What never ceases to amaze me is the way one person can take the smallest notation from history, and turn it into a story of staggering depth and beauty that the rest of us would never have even considered. In this case, I’m referring to Maggie O’Farrell and her newest novel, Hamnet, the story of one real little boy in 16th century England, his mother, the bubonic plague, and ... Read More...
Songbirds: A Novel by Christy Lefteri
Sorry to start a review with a longwinded explanation, but…Songbirds was a new experience for me. I don’t remember ever starting a book and being so put off by the opening scene. Yiannis is a main character, living in Cyprus, a country that is in the direct migration path of millions of small, exotic birds. He’s a poacher, trapping them by the hundred in nets and then killing ... Read More...
Once There Were Wolves
Fourteen wolves are being released into four different sections of the Scottish Highlands in an effort to balance an environment that is dying. For Inti Flynn it’s the project of her life. She’s a wolf biologist and knows these animals intimately. She also knows that they will not be welcomed by the area sheep farmers who see them as a threat. This despite the fact that the ... Read More...
The Comfort of Monsters
Milwaukee in the summer of 1991 was focused on one thing only—the arrest and investigation of Jeffrey Dahmer. The scope of his crimes dominated not only the local news but national as well. For Peg and her family, it meant the disappearance of her younger sister got no media attention and only limited help from the police. The Comfort of Monsters moves between that hard, heavy ... Read More...
We Begin at the End
Somehow, in the past two weeks I stumbled into two novels that were antithetical to my usual, lighter summer reading. Both are standouts, but require the right head space. Monday was The Paper Palace and today it’s We Begin at the End—the story of Walk, a small-town chief of police, and Duchess, a teenage girl who’s developed a tough persona to deal with the bad hand that is ... Read More...
The Startup Wife: A Novel
Asha has her life figured out. She’s a brilliant coder and has just landed a spot in a highly coveted tech lab at MIT, where she’s working on developing the holy grail of algorithms—instilling artificial intelligence with empathy. It’s her sole focus in life until she runs into Cyrus, her high school crush and everything changes. They fall in love, marry, and inadvertently ... Read More...
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