through his first Christmas after the death of his father with the help of a neighbor’s dog.
12-08-2011
Paige Cooperstein, a Penn State University Park student, reviews Rebecca Rasmussen’s debut novel. Rasmussen received one of her Master of Fine Arts Degrees at Penn State.
11-27-2011
Looking for a great book about food this Thanksgiving? Anthony Bourdain called this novel, "Outstanding!" Let our reviewer, Sheila Squillante, tell you more about this culinary journey that travels from India to France.
11-10-2011
Hear how some Pennsylvania cities fared in a new book by the architecture critic and University of Pennsylvania professor, Witold Rybczynski.
10-27-2011
Retired Lock Haven University Professor, Carolyn Perry, came out with her memoir this year. It details her survival of Hurricanes Agnes and Katrina. Our reviewer, Marjorie Maddox, is the director of the Creative Writing program at Lock Haven University.
10-13-2011
Pamela Kavanaugh, a former science teacher and high school librarian, brings her love of science and reading together when she reviews the debut novel of Cornell physicist, Paul McEuen. That novel is Spiral.
09-29-2011
If you’re gearing up for major league baseball playoffs, you’ll want to read Rebecca Alpert’s new book, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball.
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University Park, PA 16802
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