Category: Commentary

  • Take a look — Margaret Maron review

     By Linda Brinson In my debut book review for the Greensboro News & Record today, I look at Margaret Maron’s latest Deborah Knott mystery, Christmas Mourning.  Maron’s series, as her many fans know, is a lot of fun. Her main character, Deborah Knott, is a district court judge in a county near Raleigh, N.C. She has 11…

  • Little Boy Blues — Check it out

    Question for the day: If your friends publish their memoirs, does that mean you’re getting old?             I don’t know the answer to that. But if you haven’t seen the October issue of Our State magazine already, be sure to check out my review of Little Boy Blues: A Memoir, by my old (but not…

  • Hello from Linda

    Hi, this will soon be my book blog.  I was the book-review editor of the Winston-Salem Journal for 25 years.  Since August, that book-review page is history, and so is my editorship. However, I’ve still been reading. And publishers have kindly been sending me review copies. So, as soon as I figure out what I’m…