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 →
by Arun K. Singh, M.D., with John Hanc, 2019, Center Street, Hachette Book Group, New York This is the story of a person who started his life as a delinquent boy in India who immigrated to America and became one … Continue reading →
by Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1985, Audiobook read by Claire Danes, released in 2012, Audible Studios As we began listening to this audiobook, I initially didn’t think I was going to like it. The beginning of the book is … Continue reading →
by Julie Orringer, 2010, Kindle Edition, Random House LLC I read this book while on vacation overseas when I had some long airplane flights to read it. It is a long, long book (786 pages). I think it would have … Continue reading →
by Fredrik Backman, 2016, Washington Square Press This book is supposedly about a small hockey town in Sweden, but it’s much more than that. It is about how groups and families interact with one another when something really bad happens. … Continue reading →
by Bill Browder, 2015, Simon & Shuster I thought this was a very good book, well-written and informative. There are some reviews on Amazon that fault the author for being self-absorbed. This book is about him and his experience with … Continue reading →
by Jay Winek, 2001, Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., New York This was a great book to read, primarily because the author used, in his own words, “vivid writing.” I’m not sure what he meant by this, but his prose is … Continue reading →
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, 1997, W.W. Norton & Company, New York This book is a detailes account of the events that led up to and took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The research that went into the … Continue reading →
by Tara Westover, Kindle version, 2018, Random House LLC This book is a harrowing memoir about a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional family in Idaho with an abusive father and brother. She was discouraged from attending school and … Continue reading →
by Amor Towles, 2016, Viking This is a lovely book, slow paced and articulate. It is a story of a nobleman in Russia who is declared a non-person by the Communist Party after the revolution and is sentence to live … Continue reading →