by Isabelle Allende, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Random House Audio We listened to this book as we traveled north to our summer home this year. The novel spans decades and crosses continents following two young people as they … Continue reading →
Lee and Andrew Child, 2020, Random House, LLC This might be the worst Jack Reacher book I have read so far. The Sentinel is apparently a system designed to thwart attempts to subvert the election system in the U.S. Reacher … Continue reading →
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 →
Zero Fall: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, by Carol Leonnig, 2021, Kindle Edition, Random House This book is pretty good as it gives a lot of detail about the problems within the Secret Service over the years. … Continue reading →
by Kenneth Slawenski, 2012, Random House eBook Edition While waiting to get my library copy of The Catcher in the Rye, which was the next book selection for our book club, I inadvertently borrowed this book thinking it was Catcher. … Continue reading →
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, original publication 1951, Back Bay Books Paperback edition 2010, Little Brown and Company, New York This book, for some reason, was chosen by our men’s book club. It was interesting to go back … Continue reading →
A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, by Donna Leon, 2017, Audiobook narrated by David Colacci, Recorded Books This is a well-crafted mystery that unfolds very slowly. Commissario Brunetti tries to take a little time off to regroup by going to a relative’s … Continue reading →
by Matt Haig, 2020, Kindle Version, Viking This was an interesting book for me. It’s about a young woman whose life is a mess, so she attempts to end it by taking some pills. She didn’t, however, take enough and … Continue reading →
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway, 1939, Kindle Hemingway Library Edition, Simon and Schuster This book is our book club’s selection for January of 2022. It was a difficult book for me to get into. The first 200 … Continue reading →
by Julian Sancton, Crown Publishing, 2021 When I started this book I thought it was going to be another book about Shackelton’s ill-fated adventure in Antarctica, but it turns out that this expedition was a totally different one. Rather than … Continue reading →