Paulette Jiles is a new author for me. In addition to being a novelist, she is a poet and memoirist. Her writing style is spare, but she can craft complete characters with few words. The novel is a new movie starring Tom Hanks (the reason I bought the book). The setting is five years after …
This was a lovely read. In her novel, The Nightingale, Ms. Hannah explores the relationship of sisters during a war. In this novel, we explore the complicated relationship between female friends. This book tracks the friendship of two friends from middle school to their mid-40’s. She has a deft way of creating characters who the …
This was a fun romp, if you enjoy twisting plots and international intrigue stories. John Corey is a former anti-terrorist professional who is now working as a much lower-level follower of suspicious Russians in the New York area. The story takes off from there and it is delightful.
This was a mystery set in Singapore in the early 1900’s. The main character, Harriet Gordon, is a young widow who lives with her brother, a priest, at a small private school for boys. The mystery begins with the murder of a wealthy man of the town. He had hired Harriet to type his memoirs. …
Caste was a really hard book to read and I am so very glad I did (twice). Ms. Wilkerson wrote the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Warmth of Other Suns about the great migration of African Americans from the south to the north and west after the failed reconstruction of the 1870’s. That was …
Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson – 388 pages Read More »
What a delight with such a strange beginning…A woman is told by her husband he is having an affair and wants a divorce, then is in a fatal accident. With such a tragic beginning, I wasn’t expecting such a funny, touching novel. Jo moves from London to a small town and takes over her Gran’s …
The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club by Gil McNeil Read More »
This was a book that wasn’t sure what it wanted to be. It could have been a good historical fiction novel set in Ceylon in the early 1900’s. It could have been a book about the income disparity and class divisions in that area. It could have been a story of love and the dangers …
The Tea Planter’s Wife by Dinah Jefferies – 413 pages Read More »
I have only read one other book by Stephen King and did not enjoy it. A friend, knowing this, suggested this one was different, so I gave it a read. It was worth the time! A young girl is on a hike with her recently divorced mother and teenage brother. They are arguing. She leaves …
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King – 262 pages Read More »
I’ve read all of David Baldacci’s books and have enjoyed them all. This is the third of the Atlee Pine series. Ms. Pine is a twin and when they were six years old, a man entered their home and took Atlee’s sister, Mercy. One of the reasons Atlee becomes an FBI agent is so she …
This is my second time reading this historical novel. I had lent it to a dear friend who loved it, so I decided to read it again. I treasured it the second time as much as the first. It is a story of a French family who, for the most part, lives through World War …
