by Gabrielle Zevin, 2014, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill This is a really nice story about a bookseller on the fictional Alice Island off the coast of Cape Cod. There is a little bit of romance, some mystery, and a … Continue reading →
by Jane Harper, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Stephen Shanahan, Macmillan Audio I don’t think this is Jane Harper’s best work, although I have read only two of her books. The first book I read was her first book The Dry, … Continue reading →
by Bonnie Garmus 2022, Doubleday, New York This is a story about a woman in the 1950’s who has a passion for science and wants to conduct research in chemistry. Unfortunately, she runs into many challenges, the primary one being … Continue reading →
by Alexander McCall Smith, 2017, Pantheon This is a delightful book about a man who breaks up with his girlfriend and then travels to Tuscany to finish writing a book about Tuscan food and wine. He finds that when he … Continue reading →
by Alan Moorehead, originally published in 1963, Kindle version, 2010, Skyhorse This book is about an exploration expedition into the interior of Australia in 1860. Much of Australia had never been explored at that time and this was one of … Continue reading →
by David Kertzer, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Arthur Morey, Random House Audio In 2020 the Vatican opened up numerous documents in their archives relating to communications and meeting between the Vatican and the Italian and German governments before and … Continue reading →
by Louise Penny, 2005, Audiobook narrated by Ralph Cosham released in 2014, Macmillan Audio This is the first of Louise Penny’s mysteries with Inspector Armand Gamache in the Quebec town of Three Pines. There is an intricate plot revolving around … Continue reading →
by Herbert Hoover, edited by William Nichols, 1964, Random House, New York This book was in a box of books that I inherited from my grandmother back in the 1990’s. I hadn’t read it until recently when I decided to … Continue reading →
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, 2014, Public Affairs, A Member of Perseus Book Group, New York I noticed this book in my son’s library and thought it would be interesting to read as I didn’t know the details of the American … Continue reading →
by Rosemary Mahoney, 2007, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company This is a somewhat odd book written, I think, by a somewhat odd woman. Who would want to do what she did? Row down the Nile River by herself … Continue reading →