Morale
by John W. Gardner, 1978, W.W. Norton & Company, New York As is the case with many of the books I read, I didn’t really seek this book out as one I would really want to read. It was in … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Five-Star
Relative Danger: A Mystery
by Charles Benoit, 2006, Poison Pen Press I was looking for books on Morocco as we were going on a tour to that country. I searched our local library’s Libby app for “Morocco” and this book came up. I had … Continue reading →
The Lessons of History
by Will and Ariel Durant, 1968, Simon and Schuster, New York This is a wonderful 102 page book that the Durants published in 1968 after publishing their ten volume set, The Story of Civilization beginning in 1944. The book attempts … Continue reading →
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou, 2018, Knopf This, in my opinion, is a great book. The narrative is mostly chronological (as well as logical) and the author introduces new characters well. In addition, his sentence structure and language usage is very good. … Continue reading →
Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande, 2014, Picador What a depressing subject! And yet, this is a book I found I couldn’t put down. It is a book that everybody should read because, for many of us, our death or the deaths of our … Continue reading →
Night
by Elie Wisel, 1972 (new translation by Marion Wiesel, 2006), Hill and Wang, a division of Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York Compelling, horrifying, saddening – one individual’s story of his Holocaust experience. Also, I might add, beautifully written. Reading … Continue reading →
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen, 2006 This book is the real deal! The author, a female, has managed to get inside the head of her main character, Jacob, and capture his innermost feelings and thoughts when he was a young man in … Continue reading →
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York Middlesex is the book I received for Christmas last year that immediately went to the bottom of the pile as the holiday yielded for me many books that I … Continue reading →