Thursday, June 7, 2012

Skios by Michael Frayn

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Dr. Norman Wilfred, world famous authority on the scientific organization of science, arrives on the private Greek island of Skios to give a...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce This is a book about faith and courage. Harold Fry was born unwanted and unloved, and...
Monday, April 16, 2012

The Coral Thief: An Novel by Rebecca Stott

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I picked this up because of it's historical setting, 1815 Paris, when Napoleon was on his way to St. Helena. The city is filled with pol...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Underground Time: A Novel by Delphiine de Vigan

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I think I have rarely read a book that was so depressing and unsatisfying. Mathilde is a battered woman, although the abuse is in the workpl...

Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal

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A young British woman, raised in America, has returned to London on family business. When war breaks out, she joins Churchill's staff as...

Paris in Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James

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Mary Bly is a Shakespeare scholar who writes Regency romances under the name Eloisa James. I thought it was interesting that she wrote this ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Brothers K by David James Duncan

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This was a Christmas present from my son. He told me I was always recommending books to him and he wanted to recommend a book he loves to me...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Dancing with Colonels; A Young Woman's Adventures in Wartime Turkey

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This is a collection of letters written during Havreberg's years working as a stenographer in Washington DC in 1936 and later in Ankara,...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd

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This is the third book in the Bess Crawford mystery series. I hadn't read the two previous books but this one stands alone quite well. B...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

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This is one of those stories that stays with you after you've finished reading it. It left me speechless, struggling to define my reacti...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Nat Tate by William Boyd

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Published in 1998, Boyd has written a very short biography of American abstract expressionist, Nat Tate, who committed suicide in 1960 after...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Bell by Iris Murdoch

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I’ve read two of Murdoch’s later books and, although well worth reading, I think her writing was still developing when she wrote The Bell. T...
Friday, July 8, 2011

New York by Edward Rutherford

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Epic, sweeping, panoramic are words that come to mind after reading this novel. Rutherford tells the story of New York City from the early D...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams

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First published in 1974, The Hair of Harold Roux won the National Book Award in 1975. I had never heard of Williams and feel like I’ve just ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Among the Missing by Morag Joss

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A bridge in Scotland collapses and three people, a pregnant woman running away from her husband, a man just out of prison for causing the de...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Robert Altman The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff

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This was given to me by a friend who is a real film aficianado and with whom I share a love of Altman films. Zuckoff interviewed family, fri...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Sticking Place by T. B. Smith

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This is not a mystery in the usual sense of the word. But I think anyone interested in mysteries would like this book. The story follows two...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carlson

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The story is of a family living in the rural south in the early 20th century. The father is a small town school teacher and he and his wife ...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Black Swan by Chris Knopf

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This is the fifth in the series of Sam Acquillo mysteries. I have not read the first four and found that this book stands well alone. Much o...

Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey

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Parrot is a lower-class English boy whose father is an itinerant engraver with no real home. After a series of misadventures, Parrot is sepa...