Book Review: Leaving Before the Rains Come
“‘The problem with most people,’ Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the […]
Book Review: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller’s second book covering her family’s experience in east Africa. The […]
Book Review: The Man-eaters of Tsavo
The Man-eaters of Tsavo by Lt. Colonel J.H. Patterson, first published in 1907, steps the reader back in history to […]
Book Review: A Paris Apartment
A mystery inside a mystery. April Vogt, Continental furniture specialist with Sotheby’s, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the […]
Book Review: Scribbling the Cat
“The windows of the pickup were rolled down because we, in common with everyone else in this part of the […]
Book Review: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller’s first memoir covers her childhood in Africa, including stints at boarding schools far from her parents, ending with her […]
Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind
I’ve been reading so many memoirs and genre fiction books that it took me awhile to get involved in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s […]
Book Review: Deadly Little Secrets
In Loren Zahn’s second Theo Hunter mystery, Deadly Little Secrets, her protagonist, sometimes freelance journalist Theodosia Hunter, agrees to help […]
A is for Antananarivo
“Cochecitos” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by copepodo Check out the toy cars made from soft drink cans. From September 2003 until January 2004, I […]
Book Review: The Orchid House
Lucinda Riley’s New York Times 2012 best seller, The Orchid House, spans seven decades and two continents, and addresses the […]
Book Review: Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston revisits the three years she and her family spent in Manzanar, one of ten internment camps run […]
Book Review: The Liars’ Club
Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club set a new standard for memoirs when it came out in 1995. In it, Karr […]
Book Review: The Glass Castle
In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls tells of her unorthodox upbringing by her artist mother and inventor father, during which […]
Book Review: The City
Dean Koontz knows how to tell a story. And his readers know there will be some fantasy, magic, or horror […]
Book Review: Death at Bishop’s Keep
At the end of the 19th century, plucky, Irish-American Kathryn Ardleigh, orphaned as a child and raised in New York […]
Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns
During years of occupation by the Soviet Union and inter-tribal warfare in Afghanistan, two Afghan women of different generations and […]
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