We moved into our new house this week but it is still unfinished so my mental ability to write new reviews is shot. Until I can get back to the important things in life (and all this construction people GET OUT of my house) I am re-recommending, Dear Committee Members, one of my favorite books of 2014. It just came out in paperback and is witty and sharp. Deliciously humorous ... Read More...
I Saw a Man: A Novel
Michael knew Caroline’s job was dangerous when he married her. As a foreign correspondent her field of interest was the Middle East and while he was also a writer his inspiration came from stillness and hers from motion. They both told the stories of people But where Michael always retreated to his desk to tell his stories Caroline had simply moved on to the next. For ... Read More...
Girl at War: A Novel
Ana is from Croatia but now lives in America and attends college in New York. Despite having been in the U.S for a decade she suddenly finds herself overcome by memories of her life in Croatia in 1991—the beginning of the Yugoslavian civil war. These memories increase in intensity until she can no longer sleep at night. In desperation, she decides to go back to Croatia to try ... Read More...
In the Unlikely Event
As a young girl growing up in the 1970s there were few reading experiences more ubiquitous than discovering that author Judy Blume understood you. That she seemed, in fact, to be a teenage girl herself who was reaching off the page to make you feel less alone. I don’t know many women who did not read and relate to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Blume has gone on ... Read More...
The Household Spirit
In The Household Spirit, on a rural road in upstate New York, there sit two identical houses inhabited by two people who are anything but identical. Howie Jeffries is fifty-years old and has lived alone in his house since he and his wife divorced twenty years ago. He is a man with a huge heart wrapped in a persona of extreme shyness and an exterior that is so dour when he does ... Read More...
China Rich Girlfriend
As summer appears in all its sweltering glory China Rich Girlfriend is the sumptuous equivalent of a decadent ice cream in book format. The novel is Kevin Kwan’s follow-up to his biting and over-the-top debut Crazy Rich Asians about people with more money than brains and taste. In China Rich Girlfriend, much of the original cast is back, along with some new stereotypes ... Read More...
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