Bonnie Brody
Bonnie has an M.Ed. in the field of language, culture, and learning and worked in that field for many years. Â She served as Director of Teacher Placement for the State of Alaska.
In 1992 she attained her M.S.W. and became a clinical social worker and marriage & family therapist, combining her two careers. Â She is in private practice as a therapist. Â Bonnie has been an advocate for the seriously and chronically mentally ill and those unable to speak up for themselves.
Since childhood, she has been an avid reader and loves to read fiction and nonfiction about contemporary issues.  She is a top 100 reviewer for Amazon.  When she is not reading, she is knitting, exercising,  traveling or gardening.
Bonnie has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction.com:
2014
- Casebook by Mona Simpson (4-15-14)
- Americanah by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie (3-15-14)
- Alena by Rachel Pastan (3-6-14)
- Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates (2-28-14)
- Foreign Gods by Okey Ndibe (2-19-14)
- Thirty Girls by Susan Minot (2-11-14)
- Before I Burn by Gaute Heivoll (1-29-14)
- The First True Lie by Marina Mander (1-21-14)
- Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty (1-14-14)
- Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan (1-4-14)
2013
- The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell (12-21-13)
- A Permanent Member of the Family by Russell Banks (12-19-13)
- Murder As a Fine Art by David Morrell (12-3-13)
2011 (Top Picks)
- Ed King by David Guterson (11-13-11)
- The Outlaw Album: Stories by Daniel Woodrell (11-1-11)
- Light from a Distant Star by Mary McGarry Morris (10-26-11)
- The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (10-21-11)
- Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam (10-12-11)
- The Best American Short Stories edited by Geraldine Brooks (10-5-11)
- Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber (9-15-11)
- The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (9-10-11)
- I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck (9-8-11)
- Calling Mr. King by Ronald De Feo (9-1-11)
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (8-23-11)
- Back of Beyond by C.J. Box (8-20-11)
- The Hypnotist by Lars Keplar (8-10-11)
- After Lyletown by K. C. Frederick (8-1-11)
- The Astral by Kate Christensen (8-1-11)
- Misterioso by Arne Dahl (7-13-11)
- The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollack (7-12-11)
- Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (7-6-11)
- The Storm at the Door by Stefan Merrill Block (7-1-11)
- The Reservoir by John Milliken Thompson (6-21-11)
- The Devil She Knows by Bill Loehfelm (6-11-11)
- Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson (6-8-11)
- Solace by Belinda McKeon (5-28-11)
- A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble (5-26-11)
- Long Drive Home by Will Allison (5-18-11)
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (5-12-11)
- Swim Back to Me by Ann Packer (5-9-11)
- The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert (5-01-11)
- The Disappeared by M.R. Hall (4-27-11)
- An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy (4-21-11)
- The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah (4-14-11)
- The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell (4-9-11)
- The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb (4-2-11)
- Three Stages of Amazement by Carol Edgarian (3-23-11)
- Lucifer’s Tears by James Thompson (3-17-11)
- When the Thrill is Gone by Walter Mosley (3-9-11)
- Satori by Don Winslow (3-7-11)
- Snowdrops by A.D. Miller (2-23-11)
- Wrecker by Summer Wood (2-17-11)
- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow (2-11-11)
- Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor (2-1-11)
- Caribou Island by David Vann (1-18-11)
- Give Me Your Heart by Joyce Carol Oates (1-17-11)
- A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates (1-13-11)
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter (1-6-11)
2010 (Top Picks)
- Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton (12-24-10)
- This Wicked World by Richard Lange (12-18-10)
- Daniel by Henning Mankell (12-15-10)
- The Tiger by John Vaillant (12-10-10)
- Eden by Yael Hedaya (11-29-10)
- Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (11-19-10)
- The Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga (11-13-10)
- The Handbook of Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone (11-02-10)
- Trespass by Rose Tremain (10-18-10)
- Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard (10-12-10)
- The False Friend by Myla Goldberg (10-08-10)
- The Best American Short Stories 2010 edited by Richard Russo (10-03-10)
- The Art of Losing by Rebecca Connell (10-01-10)
- The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass (09-24-10)
- Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer (09-14-10)
- My Hollywood by Mona Simpson (09-12-10)
- Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer (09-10-10)
- The Thing Around Your Neck : Stories by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie (08-29-10)
- The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard (08-24-10)
- I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (08-17-10)
- Legend of a Suicide by David Vann (08-15-10)
- Remedies by Kate Ledger (08-11-10)
- Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu (08-09-10)
- The Doctor and the Diva by Adrienne McDonnell (08-05-10)
- The Good Psychologist by Noam Shpancer (08-03-10)
- Savages by Don Winslow (07-31-10)
- Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (07-29-10)
- Faithful Place by Tana French (07-13-10)
- Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman (07-12-10)
- Everything by Kevin Canty (07-06-10)
- The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst (07-02-10)
- The Lovers by Vendela Vida (06-24-10)
- Learning to Lose by David Trueba (06-21-10)
- A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer (06-15-10)
- A Parallel Life by Ruth Hamilton (06-09-10)
- My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (05-26-10)
- The Night Monster by James Swain (05-25-10)
- Try to Remember by Iris Gomez (05-21-10)
- How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall (05-15-10)
- One More Theory About Happiness by Paul Guest (05-7-10)
- Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (05-1-10)
- Day for Night by Frederick Reiken (04-26-10)
- Pen/O’Henry Prize Stories 2010 edited by Laura Furman (04-19-10)
- Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamont (04-15-10)
- The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller (04-8-10)
- The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (04-6-10)
- Big Machine by Victor LaValle (03-26-10)
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano (03-18-10)
- So Much For That by Lionel Shriver (03-16-10)
- The Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (03-13-10)
- Lost by Alice Lichtenstein (03-10-10)
- Small Wars by Sadie Jones (03-06-10)
- Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert (02-27-10)
- Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (02-22-10)
- The First Rule by Robert Crais (02-20-10)
- Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg (02-17-10)
- Something Is Out There: Stories by Richard Bausch (02-10-10)
- Model Home by Eric Puchner (02-08-10)
- Summertime by J.M. Coetzee (01-31-10)
- Snow Angels by James Thompson (01-24-10)
- Bloodroot by Amy Greene (01-21-10)
- Lying with the Dead by Michael Mewshaw (01-14-10)
- The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter (01-06-10)
- Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin (01-04-10)
2009 (Top Picks)
- Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard (12-21-09)
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain (12-16-09)
- Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun (12-8-09)
- A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernieres (11-28-09)
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (11-21-09)
- Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (11-19-09)
- Night Navigation by Ginnah Howard (11-11-09)
- Lowboy by John Wray (11-11-09)
- Haiku by Andrew Vachss (11-03-09)
- A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock (10-24-09)
- Criminal Karma by Steven M. Thomas (10-24-09)
- Tell Me Something True by Leila Cobo (10-15-09)
- Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr (10-15-09)
- The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris (10-8-09)
- Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord (10-6-09)
- Where the Money Went by Kevin Canty (10-2-09)
- Disturbances in the Field by Lynn Sharon Schwartz (9-27-09)
- There Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (9-23-09)
- New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro (9-17-09)
- Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates (9-15-09)
- Trouble by Kate Christensen (9-5-09)
- Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon (9-2-09)
- Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy (8-26-09)
- Beginner’s Greek by James Collins (8-16-09)
- Mudbound by Hilary Jordan (8-9-09)
