A Separate Peace
by John Knowles, 1960, The Macmillian Company This was always one of my favorite books and I saw it in my bookcase so I thought I would read it again. I believe the books hold on me was due to … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Four-Star
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
2021, by Walter Isaacson, Kindle version, Simon & Shuster I was amazed by this book and the discoveries that it described. I was also impressed by the accomplishments of the female scientists, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuel Charpientier among others. Our … Continue reading →
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis, 1922, with an afterword by Mark Schorer, a Signet Classic, published by the Penguin Group, New York We found an old paperback copy of Babbitt in our home and I decided to read it. The text of … Continue reading →
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
by Hyeonseo Lee, 2015, Kindle Edition, William Collins If her story is all true, this is a great book about an incredible journey to freedom. Each chapter ends with, Oh, No! What Next? Just when you think she is finally … Continue reading →
Thief River Falls
by Brian Freeman, 2020, Thomas & Mercer, Seattle This is a fast-paced thriller that is about a woman who has made it big as a writer of mystery thrillers, this one taking place in her home town of Thief River … Continue reading →
Mila 18
by Leon Uris, 1961, Doubleday This book is fictional account of the Warsaw Uprising during WWII but it is based on journals that were kept by some of the Jews during that time. The Germans attempted to keep their actions … Continue reading →
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 This book was our local book club’s choice for January of this year I thought it was an odd choice as most of the books we read are current non-fiction books. As I read the … Continue reading →
The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides, 2019, Audiobook narrated by Jack Hawkins and Louise Brealey, Macmillan Audio The plot of this book is basically about a psychologist who want to treat a patient in a mental facility who was committed after being accused … Continue reading →
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
by Adam Higginbotham, 2019, Simon & Schuster Excellent book although somewhat difficult to digest due to all the individual characters involved and their Russian names which make it hard to follow. I was not aware of the causes of the … Continue reading →
The Kings Depart, The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution
by Richard M. Watt, 1968, Barnes and Noble Books. Quite a few years ago my son showed me a box of books that he had been assigned to read when he was studying for his master’s degree in Eastern European … Continue reading →