How many of these books have you read? List challenges abound on social media from the BBC to BuzzFeed and even PBS. The groups of […] Read More
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The History of Loneliness by John Boyne was an interesting book to be reading right now. Boyne is best known for The Boy in the Striped […] Read More
I’ve been mulling over this review of An American Marriage for a while, wanting to write it in a way that does it justice. To […] Read More
It should be obvious from the title that what I consider a wonderful beach read is not what most people call a “beach read.” For […] Read More
There is a rash of World War II literature. In our last book club annual selection long list, there were enough books that had we […] Read More
Amor Towles wrote Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow – two of my favorite books from last year. When I learned that he […] Read More
A few years back, my book club put together its collective Top 100 Books. I remember in that exercise, that I had a hard time […] Read More
Since creating this list, I have come to learn that I neglected a significant number of years from 1918 – 1947 – and hence books […] Read More
I realize this post is two days late, but since I’m still seeing some residual “Best of 2017” on TV, I decided I’d go ahead […] Read More
Rare is it that I give a book five stars but readily say, this book isn’t for everyone. But I’m saying that with A Little […] Read More