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
Tag: literary fiction
I bought The Fact of a Body after hearing about it on the Literary Disco podcast*. My plan had been to give it my dad […] 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
My reading style has changed this year. Not so much what I read, but how I read. I posted a few weeks ago about some […] Read More
Twelve pages from the end of Rules of Civility, Amor Towels, in the voice of Tinker Grey, describes Manhattan as “so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full […] Read More
I’m a little late, but I’ve just finished the wrap up of our book club’s 2016-17 reading year. We started doing something a little different […] Read More
Set just after the Russian revolution, in A Gentleman in Moscow, a former state sympathizer is sentenced to house arrest in the posh Moscow Metropol […] Read More
It’s that time of year when my book club is making its selection for the 10 books it will read in the upcoming year. We […] Read More