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…
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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…
Book Review – The Sanatorium
Author: Sarah PearsePublisher: Bantam Press If someone tells you that they have book for you to read, set in a hotel in the Alps during winter, just run away –…
Book Review – The Paris Library
Author: Janet Skeslien CharlesPublisher: Two Roads As you can guess from the title, the story is about a library in Paris, however it is about the American Library in Paris…
Book Review – The Beauty in Breaking
Author: Michele HarperPublisher: Riverhead Books The introduction of The Beauty in Breaking has a lovely paragraph describing Kintsukoroi, which is a Japanese art of repairing the cracks of broken pottery…
Book Review – Home Stretch
Author: Graeme NortonPublisher: Coronet This is the third novel by Graeme Norton – yes that Graeme Norton, I didn’t know that he was an author either. And besides fiction, he…
Book Review – The Four Winds
Author: Kristin HannahPublisher: Macmillan Elsa Wolcott, grew up with health problems and as such was confined to her room with books being her only friends. She was not as attractive…
Book Review – The Push: Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster?
Author: Ashley Audrain – Publisher: Penguin – Blyth is standing outside looking into a house to observe the family inside. The family consists of a father, a mother and two…
Book Review – The Wife Upstairs
Author: Rachel HawkinsPublisher: HarperCollins Jane comes from a bit of mysterious background. When she was younger, she was in foster care, with less than desirable foster parents. She has changed…
Book Review – The Midnight Library
Author: Matt HaigPublisher: Canongate Nora is depressed. We know that from the outset because the first line of the book is: “Nineteen years before she decided to die…” She feels…
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Memorial Author: Bryan WashingtonPublisher: Atlantic Reading this book takes a little getting used to. Conversations take place but there are no quotation marks (a technique used in the acclaimed book…
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Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists Edited by Bob Boughton, Danny Blackman, Mike Donaldson, Carmel Shute and Beverley Symons, SEARCH Foundation, 2020.New International Bookshop (www.nibs.org.au). Comrades! comprises stories of 100 rank…
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – Author: John le Carré – Publisher: Penguin – When John le Carré (aka David Cornwall) passed away back in December there…
Book Review – Homeland Elegies
Author: Ayad AkhtarPublisher: Tinder Press I hadn’t heard of Ayad Akhtar before reading this book. He is a screenwriter, a novelist and has written award winning plays. He was born…