Lawrence Osborne was a travel journalist and currently lives in Bangkok, but his latest novel Hunters in the Dark is not one that will inspire readers to head to Southeast Asia. Instead, it has a Heart of Darkness feel—where the language spoken by the natives is not one that can ever be learned by foreigners and behind nods and smiles is a deep-seated, unforgiving ... Read More...
The Expatriates
The Expatriates is Janice Y. K. Lee’s new novel about three American women living in Hong Kong: Margaret, a married mother of small children; Hilary, a corporate wife who longs for a baby, and Mercy, a recent college graduate. While each embodies a different phase of life they are on equal footing, living in a city where they don’t belong and where they are unlikely to stay ... Read More...
Marie Antoinette: Mix and Match
It's no secret I'm not a huge reader of non-fiction, but often I am led to it by fiction or movies about real life subjects. For whatever reason, I need to be led to non-fiction by shiny objects and visual effects. Plus, when I do read it it is often about the aristocracy (dreams of a previous life as an Empress, maybe?). So, it's no surprise that I've found Marie Antoinette to ... Read More...
The Guest Room
Chris Bohjalian always manages to tell a great story and in a way that encompasses its truth, but in The Guest Room he delves into the kind of subjects that make us squeamish—the underbelly of our society, a place most of us never hear about. Richard Chamberlain is a happily married investment banker who agrees to host his younger brother’s bachelor party at his home in ... Read More...
A New Year
Happy 2016, lovely readers! It's a new year! I hope you all survived the holidays with a minimum of stress and a maximum of peace and relaxation. We had a very quiet Christmas and New Year’s Eve but after the extended stress of finding a home in Seattle and then bringing that home into the 21st century, it was welcome. In the same spirit of remodeling and updating you may have ... Read More...
Favorite Debut Books of 2015
Apparently, I'm throwing out all the rules and fourteen favorites wasn’t enough for 2015! I'm a rebel, like that. Actually, I’m as surprised as you might be, but when I started looking back at my favorites and saw how many of them were debut authors I decided they needed a post of their own. I hadn't thought about it, but I read a lot of debut authors. A lot of GREAT debut ... Read More...
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