An excellent year of reading with half of our books netting a rating of 4 or higher. This wasn’t by accident, and I’ll tell you why.
Tag: Book Reviews
Death at the Sign of the Rook is Kate Atkinson’s sixth installment of her Jackson Brodie series and fans of her work will love it. […] Read More
A joint review of the movie American Fiction and the novel that it is based on, Erasure.
After just a few pages into Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, I didn’t think it was for me. This was disappointing given how much I […] Read More
I first read Rabbit, Run by John Updike in college and remember loving it. A year or so ago one of my best reading buddies […] Read More
While technically Day by Michael Cunningham will fall into the category of COVID pandemic fiction, this one was beautifully and uniquely constructed—three days in three years, stretching from 2019 to 2021. The same day on the calendar, so each is a year apart.
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski is a beautifully written story set in a small Massachusetts town. It involves the lives of mothers, daughters, […] Read More
I’m talking about a weight loss book for the first time in more than 15 years of book blogging. This says something because I’ve been a chronic dieter since I hit my teens.
The Pole by J. M. Coetzee is at once moody and mysterious – full of tension. This novella centers around Beatriz and Wittold. She’s a […] Read More
It has been 14 years since Abraham Verghese published Cutting for Stone, a book that easily ranks in my top five favorites of all time. […] Read More