The Baghdad Clock
I used to review books here. I don’t anymore. But when I came across The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al […]
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
