Opinion

Wendy Robards reviews the book "The Marriage Artist," by Andrew Winer.

You see them in coffee-shops, fingers poised above the keys of their well-worn laptops, their gazes intense. You know about the writers' way of life ... or do you?

Bernie and Sand have a look at the first showing of "The Three Musketeers" -- just because Milla Jovovich is in it.

Wendy Robards reviews the novel, "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett.

Bernie Pilarski sheds some light on the 1589 book "The Spiritual Combat."

Wendy Robards reviews the book "You Are My Only," by Beth Kephart.

Wendy Robards reviews the book "Falling Together" by Marisa de los Santos.

Bernie and Sand find themselves on opposite sides of the fence after viewing the movie "Real Steel."

Wendy Robards reviews the book "Touch and Go" by Thad Nodine.

Lydia Manx takes time out from her vampire series and reads "Henderson the Rain King" by Saul Bellow.

Sand hauls Bernie off to the movies to see "The Help."

Wendy Robards reviews the book "Salvage the Bones" by Jesmyn Ward.

Wendy Robards reviews the novel "Awakening" by S.J. Bolton.

Bernie Pilarski reviews the short book, "The Novice" by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Wendy Robards reviews the novel, "Rules of Civility," by Amor Towles.

Sand, with her fascination for the apocalyptic, drags Bernie to the movies to see "Contagion."

If you can't prove a motive, does that mean all motives are superstitions?

Wendy Robards reviews the book, "Darkness, My Old Friend" by Lisa Unger.

A heat wave and popcorn cravings lure Sand and Bernie to the movies to see "The Debt."

Wendy Robards reviews the novel "Mice" by Gordon Reese.

Lydia Manx reviews the book "The Eden Paradox" by Barry Kirwan.

Wendy Robards reviews "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters," edited by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten.

Wendy Robards reviews the book "The Long Song," by Andrea Levy.

Wendy Robards reviews the book "Everything Beautiful Began After, by Simon Van Booy.

Bernie and Sand head off to the movies for one last summer blockbuster, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."

Wendy Robards reviews the novel "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives," by Lola Shoneyin.

Sand and Bernie ride off into the sunset to see the movie "Cowboys and Aliens."

Wendy Robards reviews the book "The Tiger's Wife" by Tea Obreht.

Bernie and Sand skip merrily off to the movies in search of popcorn and comic book heroes, with Captain America waiting on the silver screen.

Wendy Robards reviews the book "Anthropology of An American Girl," by Hilary Thayer Hamann.