Book Review: The Settlers
This is a longer than usual book review. It is also unusual for its content. This review is more about […]
Book Review: X
I’ve been a fan of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone series since I first read K is for Killer in the early […]
Book Review: A Fireproof Home for the Bride
I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed reading a book more than I enjoyed reading Amy Scheibe’s A Fireproof Home for […]
Book Review: China to Me: A Partial Biography
Emily Hahn’s China to Me: A Partial Biography is precisely the type of memoir I had hoped to write 40 […]
Book Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities
Because of the length of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, I was willing to read the first 75 pages […]
Book Review: Light on Snow
In Light on Snow, 12-year-old Nicky Dillon and her father, Robert, struggle to set up a new life in a […]
Book Review: Reach for Joy
In Reach for Joy, Tessy Reyes (a pseudonym) tells of her 30-year marriage to an independent survivalist who controlled her […]
Book Review: Unto a Good Land
Vilhelm Moberg’s Unto a Good Land continues the story of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson’s band of Swedish emigrants from […]
Book Review: Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s treatise Between the World and Me takes the format of a series of letters from the author to […]
Book Review: Sumerland
In Sumerland, M. Lee Buompensiero tells a fascinating tale that makes the case that family secrets are best uncovered and […]
Book Review: Revival
I am in awe. I want to give this book more than five stars, but I don’t want to have […]
Book Review: The Ivory Caribou
Recently widowed Anne O’Malley undertakes genealogical research into her father-in-law’s past as a way to remain connected to her deceased husband, […]
Book Review: The Emigrants
Eight adults, each for their own reasons, reach the point they feel abandoning their homes in Sweden in favor of […]
Book Review: Say It Like Shakespeare
Tom Leech’s Say It Like Shakespeare presents communication tips for business people through comparison with Shakespeare’s language. While the subtitle […]
Book Review: Wild Ginger
Anchee Min’s Wild Ginger relates a love story in the midst of turmoil told from the point of view of a […]
Book Review: The Genie Who Had Wishes of HIs Own
Margaret Harmon’s 22 21st-century fables provide lessons about greed, hubris, jealousy, pride, procrastination, living through others, idealism, creativity, wasted opportunities, optimism vs […]
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