I used to review books here. I don’t anymore. But when I came across The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi, I decided I couldn’t let the opportunity to share a few of the author’s words with others. So, this isn’t a review; it’s just random thoughts about an amazing book written by a womanContinue reading “The Baghdad Clock”
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Book Review: The Settlers
This is a longer than usual book review. It is also unusual for its content. This review is more about the relevance of the story for what we need to know about our own ancestors than it is about the story itself. Let me explain: Forty-five years ago, two elderly women in the church whereContinue reading “Book Review: The Settlers”
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 the Bride. The story is fiction so it didn’t happen, but, as is always the case with good storytelling, it could have happened. I know because I was there at the time of the story—1958—inContinue reading “Book Review: A Fireproof Home for the Bride”
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 to get to the heart of the story. After all, Wolfe writes very well. When I reached the inciting incident, what the Amazon summary calls “a freak accident in the Bronx,” I thought I wasContinue reading “Book Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities”
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 new place after having left New York two years earlier. Her father could no longer tolerate living in the city where Nicky’s mother and her infant sister, Clara, were killed in an auto accident, turningContinue reading “Book Review: Light on Snow”
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 Småland, southern Sweden, from New York where the group landed at the end of the first book in this series to Washington County in Minnesota, near Stillwater. The group make their way by riverboat, train,Continue reading “Book Review: Unto a Good Land”
Book Review: Sumerland
In Sumerland, M. Lee Buompensiero tells a fascinating tale that makes the case that family secrets are best uncovered and allowed to breathe. When secrets are stifled, the results are often worse for those the secret-keepers imagine they are protecting than would be the truth. This is the case for Kate Post, Sumerland‘s protagonist. TheContinue reading “Book Review: Sumerland”
Book Review: Revival
I am in awe. I want to give this book more than five stars, but I don’t want to have to recalibrate my other reviews. Five stars mean I love it, and I loved Revival. Revival is the first of Stephen King’s book I have read. After having seen several movies based on his books, I hadContinue reading “Book Review: Revival”
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, but she discovers instead an extended Inuit family eager for her to join them for a future that connects her with the past at the same time as it beckons her forward into a new life.Continue reading “Book Review: The Ivory Caribou”
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