by Ian McEwan, 2007, Audiobook narrated by the author, Random House Audio This is another of a series of audiobooks by accomplished authors that have disappointed me. I have enjoyed McEwan’ books such as Atonement and Machines Like Me, but … Continue reading →
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, and Dion Graham, Penguin Audio This book was apparently about a young man who was released from a reform school in Nebraska and his younger brother … Continue reading →
by Truman Capote, published posthumously in 2005 from a manuscript discovered years after the author’s death in 1984, Modern Library, an Imprint of Random House I was visiting Mt. Dora, Florida, a month or so ago and we went into … Continue reading →
by Claire Keegan, 2021, Grove Press, New York This is a nice little book which I would classify as a novella as it has only 114 pages. It’s about a man in Ireland who delivers coal to his customers. He … Continue reading →
by Jussi Adler-Olsen, 2007, translation 2011, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC The book is about an old detective in Copenhagen who is charged with creating a department to solve old unsolved crimes. He is given an office … Continue reading →
by Salman Rushdie, 2008, Audiobook released 2011, narrated by Sam Dastor, Recorded Books I don’t get it. The book started out with a tale of two men who were in an airplane that blew up in mid-air, but they somehow … Continue reading →
by George Orwell, 1949, 75th Anniversary Edition published in 2024 by Berkley, and imprint of Random House LLC, New York 1984 is the classic novel written in 1949 about a supposed dystopian society in 1984. When it was written, it … Continue reading →
by Ian McEwan, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Simon McBurney, Recorded Books This book is about a person who has a torrid affair with his 25-year-old piano teacher at age 14 and then goes on to lead a fairly miserable life. … Continue reading →
by Mark Sullivan, 2017, Lake Union Publishing This is a very interesting book about a boy/young man living in Milan durring WWII. It chronicles his experiences, first guiding Jews over the mountains to Switzerland, and later his role as a … Continue reading →
by Bernhard Schlink, book published 1999, translation by Carol Brown Janeway, Audiobook released 2008, narrated by Campbell Scott, Random House Audio The book started out with some steamy passages in which a fifteen-year-old boy has an affair with an older … Continue reading →