Book Review – The Book of Form and Emptiness
Author: Ruth Ozeki Publisher: Text Publishing This is a big book! And when I say big, I mean big because it is over 500 pages. I mean big in the…
Book Reviews
Book Review – Apples Never Fall
Author: Liane Moriarty – Publisher: Macmillan Australia – Stan and Joy Delaney have been married for almost 50 years. They worked together running a tennis school and raising their four…
Book Review – A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
Authors: Heather Heying and Bret WinsteinPublisher: Swift Press As you can tell from my reading list, fiction is my preferred genre, however there are times I like to dabble in…
Book Review – The Blue Line Down
Author: Maris LawyerPublisher: Hub City Press The Blue Line Down is a book I chose after seeing it pop up on Kirkus Reviews (one of the sites I look at…
Book Review – Beautiful World, Where are You
Author: Sally RooneyPublisher: Faber Sally Rooney wrote the very popular Normal People, which was less popular with me. I didn’t like how Marianne, the female protagonist, who was supposed to…
Book Review – Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball
Author: Robert Whiting – Publisher: Stone Bridge Press – I have never been to Japan, but it is the one place I would love to go. I find the culture…
Book Review – Malibu Rising
Author: Taylor Jenkins ReidPublisher: Hutchinson London Malibu Rising kept showing up on the list of books to read this summer. I kept putting it off because the last couple reviews…
Book Review – Not a Happy Family
Author: Shari LapenaPublisher: Bantam Press The Merton house is a mansion. Located in the Hudson Valley of New York, “on its vast expanse of lawn, presented like a cake on…
Book Review – Still Life
Author: Sarah Winman – Publisher: 4th Estate – Italy 1944. The Allied forces are waiting to enter Florence. Ulysses, a Private with the British Army is driving a jeep to…
Book Review – False Witness
Author: Karin Slaughter – Publisher: Harper Collins – Callie is fourteen and babysits for Trevor since Trevor’s parents, Buddy and Linda, are busy working. Callie’s older sister, Leigh, previously babysat…
Book Review – The Plot
Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz –Publisher: Faber & Faber – All Jacob Finch Bonner ever wanted to do is write. To be a great writer! His father, a tax attorney suggested…
Book Review – Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Author: Lisa Genova – Publisher: Simon and Schuster – Do you forget why you walked into a room? Do you forget names? Do you forget where you put your glasses?…
Book Review – Who is Maud Dixon
Author: Alexandra Andrews –Publisher: Hachette – Florence Darrow grew up in Florida but she has “escaped” and moved to New York City to try to become a writer. She works…
Book Review – Nomadland
I was surprised when I found out that Nomadland was a book. Last year there was so much talk about the movie, especially as it won Academy awards for best…
Book Review – One Two Three
Author: Laurie Frankel – Publisher: Henry Holt and Company – Nora gives birth to triplets, Mab, Monday and Mirabel. As each one is born another syllable is added to the…
Book Review – The Low Desert: Gangster Stories
I am not a fan of short stories … they always leave me unsatisfied. Just when I feel I am getting a grasp on the characters, the story ends and…
Book Review – Early Morning Riser
Author: Katherine HeinyPublisher: 4th Estate Sometimes you just want to read a book that will help you escape for a little while. One that isn’t going to set the world…
Book Review – Of Women and Salt
Author: Gabriela Garcia – Publisher: Flatiron Books – Of Women and Salt is about five generations of women, dating back to 1866 Cuba and ending in present day Florida. We…
Book Review – When the Apricots Bloom
Author: Gina Wilkinson –Publisher: Hachette – Huda and Rania were friends when they were younger. They made a blood oath to have no secrets. The punishment to breaking the oath…
Book Review – Saturdays at Noon
Author: Rachel Marks – Publisher: Penguin – Anger management classes meet Saturdays at noon. Alfie’s Dad, Jake, is going there because something happened with another parent at the school and…